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Total number of records: 379

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives292
Books and printed items87

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection326
English Literature298
Leeds Russian Archive29
Herbert Read Collection17
Leeds Poetry16
Liddle Collection2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english fiction379
letters286
english poetry283
english drama263
english literature263
librettos16
russian fiction4
theater programs3
ghost stories2
illustration of books2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Middle East2
Palestine1
Midlands (England)1
Lake District (England)1
Isle of Wight (England)1
Kurdistan1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)4
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)4
Tracy, Lorna2
Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)2
Douglas, Norman (1868-1952)2
Lawrence, D H (1885-1930)2
Dickens, Charles, 1812-18702
Meredith, George (1828-1909)2
Hatton, Thomas (1876-1943)2
Silkin, Jon2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1900375
From 20004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1999351
Up to latest28
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Rushforth
1967-2006
Original deposit of 43 boxes includes: (a) "Kindergarten" drafts, including sections titled 'Shadows of the Living' and 'The Other Side of Silence', TS and galley proofs of final version, with relate...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Barstow
1956-1996
Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Barstow's writings, including: 'A brother's tale'; 'A kind of loving'; 'A raging calm'; 'A season with Eros'; ' About the novel'; 'Ask me t...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Boyd
1984-1987
Comprises the autograph manuscript notebook of William Boyd in which he drafted his short story entitled 'Alpes maritimes', dated 'Tuesday. 16. Oct. 1984.' at the beginning, followed by notes written ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Bradford
c.1940-2019
Includes typecript copies of her novels, some with manuscript annotations, printers' proofs, published novels, press cuttings and magazines featuring articles about Taylor Bradford, papers relating to...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Beaty
1939-2004
Comprises: (a) 2 boxes of correspondence between David and Betty Beaty and several publishers, friends, and others, mainly concerning their respective publications, dated between 1939 and 1998, inclu...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland
1946-2011
This collection of the literary papers and correspondence of Kevin Crossley-Holland represents the wide range of his interests and achievements. It covers his own poetry, translations and re-tellings ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Fuller
1941-1990
Comprises: (a) 2 boxes (Boxes 1-2) containing Roy Fuller's autograph manuscript notebooks, comprising 25 numbered notebooks of poetry dated 1941-1983, 2 unnumbered notebooks of his reviews of works by...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Hughes
1975-1999
Comprises: (1) 39 autograph manuscript notebooks containing many drafts of Glyn Hughes' poems, research notes for novels, and numerous personal notes, partly dated between ca. 1979 and 1999, with so...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Keown
1934-1959
Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of some of Anna Gordon Keown's literary works, including at least 9 short stories or plays, dated ca. 1948-1955, and held in a red folder; at ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Berry
1931-1994
Literary archive of Francis Berry. The collection is separated into two series: Correspondence and Literary papers. Correspondence files arranged alphabetically by correspondent, following Berry's ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Mackendrick
1970-1994
The collection includes drafts of plays by Mackendrick, photographs of his productions, newspaper reviews, posters, flyers and correspondence.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Morgan
1922-1991
Comprises: (1) 3 boxes of literary papers by Morgan, including (a) Mainly typescript drafts with autograph manuscript revisions of 12 plays, namely, 'The Squire of Darkfield' (4 drafts), 'The Jurado R...