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Total number of records: 390

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items353
Archives35
Art items1
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection194
English Literature78
Herbert Read Collection70
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection32
Leeds Russian Archive26
Cookery Collection6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
Ripon Cathedral3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
literature390
criticism47
english literature32
poetry30
art23
russian literature13
gift giving10
publishing9
family9
illustration9

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy8
London, United Kingdom6
England4
London (England)2
Great Britain2
Soviet Union2
Russia2
Sheffield (England)2
New York (N.Y.)1
Nice, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baillet, Adrien (1649-1706)13
Sallengre, Albert-Henri De (1694-1723)12
Sallengre, Albert-Henri De11
Goujet, Claude-Pierre (1697-1767)11
Bouterwek, Friedrich (1766-1828)11
Desmolets, Pierre Nicolas (1678-1760)11
Goujet, Claude-Pierre11
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim (1743-1820)9
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)8
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)8

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 160015
From 170061
From 1800108
From 1900192
From 200013

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 169915
Up to 179960
Up to 1899100
Up to 1999196
Up to latest19

Archive Collection

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...

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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...

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Archive Art Collection

Le mystère de Jean l'Oiseleur : monologues

Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963)

1924

A series of thirty self-portraits created by Jean Cocteau during a melancholic period in a hotel in Ville-sur-Mer, many created under the influence of opium, including handwritten text in the margins,...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

1825-1898

Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1814-1856

34 handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, beginning with his imprisonment at Surrey Jail from 1813 to 1815 and going on to contain references to publications and events...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1852-1858

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke dating from 9 December [1852?] to 4 February [1858]. The letter dated 9 December [1852?] is a copy in Mary Cowden Cl...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1840-1856

Fifteen handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, dating from 20 February 1840 to 14 October [1856], with ten undated. The letter of 2 October 1856 is a copy in Mary Cowden C...

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1996, Poland

March 1995 - July 1996

Correspondence and programme concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a tutorial as part of a programme for Collegium Invisibile. (Collegium Invisible, Warsaw. May- July 1996) Includes correspondence...

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Apr, 1999, Copenhagen

Feb 1999 - Apr 1999

Zygmunt Bauman's correspondence with Dansk forfatterforening - Danish Author Association regarding “Literature in exile meetings" 22-25 April 1999.

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Press cuttings on the 'Concordance to Shakespeare'

1844-1881

Seven press cuttings related to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke's 'Concordance to Shakespeare'.

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Shakespeare

1835-1890

Preparatory notes for Mary Cowden Clarkes publications 'The Concordance to Shakespeare', first published in parts in 1844-45 and 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales', fi...

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