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Total number of records: 26601

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives23843
Books and printed items2389
Art items308
Objects55
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection25348
English Literature7980
Leeds Poetry4292
Herbert Read Collection1899
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1721
Rudolf Laban Collections1060
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections906
Medieval Manuscripts642
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse185
Medical Collections10

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters1294
english poetry992
poets, english669
letter663
pre-raphaelites661
letter writing544
correspondence366
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)339
english drama332
english literature327

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom304
Genoa, Italy295
England89
Nice, France33
Rome, Italy25
Cumbria24
Florence, Italy23
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Vienna, Austria22
Paris, France21

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)911
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)676
Sala, George Augustus505
Crossley-Holland, Kevin288
Laban, Rudolf Von (1879-1958)263
Rudolf Laban263
Rudolf Jean-Baptiste Attila Von Laban263
Rudolf Johann Baptiste Attila263
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)257
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)234

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From 1400519
From 1500108
From 1600150
From 1700384
From 18005555
From 190016372
From 20002226

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Archive Collection

Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)

1100-1499

Leeds University Library holds medieval manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century.

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Denis ApIvor Archive

1933-1996

The Denis ApIvor Collection was acquired in 2001 by Special Collections, University of Leeds when ApIvor, who was in his eighties at this time, agreed to donate his remaining manuscripts and related m...

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No 8, Co-operative Union leaflet
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Mattison Collection

Mattison, Alfred (1868-1944)

1790s-1963

The Alf Mattison collection is the archive of Leeds socialist and local historian Alf Mattison (1868-1944). His major achievement was to amass a collection documenting the development of British soci...

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Ben Turner - Manuscript Poems

1937

Manuscript and typescript copies of 12 of Ben Turner's poems (held in one gold box). The volume also includes a manuscript copy of a letter to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, dated 2nd November 1937, concerni...

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Ben Read Archives

Read, Benedict (1945-2016)

1929-2010

Includes papers relating to Ben Read’s work with the Public Monument Sculpture Association, the Historic Churches Committee, the MLA, the New Leeds Art Club and as Director of the Masters in Sculptu...

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T.B. Duncan. J.P., Lord Mayor, City of Leeds vol.1

1919-1920

Scrapbook on T. B. Duncan, Lord Mayor of Leeds, from 1919-1920. Contains news cuttings, invitations, menus for many of the events he attended, meeting notices, a letter from Douglas Haig, orders of s...

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Felix Mendelssohn Collection

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)

1823-1868

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Brotherton Collection Charters

1280-1850

These documents were acquired for the Brotherton Collection in the 1980s by Wendy Childs, Emeritus Professor in Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds, for the purposes of teaching palaeogr...

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Sir Angus (McKay) Fraser Collection

Fraser, Angus M

1562 - 2001

Personal papers, printed works, manuscripts, correspondence and research material referencing Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in UK and Europe as collected by Sir Angus (McKay) Fraser in the course of h...

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Romany Collection

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

c.1551 - c.2007

Archive and print items referencing the history, culture and representation of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Consists of three sub-collections; 1) Romany 1: The col...

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Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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Cottingley Fairies Collection

1920-2010

Comprises: (1) BOOKS: 11 books (and 1 video) related to the case of the Cottingley Fairies, 1973-1998; (2) JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1920-1992: including the 1920 and 1921 issues of the Strand Magazine in whi...

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