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Total number of records: 12493

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives11357
Objects949
Books and printed items131
Art items56

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection12420
Leeds Russian Archive68

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-1918924
photographs335
letters155
conscientious objectors103
postcards79
diaries66
voluntary aid detachments34
maps26
war poetry, english25
world war, 1939-194521

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Germany2
Russia2
Soviet Union2
Berlin1
Great Britain1
Greece1
Israel1
Italy1
Jordan1
Syria1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bokov, Nikolai Konstantinovich (1945-)18
Great Britain. Army7
Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission6
Liddle, Peter H (1934-)6
Great Britain5
Thebaud, Marie-Claude (1959-)4
James F. H. S. Mussell3
Kazakov, Vladimir3
Mussell, Henry S. (1889-1974)3
Ratcliffe, Bertram3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17002
From 180099
From 190012339
From 200023

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18995
Up to 199912422
Up to latest37

Archive Collection

Liddle Collection (First and Second World Wars)

1914-1945

Peter Liddle began collecting First World War personal experience material from veterans and their descendants in the 1960s, when he was a schoolteacher in Liverpool making pioneering use of original ...

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Archive Sub-collection

Liddle Collection (Museum Objects)

1899-1945

The Liddle Collection includes the personal papers of well over 4,000 people who lived through the First World War, and approximately 500 who experienced the Second World War. The Museum Objects Colle...

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Archive Object File

propellor

c.1914-1918

1 Stabilising propeller with cap - Origin unknown, possibly for a torpedo.

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SLOUCH HAT
Archive Object File

slouch hat

c.1914-1918

1 General issue slouch hat, felt, khaki, manuf. Melbourne. Maker's stamp insiide reads "Shelmerdine Bros. Pty. Melbourne 1916 6."

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CHALICE
Archive Object File

chalice

c.1914-1918

1 Chalice, silver plated

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Archive Object File

map case

c.1914-1918

1 Map case, leather, dark green, 1 canvas stanyard attached by metal clips, front of case opens to show Perspex map pouch with red grid squares

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Archive Object File

cigarette case

c.1914-1918

1 Cigarette case, metal, bears words '1st Aust Inf Bn', decorated on rear with Australian badge and the words '17th Aug 1914 Egypt Gallipoli France Belgium 17th Aug 1918'

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mirror

c.1914-1918

1 Trench mirror, polished steel, with small oval handle cut into top

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TUNIC
Archive Object File

tunic

c.1914-1918

1 Tunic, green. Left arm bears metal Australia badge and unit patch with letter 'A'; right arm bears sergeant's stripes and another striped patch; collar bears metal Australian Commonwealth Military F...

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Archive Series

Art Work (AW)

c.1914-1918

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Archive Art File

Looking North Over Shrapnel Gully

c.1914-1918

1 Painting 'Looking North Over Shrapnel Gully' by Sapper Moore-Jones (NZ), water colour print

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