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Total number of records: 28551
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Collection group | Count |
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Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive | 12620 |
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 5392 |
International Textile Collection | 2103 |
Cookery Collection | 1756 |
Brotherton Collection | 1434 |
Liddle Collection | 993 |
University Archive | 941 |
University Art Collection | 876 |
Student Newspapers | 779 |
Art and Antique Market | 588 |
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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO VARIOUS PROPERTIES
1631-1816
In Kirkby Malzeard, Grewelthorpe, Misses, Swetton, Patrick Brompton, East Appleton, Hudswell, Thirlby, Bowes, Thorp-under-Stone, Knayton, and Bewerley. There are also appointments of Gregory Elsley as...
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)
1887-1913
This extensive collection (about 10,000 images) was donated to the University in 1913 by Godfrey Bingley himself and is an archive of his life's work. The collection comprises black and white image...
Bennett Family Correspondence
Bennett family
c.1840-1866
The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...
Louis Compton Miall Collection
Miall, L C (1842-1921)
23 Jan 1860-May 1930
The collection includes works by Louis Compton Miall on science, Latin, gardening and education. It also encompasses some letters with one written by Charles Darwin and another from T. H. Huxley. It...
Poetry and Audience, typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by various authors originally published in 'Poetry and Audence'
c.1954-1972
This collection contains typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by 33 authors, submitted for publication in the Leeds student literary magazine 'Poetry and Audience.' Also included is a small amoun...
DEEDS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
1 Feb 1585 - 21 Sept 1928
Relating to Acomb, West Ayton, Burn [parish of Brayton], Carthorpe, Firby [parish of Westow], Gate Fulford, Hanlith, Harrogate, Knaresborough (especially the Donisthorpe family), Leeds, Rathmell, Scar...
DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ECCLESHILL, IDLE, LEEDS AND WROSE
16th century-19th century
Includes a notebook with recipes for preserving shoe soles and for soup.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript verses on the slave trade
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
1792
Manuscript of ‘Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiae occidentalis’ (Ode on The West-Indian Slave Trade) submitted by Coleridge for the Browne Medal for classical composition in his first year at ...
Lyriques choisis de poètes français
Sangorski, Alberto (1932-); Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896); Vicaire, Louis Gabriel Charles (1900-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor
1917-1917
Manuscript in French in modern calligraphic Gothic bookhand on parchment, containing the poems of Paul-Marie Verlaine and Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire in the hand of, and illuminated by, Alberto Sang...
A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same
Fisher, Clement (1539-1619); Bayley, Walter (1529-1593); Willoughby, Edward (16th century-16th century); Stephens, Marly (17th century-17th century)
c.1580
Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is...
DEEDS
17th century-18th century
Deeds relating to Barnsley, Ecclesfield, Greasbrough, Hemsworth, Horton [parish of Bradford], Rawmarsh, Ryhill [parish of Wragby], Thurnscoe and elsewhere 17th-18th century
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...