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Total number of records: 179843
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 48714 |
| English Literature | 16613 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 14509 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 11512 |
| Cookery Collection | 8553 |
| Liddle Collection | 4075 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 3710 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 3537 |
| Quaker Collection | 2914 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 1629 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 4595 |
| Great Britain | 1447 |
| Church of England | 1136 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 854 |
| Catholic Church | 673 |
| Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) | 611 |
| De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969) | 579 |
| Virgil | 566 |
| Society of Friends | 538 |
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 526 |
1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)
1890s
Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...
Stand Magazine Archive
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997); Baro, Gene; Smith, Ken (1938-2003); Lamb, Catherine; Brown, Merle E (1925-); Gardner, Raymond; Brunner, Edward; Rudolph, Anthony - Menard Press; Marshall, Brenda; Tracy, Lorna; Fink, Howard; Wilding, Michael (1942-); Ober, Robert; Gardner, Val; Heal, David; Wedde, Ian; Kureczko, Victor; Pybus, Rodney (1938-); Jones, Ag; Astley, Neil; Bradshaw, David C A; Wise, David; Keen, John; McDuff, David (1945-); Kates, Jim; Blackburn, Michael (1954-); Cleary, Brendan; Morgan, Richard; Joseph, Lawrence; Kingsbury, Jack; Evans, Lynn; Kingsbury, Pam; Alderson, David; Paterson, Evangeline; Emerson, Jessie; Schenker, Daniel; Kay, Amanda; Hinton, Brian; Robinson, Peter (1953-); Arthurs, Jack; Lewis, Peter; Ayton, Michael; Bennet, Peter (1942-); Mitchell, Adrian (1932-2008); Quick, Margaret; Davies, Ioan; N Coe, Richard; Harrison, Tony (1937-); Matthews, Geoffrey (1920-1984); Rex, John
1952-2012
This collection represents the archives of Jon Silkin's Stand magazine, from early days in London from 1952 to 1957, through its relaunch from Leeds in 1960 and move to Newcastle in 1965, through to i...
Alfred R. Orage book collection
1896 - 1992
Books from the collection of Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1834), journalist and intellectual, including long runs of The New Age, edited by Orage from 1907 to 1924, and New English Weekly, which Orage f...
George Wilson Knight book collection
1800-1994
Print material owned by or relating to, George Wilson Knight
Alberta Vickridge book collection
1922-1947
Print material owned by or relating to, Alberta Vickridge
Rayner Heppenstall book collection
1944-1988
Print material owned by or relating to, Rayner Heppenstall