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Total number of records: 27

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Archives26
Books and printed items1

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Brotherton Collection6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5
English Literature5
University Archive1
International Textile Collection1
Student Newspapers1
Leeds Russian Archive1

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letters7
english literature3
english poetry2
locomotives1
world war, 1914-19181
lgbtq+1
medieval history1
scientists1
steam-engines1
textile industry1

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Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)2
Ruskin, John James (1785-1864)1
Scott, E Kilburn1
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)1
Robson, William Snowden (1852-1918)1
Oakley, Cyril Leslie (1907-1975)1
Pilleau, Alice Caroline (1847-1935)1
Pybus, Rodney (1938-)1
Sharp, Clifford Dyce1

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Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c New Statesman
1914-1983
The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Review
1962-1972
The archive of The Review was acquired for the Brotherton Collection in 1996. The Review was one of the most successful literary ‘little magazines’ and enjoyed a ten year period of publication f...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1803
20th century
Consists of material collected by Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby and Ella Pontefract, the authors of a range of publications featuring the places, people and their occupations and environment and tracing...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c London Magazine Editions
1965-1979
The archive material contained within this collection relates to the publication of various volumes and dates from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, during the editorship of Alan Ross. The bulk of the ...
Archive Collection:
MS 2215
1932-1995
The collection includes Lejewski's manuscript notes and formulae created during his research together with drafts and typescripts of his published works. It contains typescript drafts and reprints of...
Archive Collection:
MS 2219
1904-2016
The material comprises the personal archive of Dame Fanny Waterman, covering her career as a piano teacher, speaker, author and organiser of musical events. The archive also reflects personal milesto...
Archive Sub-collection:
BC MS 20c Pybus/A
1950-2001
The Literary Papers and Correspondence of Rodney Pybus held in Leeds University Library comprises 19 boxes of papers relating to Pybus’s poetry collections, translations and other writing, and to hi...
Archive Collection:
BC Marrick Priory
1170-1812
The remote manor of Marrick in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, was most notable for centuries for the mining of lead in its vicinity which was being undertaken by the time of the Norman conquest. A docum...
Archive Collection:
MS 666
1922-c.1972
Cyril Leslie Oakley was born in 1907 and educated at Portsmouth and Westminster. He was a student of Harold Leigh-Sharpe’s at Chelsea Polytechnic (University of London) and co-authored a paper for P...
Archive Series:
ITC/O'Hear Collection
2017
The documents attached to this record were written by Ann O’Hear in 2017 to aid research into the O’Hear Collection of West African textiles, and to reference the work undertaken during documentat...
Archive Collection:
MS 1309
c.1900-1980
Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...
Archive Sub-collection:
MS 1323/2
1774-1960
This accrual comprises 7 boxes. Box 1 includes typed copies of articles from the 'Gentleman’s Magazine' c.1790, relating to the history of the Baptist church with notes and references, 2 folders of...