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Total number of records: 4958

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Coins	4426
People and organisations	291
Textiles	163
Objects	52
Archives	14
Books and printed items	12

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Coin Collection	4422
International Textile Collection	163
Quaker Collection	8
Brotherton Collection	7
Medieval Manuscripts	3
English Literature	3
Cookery Collection	2
University Archive	1
Herbert Read Collection	1
Feminist Archive North	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
society of friends	4
quaker church buildings	2
religious tolerance	1
theology, doctrinal	1
toilets	1
lord's supper	1
baptism	1
baptists	1
baths	1
letter	1

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Rome	923
Alexandria, Egypt	218
Antioch, Syria	194
Egypt	163
Constantinople	160
Trier	144
Arles	114
Sisak	113
Lyons	82
Antioch	80

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Constantine I (306-37)	203
Elagabalus	98
Severus Alexander	90
Gordian III	82
Caracalla	77
Constantius II (324-61)	73
Trajan	70
Shenzong, 1068-1085, of the Northern Song Dynasty	67
Philip I	67
Antoninus Pius	65

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	1242
From 100	687
From 200	1098
From 300	943
From 400	111
From 500	209
From 600	137
From 700	45
From 800	45
From 900	79
From 1000	230
From 1100	1
From 1700	3
From 1800	2
From 1900	3
From 2000	47

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	1140
Up to 199	650
Up to 299	1302
Up to 399	939
Up to 499	102
Up to 599	237
Up to 699	130
Up to 799	31
Up to 899	49
Up to 999	103
Up to 1099	275

Archive Collection

[Greek Gospels]

McLeish, Charles (1949-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

10th century

Manuscript in Greek Minuscule on parchment, containing the text of the Gospels, with lectionary divisions in margins. Imperfect: wanting numerous leaves and with some sections of the text supplied lat...

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Paros Hoard

AD 117–AD 254

A hoard of 253 Roman sestertii allegedly from Paros, bought in Athens in 1947. See S.Glenn 'A third century hoard of sestertii from Paros', Numismatic Chronicle 182 (2022), pp. 375–394.

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Key Texts Box 01

1968 -2004

Key texts from the Women's Liberation Movement. (pamphlets and papers; selected by FAN trustees in 2022) 1968 Notes from the first year June 1968 New York 1968 Draft Manifesto for Socialist Women...

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