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Total number of records: 5174

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items4270
Archives904

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection2531
Brotherton Collection339
English Literature123
Leeds Russian Archive97
Herbert Read Collection49
Quaker Collection16
Cookery Collection4
Leeds Poetry3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185174
photographs315
letters145
conscientious objectors102
postcards75
soldiers61
diaries56
somme, 1st battle of the, france, 191652
english wit and humor, pictorial49
war poetry, english41

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain199
Germany138
Belgium88
Europe50
France45
Soviet Union38
United States36
Russia24
Louvain (Belgium)19
Turkey11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain. Army101
Great Britain. Royal Navy79
Great Britain72
Lloyd George, David (1863-1945)69
Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey Viscount (1862-1933)56
Bairnsfather, Bruce (1887-1959)54
Bryce, James Bryce Viscount (1838-1922)47
Asquith, H H (1852-1928)44
Great Britain. Foreign Office44
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)42

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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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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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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SEVIER Collection

1910s-1960s

Sevier and Hynam family-history documents /1-5/. Letters from G N Taube to William Sevier (6, 1964-1968) /6-11/. Modern prints of photographs of: Spasskii copper mine /12/; Moscow Kremlin /13-14/; Ruh...

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HOMERSHAM Collection

1910s, [1980s?]

Photocopies of annotated WWI Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz postal items /1-4/.

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JEAKINS Collection

1875-1876, [1900s], 1928, 1971

Slides of picture postcards of Moscow /1-3/. Photocopies of 4 types of blank Russian letter-cards /4/. Margot Lawrence "Shadow of Swords; A Biography of Elsie Inglis" (London, 1971) /5/. Digital...

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