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Total number of records: 152

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Leeds Russian Archive35
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society19
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture18
Brotherton Collection12
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive6
Art and Antique Market1
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
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politics and government152
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Great Britain44
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Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)26
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)7
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)6
Mercier, Louis-Sebastien (1740-1814)6
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-19535
Chambers, Arthur4
Molé, Louis-Mathieu Comte (1781-1855)4
Molé, Louis-Mathieu, Comte, 1781-18554
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-18214
Noailles, Helie Guillaume Hubert Marquis De (1871-)4

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Archive Sub-series

Parish and Church

[1965-1975]

This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...

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The Role of Tradition in Agrarian Protest: England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century

Seal, Graham

1978

M.A. thesis in three parts. The first, The Traditional Nature of Agrarian Society, contains sections on the customary society, the Corn Riots, rituals of justice and the highwayman tradition. Part Two...

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Woman and Marriage in Islam

Yedder, Abderahmane Muhammed

1975

Study submitted for the postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies, with chapters on the definition of marriage in the tradition of Islam, marriage among Jahilia (the Arab before Islam), woman before a...

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"Gypsies and Travellers in Yorkshire"

Wyman, Melvyn

1980

M.A. study of Gypsy Traveller culture, and their material culture in particular, based on fieldwork carried out on camp sites in West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, at the National Gypsy Education Cou...

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Ballads: General

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains the typed text of a song written about celebrations at Rothwell on the jubilee of George III (25 October 1809), collected by Peter Brears; a photostat copy of the text for 'England ...

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"Gypsies: General"

1966-1975

This file contains two photocopies of Stewart Sanderson's typed 'Gypsy Bibliography' (August 1974); mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'Country Life', 'The Countryman' and the 'Northumberlan...

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(F4) Papers : 2009- 2013

c. 2009 - c. 2013

Mainly undated and unattributed typescript (TS) papers and fragments in English and Polish [likely written by Zygmunt Bauman]. With accompanying manuscript notes, annotations and research (mainly prin...

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Six letters written by James Garth Marshall about Chartist unrest in Leeds and district

Marshall, James Garth (1802-1873)

16 Aug 1842-3 Sep 1842

Addressees are Thomas Spring-Rice, Charles Spring-Rice and Sir Henry Taylor

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The prince and his pleasures : satirical images of George IV and his circle

Barlow, Andrew

[1997]

"Catalogue of the exhibition The prince and his pleasures : satirical images of George IV and his circle, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, 12 July to 24 August 1997"--Page 84. Includes bibliographical ...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Monaghan, Ann M

1973

Male [? Mr. Ashton], recorded in Preston [continued from tape A020], talks about the organisation of the 1972 Preston Guild - Local Government involvement, pre-publicity lectures, the representation o...

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The nabobs at home

Edwardes, Michael; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1991

Includes index.

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