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Total number of records: 2883

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	1560
Archives	957
People and organisations	304
Textiles	28
Indexes	26
Art items	7
Objects	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	631
Herbert Read Collection	283
English Literature	273
Leeds Russian Archive	237
University Archive	198
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	80
Liddle Collection	56
Cookery Collection	43
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	41
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman	37

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
world war, 1914-1918	54
english poetry	40
culture	34
art	30
letters	30
community life	28
english language - dialects	27
russians	20
manners and customs	18
education	16

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	52
France	46
Paris	28
Soviet Union	16
Russia	13
England	12
China	11
Europe	11
Leeds, United Kingdom	7
Rome	7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Childe, Wilfred Rowland (1890-1952)	52
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895-1952	48
Hamsun, Knut (1859-1952)	45
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)	33
Curt Valentin Gallery (New York, N.Y)	29
Elizabeth, Queen, Consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002	29
Meyerstein, E H W (1889-1952)	28
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	27
Lomonosov, ︠I︡U (1876-1952)	27
Tolkien, J R R (1892-1973)	27

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1100	1
From 1300	2
From 1400	4
From 1500	3
From 1600	16
From 1700	54
From 1800	319
From 1900	2398
From 2000	86

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1499	4
Up to 1599	2
Up to 1699	11
Up to 1799	54
Up to 1899	36
Up to 1999	2439
Up to latest	241

Archive File

1952

5 Sep 1952

Letter from the Royal Insurance Company Limited to Maurice de Sausmarez, communicating the request from the freeholder of 16 Leaside Avenue to have future premiums collected from the Southampton branc...

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