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Total number of records: 2408

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	2371
Textiles	31
Archives	6

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	262
English Literature	82
International Textile Collection	31
Cookery Collection	10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	6
Ripon Cathedral	4
Herbert Read Collection	4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	3

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
french literature	49
biography	48
bio-bibliography	47
courts and courtiers	41
political science	38
hundred years' war, 1339-1453	32
encyclopedias and dictionaries, french	30
sociology	30
finance, public	24
finance	20

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
France	2408
Great Britain	227
Europe	98
Paris (France)	63
Italy	48
Spain	22
Netherlands	20
Germany	19
Burgundy (France)	17
Flanders	16

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
France	172
France. Convention Nationale, 1792-1795	93
France. Assemblee Nationale Constituante 1789-1791	79
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793	65
France. Assemblee Nationale Legislative, 1791-1792	59
Academie Des Sciences	56
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610	52
Petitot, Claude Bernard (1772-1825)	52
Petitot, Claude Bernard	52
Voltaire (1694-1778)	51

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	33
From 1600	164
From 1700	1145
From 1800	1066

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	31
Up to 1699	165
Up to 1799	1079
Up to 1899	1133

Archive Collection:
YAS/MD386

DECLARATION OF NATIONALITY

5 Nov 1896

Declaration by Albert Edward Leak of Lille, son of George William Leak and Elizabeth Machan, both of Leeds, renouncing French citizenship in favour of British citizenship

Archive Judaica File:
MS ROTH/247

Estratto Dei Registri delle Deliberazioni. [Proclamation , 22 March 1812, the Central Consistory of the Jews of the French Empire to their Italian co-religionists regarding the Napoleonic reorganisation, et cetera (certified copy)].

[1812?]

Italian title supplied by cataloguer from heading on document. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 247. Invocation: Isaiah 2...

Archive File:
BC MS NCC/9/5

Sketchbooks

1822-1835

Ten sketchbooks belonging to Edward Petre Novello, dating from his time as a student at Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury and the Royal Academy of Arts and the period afterwards, including travels to Franc...

Archive Print Item:
Economics G-0.064/CLE

Histoire du système protecteur en France depuis le ministère de Colbert jusqu'à la révolution de 1848 : suivi de pièces, mémoires et documents justificatifs

Clément, Pierre i.e. Jean Pierre (1809-1870)

1854

Archive Print Item:
Modern History D-0/MER

Histoire de France : depuis Clovis jusqu'àu règne de Louis XVI (v.1)

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien (1740-1814)

1802

Published also under title: Portraits des rois de France.

Archive Print Item:
Modern History D-0/MER

Histoire de France : depuis Clovis jusqu'àu règne de Louis XVI (v.2)

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien (1740-1814)