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Total number of records: 542

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives310
Books and printed items180
Indexes29
People and organisations14
Art items5
Objects2
Textiles2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection260
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection136
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections45
South Bank Show Production Archive33
Letters Database27
English Literature22
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive19
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society18
Cookery Collection14
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
family47
drawing41
painting35
letter writing34
opera29
art education24
sculpture16
portraits16
publishing12
investment12

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom28
Great Britain12
Genoa, Italy11
Devon, United Kingdom8
England5
Nice, France4
Soviet Union4
Lincolnshire3
Old Bolingbroke3
Bruges, Belgium3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)13
Novello, Emma Aloysia12
Johnson, R. Brimley11
Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841)11
Brock, H. M11
Brock, H M (1875-1960)11
Brock, C. E11
Johnson, R Brimley (1867-1932)11
Brock, C E (1870-1938)11
Dibdin, Thomas10

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Earliest dateCount
From 16002
From 170026
From 1800293
From 1900164
From 200056

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Latest dateCount
Up to 16992
Up to 17999
Up to 1899281
Up to 1999168
Up to latest80

Archive Collection

Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize

Humphreys, Emma

1998 - 2018

Emma was a writer, campaigner and survivor of male violence who fought an historic struggle to overturn a murder conviction in 1995, supported by Justice for Women. As a child, Emma witnessed many ass...

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NOVELLO, Emma Aloysia

1814-1902

Drawings, paintings and prints by the artist Emma Aloysia Novello, alongside material related to her family, financial and medical histories.

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SERLE, Emma Clara

1860-1861

Two pencil on paper portraits drawn by Emma Clara Serle, who was the eldest surviving daughter of Cecilia Serle (née Novello) and Thomas James Serle and the granddaughter of Vincent Novello. She was ...

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