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Total number of records: 5895

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Books and printed items4954
Archives941

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Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection2788
Brotherton Collection371
English Literature128
Leeds Russian Archive114
Herbert Read Collection54
Quaker Collection18
Cookery Collection4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Leeds Poetry3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185895
photographs325
letters151
conscientious objectors106
soldiers84
postcards79
diaries62
somme, 1st battle of the, france, 191662
propaganda, anti-german53
world war, 1939-194552

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PlaceCount
Great Britain241
Germany182
Belgium101
France60
Europe54
Soviet Union39
United States38
Russia31
Louvain (Belgium)20
Turkey13

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain. Army121
Great Britain101
Great Britain. Royal Navy85
Lloyd George, David (1863-1945)74
Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey Viscount (1862-1933)57
Bryce, James Bryce Viscount (1838-1922)55
Bairnsfather, Bruce (1887-1959)55
Great Britain. Foreign Office46
Asquith, H H (1852-1928)45
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)44

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From 16001
From 17001
From 1800466
From 19005299
From 2000128

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Up to 18991
Up to 19995641
Up to latest253
Archive Collection:
MS 149
c.1907-1945
Comprises: (1)-(4) Draft of 'Medieval Heresy and the Inquisition' [published 1920]; (5)-(8) Notes on the Inquisition; (9)-(11) Draft of 'The Spanish Inquisition' [published 1932]; (12)-(16) Notes on B...
Archive Collection:
MS 1684
1850-1927
Comprises letters, reports, press cuttings, pamphlets and other material concerned with peace movements in Britain from before the outbreak of the First World War until the 1920s
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Kipling
1883-1918
Comprises: 1) 'Kipling's Message', an anti-German address delivered by Rudyard Kipling at Folkestone on February 15, 1918, printed by W. H. Smith and Son, London (6 ff.); 2) a facsimile copy of a lett...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c New Statesman
1914-1983
The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1020
1890s-1910s, 1980s
Richard Bartmann "Picture Postcard Encyclopaedia Russia" (Erlangen, 1986) /1/. Photocopies of Richard Bartmann's articles on the history of Russian postcards, international postcard exchanges with Rus...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1040
[1960s]
Photocopies of: [?] Blampied "'HMS Nairana': North Russian Expedition, 1919" /1/; [?] "Sergeant Don Kelly RFC/RAF" /2/; correspondence between Leslie H Kemp and Air Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw (3, ...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1054
1900s-1980s
TSS of M S Raslovlev (Raslovleff, Raslowleff): "Nouveau Choix de Poésies Françaises" (Paris, 1972) /1/; "Buckelrösschen" (extract from German adaptation of P P Ershov "Konek-Gorbunok" and film scen...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1062
[1910s?]-1937
Letters and postcards: Walter Augustin to Robert Ehrmann (1917) /1/; Max Breit to [Robert Ehrmann] (nd) (view of Freiburg im Breisgau) /2/; David [?] to Sania and Shura (2, 1918) (portraits of David [...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1063
1972
Video-cassette of `Sailors of Fortune' feature on Oliver Locker-Lampson and Royal Naval Air Service armoured car division in Russia, 1916-1918 /1/. List of film sequences in 1 /2/. B Perrett, A Lord "...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1082
1910-1919
Photocopies of: photograph of Moscow Football League team, 1910 (cutting from "Russkii Sport") /1/; D Dickinson "An Appeal Addressed to the British Colony of Petrograd and to Englishmen throughout Rus...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1084
1918-1919
Photocopy of Mary Gillott's diary, HM Hospital Ship Kalyan, Archangel, 1918-1919 /1/. Transcript of 1 /2/. Facsimile of Mary Gillott's photograph album, Archangel, 1918-1919 /3/. Negatives of 3 /4/...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1099
1900s-1990s, 2009
PHOTOGRAPHS (prints, copy prints, negatives, lantern slides, caption notes: British Embassy staff, Petrograd, 1918 /1-5/; British submariners, Russia, 1916 /6-7/; B S Lombard's wife and daughter (?) /...