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Total number of records: 387

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items312
Archives75

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection150
English Literature90
Cookery Collection21
Leeds Russian Archive17
Herbert Read Collection11
Quaker Collection6
Liddle Collection5
Leeds Animation Workshop2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
women387
letter71
women's rights15
home economics14
queens14
femmes10
feminism8
conduct of life8
education7
world war, 1914-19186

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain32
France13
England5
Soviet Union4
Nubia2
Russia2
South Africa2
Scotland2
Europe2
United States2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sala, George Augustus53
Leeds Animation Workshop27
Strickland, Elizabeth (1794-1875)11
Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874)11
Strickland, Elizabeth11
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)8
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)7
More, Hannah (1745-1833)7
Chapone, Mrs Hester (1727-1801)6
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)6

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170064
From 1800164
From 1900139
From 200020

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 179962
Up to 1899147
Up to 1999151
Up to latest27

Archive Collection

Little Owl Society, Leeds Archive

1879-2002

Comprises: (1) Journal, 2 vols, 1879-1937; (2) Album containing photographs of Little Owl members, 1879-1987; (3) Minute books, 21 vols, 1879-1999; (4) Treasurer's note books, reports and cashbook, 18...

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Leeds Animation Workshop Archive

1972 - 2020

The Leeds Animation Workshop (LAW) archive documents the history and workings of Britain’s first all-female led animation collective. The Workshop began in 1978 and is still active, working from a t...

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Album of signatures presented to Lady Morris by members of Leeds University Ladies' Tea Club on the occasion of her retirement

Morris, Mary De Selincourt

1963

The volume is bound in green leather with the university crest embossed on it in gold. A letter from the donor, Peter Miller, to the Librarian, Mr R.P. Carr, dated 1st June 1990, is attached to the ba...

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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The position of the mother in the family in its legal and scientific aspects

Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth Morgan (1843-)

1884

"Read at the annual congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at Birmingham in 1884, and published by permission of the council" - Title p.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.1)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.2)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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Dictionnaire historique portatif des femmes célebres (v.1)

Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Published anonymously. By J.F. de Lacroix.

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