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Total number of records: 5893

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items4954
Archives939

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection2786
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

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185893
photographs325
letters151
conscientious objectors105
soldiers84
postcards79
somme, 1st battle of the, france, 191662
diaries61
propaganda, anti-german53
world war, 1939-194552

Top 10: Place

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

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800466
From 19005299
From 2000128

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18991
Up to 19995639
Up to latest253

Archive Collection

Arthur Stanley Turberville notebooks and papers

Turberville, Arthur Stanley (1888-1945)

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...

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Society of Friends Peace Committee related papers and other peace movements collected by Joseph Sturge

Sturge, Joseph (1818-1874)

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

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Rudyard Kipling, related items

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

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...

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New Statesman, associated correspondence and literary papers 1914-1919 and 1960-1983

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...

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BARTMANN Collection

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...

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SHEPPARD Collection

[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, ...

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RASLOVLEV, Mikhail Sergeevich (1892-1987)

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...

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EHRMANN, Robert (1883-1946)

[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 [...

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LOCKER-LAMPSON, Oliver (1880-1954)

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 "...

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LUNN, Philip (1886-1940)

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...

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GILLOTT, Mary (1889-1926)

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/...

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LOMBARD, Rev Bousfield Swan (1866-1951)
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LOMBARD, Rev Bousfield Swan (1866-1951)

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 (?) /...

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