Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 73488 records

Total number of records: 73488

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items48714
Archives24370
Art items299
Objects51
Indexes49
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection73488
Herbert Read Collection16237
English Literature10841
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4469
Leeds Poetry4260
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1212
Rudolf Laban Collections961
ApIvor Collection527
Cookery Collection52
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse43

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1436
romanies1116
letters1087
art887
letter662
english literature647
poets, english644
art, modern522
pre-raphaelites504
socialism501

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain1299
England329
Sheffield (England)299
France214
Genoa, Italy177
Europe172
London, United Kingdom167
Yorkshire (England)156
Soviet Union130
Spain126

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1080
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)941
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)751
Sala, George Augustus504
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum442
Amsterdam (Netherlands)400
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)336
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)299
Crossley-Holland, Kevin291
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)269

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180024375
From 190047038
From 20002073

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
Up to 5991
Up to 189921130
Up to 199948576
Up to latest3778
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (1)
1928-1969
Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Bennett (1)
1991
Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...
Archive Collection:
MS 1795
1986-2011
Comprises mainly Professor Michael Millgate's correspondence with Dr. Ann Thwaite. Also includes some correspondence with Dr. Anthony Thwaite.
Archive Print Collection:
BC 1890's
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...
Archive Print Collection:
BC 19c Gosse
1829-2014
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Brontëana
19th - 20th century
A collection of pamphlets and offprints on Brontë subjects.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Drouet
1833-1903
Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo. 440 letters, partially covering the years 1833 - 1851. Also included are two letters (1903 - 1906) relating to the collection whilst in the care of John El...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Borrow
c.1840-1913
Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Ellis
08 Oct 1894
Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Arnold
1810-1894
Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Dawson
1856-1937
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Tebb
c.1873-1898