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Total number of records: 48714

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection48714
Herbert Read Collection14509
English Literature4116
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3537
Incunabula15
Leeds Poetry1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
romanies1058
english poetry844
art685
socialism492
sermons, english448
world war, 1914-1918366
english literature347
art, modern321
english language242
aesthetics231

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain1299
Sheffield (England)299
England233
France203
Europe172
Yorkshire (England)155
Soviet Union130
Spain115
Greece101
United States93

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)826
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum442
Amsterdam (Netherlands)400
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)335
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)297
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616261
Church of England238
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)237
Labour Party (Great Britain)223
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)222

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180018854
From 190029595
From 2000265

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
Up to 189917208
Up to 199930595
Up to latest910

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1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)

1890s

Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...

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Gosse (Brotherton Collection)

1829-2014

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Stand Magazine Archive

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997); Baro, Gene; Smith, Ken (1938-2003); Lamb, Catherine; Brown, Merle E (1925-); Gardner, Raymond; Brunner, Edward; Rudolph, Anthony - Menard Press; Marshall, Brenda; Tracy, Lorna; Fink, Howard; Wilding, Michael (1942-); Ober, Robert; Gardner, Val; Heal, David; Wedde, Ian; Kureczko, Victor; Pybus, Rodney (1938-); Jones, Ag; Astley, Neil; Bradshaw, David C A; Wise, David; Keen, John; McDuff, David (1945-); Kates, Jim; Blackburn, Michael (1954-); Cleary, Brendan; Morgan, Richard; Joseph, Lawrence; Kingsbury, Jack; Evans, Lynn; Kingsbury, Pam; Alderson, David; Paterson, Evangeline; Emerson, Jessie; Schenker, Daniel; Kay, Amanda; Hinton, Brian; Robinson, Peter (1953-); Arthurs, Jack; Lewis, Peter; Ayton, Michael; Bennet, Peter (1942-); Mitchell, Adrian (1932-2008); Quick, Margaret; Davies, Ioan; N Coe, Richard; Harrison, Tony (1937-); Matthews, Geoffrey (1920-1984); Rex, John

1952-2012

This collection represents the archives of Jon Silkin's Stand magazine, from early days in London from 1952 to 1957, through its relaunch from Leeds in 1960 and move to Newcastle in 1965, through to i...

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Stan Barstow book collection

1961- 1991

Copies of works by Stan Barstow, in various languages.

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David and Betty Beaty book collection

1959 - 1995

Copies of works by David and Betty Beaty.

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Alfred R. Orage book collection

1896 - 1992

Books from the collection of Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1834), journalist and intellectual, including long runs of The New Age, edited by Orage from 1907 to 1924, and New English Weekly, which Orage f...

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Will Foster book collection

1895-1903

Print material owned by or relating to, Will Foster

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John Gawsworth book collection

1931-1945

Print material owned by or relating to, John Gawsorth

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George Wilson Knight book collection

1800-1994

Print material owned by or relating to, George Wilson Knight

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Alberta Vickridge book collection

1922-1947

Print material owned by or relating to, Alberta Vickridge

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Rayner Heppenstall book collection

1944-1988

Print material owned by or relating to, Rayner Heppenstall

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Northern House book collection

1886-2004

Print material owned by or relating to, Northern House

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