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Total number of records: 474

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives317
Books and printed items157

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection394
English Literature331
Leeds Russian Archive29
Herbert Read Collection19
Leeds Poetry17
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
Liddle Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english fiction474
letters307
english poetry290
english drama267
english literature267
librettos16
married women6
german fiction5
russian fiction4
english prose literature4

Count of Place

PlaceCount
England7
Middle East2
Midlands (England)1
Palestine1
Rome (Italy)1
Kurdistan1
Canada1
Isle of Wight (England)1
Lake District (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848)20
Blavatnik Honresfield Library13
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)11
Acton Bell11
Newby, Thomas Cautley6
Billing, J6
Charles Hunt, London6
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)5
Morris, William (1834-1896)5
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)5

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170014
From 180078
From 1900375
From 20004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17997
Up to 189968
Up to 1999366
Up to latest30

Archive Collection

Thomas Blackburn Archive

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1893-1988

The items in this collection relate to Thomas Blackburn's personal life, his career as a poet and his teaching career. Comprises: typescripts, autograph manuscripts and other papers relating to Thoma...

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Francis Berry Archive

Berry, Francis

1931-1994

Literary archive of Francis Berry. The collection is separated into two series: Correspondence and Literary papers. Correspondence files arranged alphabetically by correspondent, following Berry's ...

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John Mackendrick Collection

Mackendrick, John (1946-1979)

1970-1994

The collection includes drafts of plays by Mackendrick, photographs of his productions, newspaper reviews, posters, flyers and correspondence.

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Roy Fuller Archive

Fuller, Roy (1912-1991)

1941-1990

Comprises: (a) 2 boxes (Boxes 1-2) containing Roy Fuller's autograph manuscript notebooks, comprising 25 numbered notebooks of poetry dated 1941-1983, 2 unnumbered notebooks of his reviews of works by...

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Keown (Anna Gordon), literary papers with related material, including some correspondence

Keown, Anna Gordon (1902-)

1934-1959

Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of some of Anna Gordon Keown's literary works, including at least 9 short stories or plays, dated ca. 1948-1955, and held in a red folder; at ...

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Algernon Charles Swinburne manuscripts

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1851-1999

Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...

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Glyn Hughes, literary papers with related material

Hughes, Glyn

1975-1999

Comprises: (1) 39 autograph manuscript notebooks containing many drafts of Glyn Hughes' poems, research notes for novels, and numerous personal notes, partly dated between ca. 1979 and 1999, with so...

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William Trevor, three literary manuscripts with a postcard

Trevor, William (1928-2016)

c.1973

Comprises: (1) Three autograph typescripts of literary works by Trevor with many manuscript revisions, namely fragments of two plays and one piece of fiction, undated and not identified; and (2) An au...

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Kevin Crossley-Holland Archive

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1946-2011

This collection of the literary papers and correspondence of Kevin Crossley-Holland represents the wide range of his interests and achievements. It covers his own poetry, translations and re-tellings ...

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W.G. Curtis Morgan, literary papers and publications with some letters and personal and financial items

Morgan, W G Curtis

1922-1991

Comprises: (1) 3 boxes of literary papers by Morgan, including (a) Mainly typescript drafts with autograph manuscript revisions of 12 plays, namely, 'The Squire of Darkfield' (4 drafts), 'The Jurado R...

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Drama

1971-2003

This sub-fonds contains material related to dramatic works written by Kevin Crossley-Holland's.

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Editorial work

1965-2016

This sub-fonds contains correspondence, notes, drafts and material related to Kevin Crossley-Holland's editorial work.

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