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Total number of records: 42803

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items31260
Indexes6882
Archives4528
Art items94
Objects38

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection42803
English Literature8462
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7062
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1185
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1161
Herbert Read Collection259
Rudolf Laban Collections12
Incunabula8
Medical Collections5
Letters Database2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters630
english poetry612
sermons, english567
letter539
poets, english479
pre-raphaelites440
drawing261
romanies249
music209
poetry208

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain1918
Sheffield (England)253
France251
Europe199
England164
Genoa, Italy163
London, United Kingdom150
Yorkshire (England)138
Rome135
London (England)96

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Anonymous2618
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1218
Wodehouse, Sir Philip631
Sala, George Augustus427
Great Britain. Parliament355
Great Britain340
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)327
Church of England305
Tipping, William ?301
Dryden, John (1631-1700)292

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16009737
From 170011934
From 180021119
From 19001
From 200011

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
Up to 5991
Up to 16999236
Up to 179911350
Up to 189922215

Archive Print Collection

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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Archive Collection

George Crabbe correspondence and papers

1726-1816

Additional items listed Sep 2017: 'Letter and Watercolour' [BC MS 19c Crabbe/6].

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Archive Collection

'Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm' manuscript volume

Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)

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Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller.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...

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Archive Collection

Arnold Family Archive

Arnold Family

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...

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Archive Collection

Albert Edward Tebb correspondence

Tebb, Albert Edward

c.1873-1898

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Archive Collection

Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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Bennett Family Correspondence
Archive Collection

Bennett Family Correspondence

Bennett family

c.1840-1866

The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...

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Shirley Brooks, diaries

Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)

1867-1872

Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...

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Archive Collection

Robert Browning, holograph poems

Browning, Robert (1782-1866)

c.1820-1866

Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...

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Mortimer Collins, poems

Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)

c.1860-1876

Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain

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James Dalton, correspondence

Dalton, James

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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Archive Collection

Pierce Egan, The blind lover; or, The maid of Malines

Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)

c. 1850

A historical drama in prose

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