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Total number of records: 18

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature4
Brotherton Collection4
University Archive1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
Student Newspapers1
International Textile Collection1
Leeds Russian Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters4
english literature3
english poetry2
world war, 1914-19181
scientists1
lgbtq+1
lesbian1
folklore1
bacteriology1
english fiction1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ross, Alan (1922-2001)1
Pybus, Rodney (1938-)1
Oakley, Cyril Leslie (1907-1975)1
Sharp, Clifford Dyce1
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1
Unemployment Assistance Board (1934-)1
Uab1
The London Magazine1
Smith, Stevie1
New Statesman1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 190017
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 199914
Up to latest4

Archive Collection

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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Review [The Review] magazine, correspondence and literary papers associated with the magazine including material relating to its symposium 'The State of Poetry'.

1962-1972

The archive of The Review was acquired for the Brotherton Collection in 1996. The Review was one of the most successful literary ‘little magazines’ and enjoyed a ten year period of publication f...

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PAPERS OF MARIE HARTLEY (1905-2006), LOCAL HISTORIAN

20th century

Consists of material collected by Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby and Ella Pontefract, the authors of a range of publications featuring the places, people and their occupations and environment and tracing...

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London Magazine Editions Archive

The London Magazine

1965-1979

The archive material contained within this collection relates to the publication of various volumes and dates from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, during the editorship of Alan Ross. The bulk of the ...

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Czesław Lejewski Collection

Lejewski, Czesław (1913-2001)

1932-1995

The collection includes Lejewski's manuscript notes and formulae created during his research together with drafts and typescripts of his published works. It contains typescript drafts and reprints of...

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Papers of Dame Fanny Waterman

1904-2016

The material comprises the personal archive of Dame Fanny Waterman, covering her career as a piano teacher, speaker, author and organiser of musical events. The archive also reflects personal milesto...

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Literary Papers and Correspondence of Rodney Pybus

Pybus, Rodney (1938-)

1950-2001

The Literary Papers and Correspondence of Rodney Pybus held in Leeds University Library comprises 19 boxes of papers relating to Pybus’s poetry collections, translations and other writing, and to hi...

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Cyril Leslie Oakley correspondence and papers

Oakley, Cyril Leslie (1907-1975)

1922-c.1972

Cyril Leslie Oakley was born in 1907 and educated at Portsmouth and Westminster. He was a student of Harold Leigh-Sharpe’s at Chelsea Polytechnic (University of London) and co-authored a paper for P...

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Archive Series

The O'Hear Collection: Overview of Adire and Yoruba Batik, Research Notes and Bibliography

2017

The documents attached to this record were written by Ann O’Hear in 2017 to aid research into the O’Hear Collection of West African textiles, and to reference the work undertaken during documentat...

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Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers

Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)

c.1900-1980

Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...

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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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