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Total number of records: 55

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society19
Leeds Russian Archive10
University Archive5
English Literature3
Brotherton Collection2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters5
education2
refugees, jewish1
politics1
refugees, political1
russians1
scholars, assistance to1
nobel prizes1
russian literature1
librarians1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)2
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)2
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1
Todd, Ruthven (1914-1978)1
Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)1
Pybus, Rodney (1938-)1
Cole, George Douglas Howard (1889-1959)1
Bomford, Philip1
Boyle, Lady Beatrice1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180020
From 190035

Count of Latest date

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Up to 18992
Up to 199942
Up to latest11

Archive Sub-collection

Part 1: Collective Exhibitions

1964-1978

This first part of a complete catalogue refers to collective exhibitions; further parts will deal. with one-man exhibitions, a picture lending scheme and other matters.

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Yorkshire Schools' Exploring Society, papers

1967-1988

These papers were very kindly deposited in the Brotherton Library by the Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society, through the good offices of Mr D Horton, in July 1989. The Society was founded in 1964 and...

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BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (2)

1916, 1922-2016

I A Bunin letters, postcards, telegrams, etc to V N Bunina (294, 1922-1947) (also diary note on Riga hotel headed paper, [2 May 1938] /154/; unfinished letter to G N Kuznetsova (21 August 1928) /170/)...

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BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (1)

1920-1953

I A Bunin's so-called 'Paris Archive' was mostly created between the writer's emigration from Russia in 1920 and his death in Paris in 1953. Its main features are literary manuscripts, typescripts and...

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BUNINA, Vera Nikolaevna (1881-1961) (1)

1920-1961

V N Bunina's archive dates almost entirely from the period between her emigration from Russia in 1920 and her death in 1961. It comprises her literary works, notes, diaries, personal documents, corres...

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ZUROV, Leonid Fedorovich (1902-1971)

1905-2013

A photograph of L F Zurov taken in about 1905 is the oldest item in this collection, while the most recent items include papers and other personal effects found in his wallet after his death. The majo...

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Valuations

1849-1908

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Additional papers of Frank Beckwith

Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)

1774-1960

This accrual comprises 7 boxes. Box 1 includes typed copies of articles from the 'Gentleman’s Magazine' c.1790, relating to the history of the Baptist church with notes and references, 2 folders of...

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ZEMGOR Archive

1910s-1970s

Zemgor is a Russian emigre welfare organisation based in Paris. It originated in Russia during World War I, when two rural and urban local-government and public-service umbrella bodies, Zemskii soiuz ...

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Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth

Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)

c.1945-1981

1141 pamphlets held in 40 pamphlet boxes on 5 shelves. Sorted and boxed by broad subject. Possibly the bequest of Lord Boyle, ca.1981 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H....

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Baildon waterworks

1858-1892

Agreements, acts, plans, accounts

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