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Total number of records: 704

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives694
Objects6
Books and printed items4

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection335
Brotherton Collection220
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection138
Leeds Russian Archive96
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive45
English Literature28
Leeds Poetry26
Quaker Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
photographs704
world war, 1914-1918325
letters144
portraits93
photography80
british61
postcards60
family21
theatre16
russians15

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy39
London, United Kingdom26
Turin, Italy5
Leeds, United Kingdom5
Rome, Italy4
Florence, Italy4
Boston, Usa3
Nice, France3
Milan, Italy3
Birmingham, United Kingdom3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hogg, Jabez19
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)10
Ford, Emily Susan (1850-1930)3
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)3
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn2
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)2
Puleston, John Henry1
Parker, John Henry (1806-1884)1
Robertson, Douglas Argyll1
Macdougall, Francis Thomas1

Count of Earliest date

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From 17006
From 1800235
From 1900460
From 20003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899170
Up to 1999516
Up to latest18

Archive Collection

Philip O'Connor, letters and papers with some of his writings

O'Connor, Philip (1916-1998)

1916-2003

Comprises the personal papers and documents of Philip O'Connor; his correspondence with various literary figures (including Michael Hamburger, Stephen Spender, Gregory Stephenson, and David Thomson), ...

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Workshop Theatre productions, photographs, programmes and an acting text of Etherege's The Man of Mode

c.1968-1998

Comprises miscellaneous theatre programmes for Workshop Theatre productions dated between the early 1970s and 1998, many dozens of black and white and colour photographs of productions, some architect...

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Keith Douglas Collection

Douglas, Keith (1920-1944)

1881-2000

The archives include the following: a large collection of photographs, drawings and paintings by Douglas; 94 books owned by him, 10 of which have autograph additions; 9 holograph poems by Douglas; pro...

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Jacob Kramer Archive

Kramer, Jacob (1892-1962)

1910-1988

Comprises: (1) Autograph correspondence, comprising 216 letters and postcards, written either by or to Jacob Kramer or between third parties concerning his work, dated 1913 to 1988, held in 21 envelop...

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Cottingley Fairies Collection

1920-2010

Comprises: (1) BOOKS: 11 books (and 1 video) related to the case of the Cottingley Fairies, 1973-1998; (2) JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1920-1992: including the 1920 and 1921 issues of the Strand Magazine in whi...

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Personalia

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1947-1997

2 boxes containing mixed personal items and papers belonging to Jon Silkin. Includes the following: - Diaries for 1966 (letters inserted, incl. Lionel Miskin, Falmouth School of Art), 1977-78, 1979,...

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CUTHBERT-SMITH, Austin Godwin (1897-1976)

1910s-1970s

Notebooks containing A G Cuthbert-Smith's autobiography /3-15/ [Notebooks numbered 1-2 missing from family collection]. Modern transcript of Russian and Soviet sections of 3-15 /16/. Newspaper article...

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CARR, Henry Lambton (1899-1988)

1880s-1992, 2022

Cassettes of H L Carr's recollections of childhood in Archangel, schooldays in England, Allied Intervention in North Russia, diplomatic service in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, 1900s-1950s (recorded 19...

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PLATTS Collection

1900, 1931, 1960s-1980s

Photographs and negatives of coronation mug, 1896, /1-3/, Modern prints and negatives of photographs of Russian Imperial study? by Rentz & Schreider, 1900 /4-8/, Modern prints and negatives of photogr...

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BERNARD LONG Collection

[1880s-1900s]

Photographs of St Basil's Cathedral and Tsar-bell, Moscow, and chapel on site of future Church of the Resurrection, St Petersburg /1-3/.

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BAGENAL Collection

[1850s]-1988, 1996

Photographs and postcards (including some modern prints, slides and negatives) of: members of the Muir, Mirrielees and Philip families in Russia /1-18/; Degunino Chemical Works (near Moscow) /19-52/; ...

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LUHRS Collection

[1910s], 1986, 1991

Luhrs family-history notes /1/. Modern print of photograph of Luhrs family house, Archangel /2/. Photocopy of letter from Lev Leibson, St Petersburg, to Eugenie Fraser, Edinburgh (1991) /3/.

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