Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 21132 records

Total number of records: 21132

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items17209
Archives3768
Art items79
Indexes44
Objects32

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection21132
English Literature1661
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1129
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1005
Herbert Read Collection237
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse43
Rudolf Laban Collections12
Incunabula7
Medical Collections5
Leeds Poetry2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters590
letter539
poets, english471
pre-raphaelites440
sermons, english428
drawing259
english poetry248
romanies216
music186
painting184

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain661
Sheffield (England)248
Genoa, Italy163
London, United Kingdom149
England129
France120
Yorkshire (England)92
Europe87
Greece55
Scotland54

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sala, George Augustus427
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)324
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)246
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)205
Montgomery, James (1771-1854)201
Church of England191
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)156
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)149
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy149
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)147

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180021119
From 19001
From 200011

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
Up to 5991
Up to 189921130

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...

More details


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Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller.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

More details


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...

More details


Archive Collection

Albert Edward Tebb correspondence

Tebb, Albert Edward

c.1873-1898

More details


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...

More details

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...

More details and larger image


Archive Collection

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...

More details


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 -...

More details


Archive Collection

Mortimer Collins, poems

Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)

c.1860-1876

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

More details


Archive Collection

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

Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)

c. 1850

A historical drama in prose

More details


Archive Collection

Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne

c.1810-1835

Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.

More details


Archive Collection