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Total number of records: 2824

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Books and printed items1966
Indexes417
Archives380
People and organisations43
Textiles11
Objects6
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection971
Quaker Collection360
Liddle Collection221
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse173
English Literature109
Letters Database88
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society80
Leeds Russian Archive68
Ripon Cathedral66
Feminist Archive North64

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SubjectCount
world war, 1914-1918208
peace109
society of friends45
war39
justices of the peace35
socialism28
sermons, english23
dissenters, religious19
english poetry16
popish plot, 167816

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PlaceCount
Great Britain271
Europe45
Soviet Union32
France28
Yorkshire (England)27
United States22
Germany20
Russia13
China12
Netherlands10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain78
Anonymous63
Society of Friends57
Great Britain. Parliament54
Burrough, Edward (1634-1662)53
Mitchison, Naomi43
Independent Labour Party (Great Britain)39
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (West Riding of Yorkshire)36
Church of England34
Howgill, Francis (1618-1669)28

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Up to 19991249
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Archive Collection

Authors' World Peace Appeal, papers and correspondence

1951-1954

Comprises: (1) Correspondence arranged by surname A-Z; (2) Invitation letters; (3) Minutes and agendas of meetings; (4) Bulletins; (5) Various other administrative papers

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Archive Collection

Society of Friends Peace Committee related papers and other peace movements collected by Joseph Sturge

Sturge, Joseph (1818-1874)

1850-1927

Comprises letters, reports, press cuttings, pamphlets and other material concerned with peace movements in Britain from before the outbreak of the First World War until the 1920s

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Archive Series

'Peace' and 'Life'

1954

This envelope contains two early poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland, 'Peace' and 'Life'. One is undated and the other is dated 5th March 1954.

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