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Total number of records: 514

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives308
Books and printed items162
Indexes27
People and organisations9
Art items5
Textiles2
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection243
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection133
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections33
South Bank Show Production Archive33
Letters Database27
English Literature21
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive19
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society18
Cookery Collection14
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
family46
drawing41
painting35
letter writing33
opera29
art education24
sculpture16
portraits15
publishing12
investment12

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom28
Genoa, Italy11
Great Britain11
Devon, United Kingdom8
England5
Soviet Union4
Nice, France4
Lincolnshire3
Old Bolingbroke3
Harrogate, United Kingdom3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)13
Novello, Emma Aloysia12
Brock, H M (1875-1960)11
Johnson, R. Brimley11
Brock, H. M11
Brock, C. E11
Johnson, R Brimley (1867-1932)11
Brock, C E (1870-1938)11
Hamilton, Lady Emma (1761?-1815)9
Nelson, Horatio Nelson Viscount (1758-1805)8

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800293
From 1900164
From 200056

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899266
Up to 1999166
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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Grace Emma Parker Bequest

1991

Correspondence from Sterratt & Co solicitors regarding bequest to the University of Leeds by Grace Emma Parker

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