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Total number of records: 119

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items74
Archives45

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection99
English Literature29
Leeds Poetry24
Liddle Collection8
Leeds Russian Archive6

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
theater programs119
pantomimes27
letters9
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)8
photographs7
world war, 1914-19187
correspondence4
pantomime (christmas entertainment)4
nursery rhymes4
english literature3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Theatre Royal (Sheffield, England)28
Theatre Royal (Sheffield, England). Christmas Pantomime26
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)18
Grand Theatre (Leeds, England)8
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Prince'S Theatre (Bradford, England)4
Theatre Royal (Bradford, England)4
Byron, Henry J (1835-1884)3
Byron, Henry J3
Theatre Royal (Leeds, England)3

Count of Earliest date

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From 180040
From 190079

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189936
Up to 199981
Up to latest2

Archive Collection

Workshop Theatre productions, photographs, programmes and an acting text of Etherege's The Man of Mode

c.1968-1998

Comprises miscellaneous theatre programmes for Workshop Theatre productions dated between the early 1970s and 1998, many dozens of black and white and colour photographs of productions, some architect...

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William Gaskill, papers principally relating to his period at the Royal Court Theatre, 1965-1972

Gaskill, William (1930-2016)

1892-2010

There are two accruals in this collection. One received in 2003, the second in 2016. See the attached record BC MS 20c Gaskill/1 for details of the second. The first accrual includes: 1) Folders...

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Archive Collection

John Mackendrick Collection

Mackendrick, John (1946-1979)

1970-1994

The collection includes drafts of plays by Mackendrick, photographs of his productions, newspaper reviews, posters, flyers and correspondence.

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BEZZUBOV, Valerii Ivanovich (1929-1991)

1954-1994, nd

Issues of "Alma mater" (Tartu), April 1992, and "Russkaia gazeta" (Tartu), 8 October 1994 with commemorative articles about V I Bezzubov (also circular letters etc about 1994 conference dedicated to ...

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William Gaskill, additional papers principally related to his period at the Royal Court Theatre, 1965-1972

1958-2010

This series is a separate accrual received in September 2016. It includes correspondence, scripts and many notebooks which contain sketches and items which have been pasted in. Box 1: contains pap...

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John Mackendrick Collection

1970-1994

Comprises: (1) 3 boxes of autograph typescript and manuscript drafts of Mackendrick's plays, including (Box 1) many drafts of 'Rules' (at least 7 with some incomplete and one version called 'Religion'...

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Archive Series

Material relating to a production of 'Ludd!'

May 1979

The accrual relates to a production of Mackendrick's play 'Ludd!' at the Little Theatre, Bristol, by Jeremy Mulford under the name July Fox.

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BIRKINSHAW, J H

1914-1918

68 photographs (1917, nd); 7 concert and theatre programmes in English, French and Russian (Jan 1917, 13-14 Feb 1917, Mar 1917, nd); Christmas dinner menu on envelope (Dec 1917); Issue of 'The Crefeld...

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DOUGAN, J W

1918

Heuberg Palace theatre programme (20 Oct 1918); Photograph album (1918).

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DRURY, WESTON

1914-1918

Theatre poster (26 Dec 1917); Theatre programmes (25 Dec 1914-11 Apr 1918); Extracts from 'The Mosquito' regarding concert parties (nd); Letter from NH Fowler (11 Dec 1962); 2 photocopied letters of e...

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GRAY, GEORGE

1915-1918

Souvenir Gaiety Theatre pantomime programme 'Robinson Crusoe' [Dec 1917]; Manuscript recollections (nd).

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Archive File

Brontë

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1960s-1970s

This file contains items related to a lecture on the Bront?s by Geoffrey Hill, collected press clippings and related items. Includes: - ms lecture The Bront?s (9 ff); - typescript copy of lecture T...

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