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Total number of records: 25315
Count of Record type
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 24062 |
| English Literature | 7856 |
| Leeds Poetry | 4270 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 1898 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 1721 |
| Rudolf Laban Collections | 961 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 906 |
| Medieval Manuscripts | 609 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 185 |
| Medical Collections | 10 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 906 |
| Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 676 |
| Sala, George Augustus | 504 |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | 288 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 257 |
| Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) | 234 |
| Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn | 216 |
| Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977) | 216 |
| Laban, Rudolf Von (1879-1958) | 197 |
| Rudolf Jean-Baptiste Attila Von Laban | 197 |
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Denis ApIvor Archive
1933-1996
The Denis ApIvor Collection was acquired in 2001 by Special Collections, University of Leeds when ApIvor, who was in his eighties at this time, agreed to donate his remaining manuscripts and related m...
Mattison Collection
Mattison, Alfred (1868-1944)
1790s-1963
The Alf Mattison collection is the archive of Leeds socialist and local historian Alf Mattison (1868-1944). His major achievement was to amass a collection documenting the development of British soci...
Ben Turner - Manuscript Poems
1937
Manuscript and typescript copies of 12 of Ben Turner's poems (held in one gold box). The volume also includes a manuscript copy of a letter to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, dated 2nd November 1937, concerni...
Ben Read Archives
Read, Benedict (1945-2016)
1929-2010
Includes papers relating to Ben Read’s work with the Public Monument Sculpture Association, the Historic Churches Committee, the MLA, the New Leeds Art Club and as Director of the Masters in Sculptu...
T.B. Duncan. J.P., Lord Mayor, City of Leeds vol.1
1919-1920
Scrapbook on T. B. Duncan, Lord Mayor of Leeds, from 1919-1920. Contains news cuttings, invitations, menus for many of the events he attended, meeting notices, a letter from Douglas Haig, orders of s...
Sir Angus (McKay) Fraser Collection
Fraser, Angus M
1562 - 2001
Personal papers, printed works, manuscripts, correspondence and research material referencing Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in UK and Europe as collected by Sir Angus (McKay) Fraser in the course of h...
Romany Collection
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)
c.1551 - c.2007
Archive and print items referencing the history, culture and representation of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Consists of three sub-collections; 1) Romany 1: The col...
Novello Cowden Clarke
1739-1966
The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...
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...
Literature 17th and 18th century (Brotherton Collection)
17th century - 18th century
The manuscripts range from large verse miscellanies and commonplace books to individual leaves containing only a single poem. The poems similarly range over a wide corpus of verse composition, from we...
Language Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)
1651-1745
Manuscripts on the English, French and Spanish languages, including works on English grammar.