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Total number of records: 1589

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Archives1568
Books and printed items19
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1143
English Literature903
Liddle Collection155
Leeds Russian Archive86
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Leeds Poetry21
Medical Collections10
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
Quaker Collection5
Business Archives5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters1589
poets, english504
pre-raphaelites503
english poetry327
english fiction307
english literature289
english drama272
world war, 1914-1918151
photographs144
scholars, assistance to78

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Great Britain1
Hertfordshire1
Lozere (France : Dept.)1
France1
England1
Aveyron (France)1
Birmingham1
Colney Heath1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)235
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)151
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)10
Keeley, Robert5
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)5
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)5
Knox, Vicesimus5
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)4
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)4

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Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1990/1
1801-2000
The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...
Archive Collection:
MS 1325
19--
Includes diaries, letters, postcards, photographs, household accounts, notes on bibliography, librarianship and education, papers of various family members, documents relating to Aireborough Civic Soc...
Archive Collection:
MS 1328
c.1873-1921
Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Céard towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various ed...
Archive Collection:
MS 1349
c.1815-1821
Comprises many manuscript letters written between 1815 and 1821 to Captain George Nicholls on St Helena while he was guarding Napoléon Bonaparte, with one dated much later in 1880.
Archive Collection:
MS 1514
c.1890-1922
Comprises letters, press cuttings, and notes
Archive Collection:
MS 1537
1888-1965
Includes correspondence, press cuttings, photographs, and pamphlets, mostly related to local history: 1. Manuscript list of correspondence: name and address of correspondent and brief summary. 2. ...
Archive Collection:
MS 1559
c.1925-1984
Contains material relating to various professional appointments in the World Council of Churches, William Temple Foundation, and the University of Leeds; the Cadbury lectures; personal and family pape...
Archive Collection:
MS 1562
c.1945-1975
Comprises: (1) Planning papers, research reports, and administrative papers and correspondence of the Project between 1967 and 1975; (2) Many books on economic history and pamphlets on urban developme...
Archive Collection:
MS 1563
1903-1977
Comprises wage books, invoices, miscellaneous company papers and reports, catalogues, examples of printing, correspondence, notes on company history, photographs (loose and in albums), slides, 2 reels...
Archive Collection:
MS 1565
1869-1960?
The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...
Archive Collection:
MS 1568
1979-1988
Comprises: 1) Correspondence, posters, photographs and other material related to "New Art in Yorkshire" exhibition, 1987; 2) Material relating to exhibitions and events held by YCAG, 1984-1988; 3) Mat...