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Total number of records: 269

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives198
Books and printed items70
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive205
Brotherton Collection16
English Literature12
Liddle Collection8
Herbert Read Collection5
Cookery Collection4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
University Art Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
british269
photographs61
letters45
postcards14
world war, 1914-191814
autobiography12
diaries11
bank notes7
russians6
authors, english5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
India10
Great Britain8
France7
Burma4
Russia4
Venice (Italy)4
Russia (Federation)3
Saint Petersburg (Russia)3
China2
Italy2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Castera, Jean-Henri (1749-1838)4
Rolfe, Frederick, 1860-19134
Symes, Michael (1753?-1809)4
Alger, John Goldworth3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Bulteau, Michel3
Chesnokova, A N3
Cross, Anthony (1936-)3
Forster, E M (1879-1970)3
Brennan, Jennifer2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17003
From 180098
From 1900156
From 200011

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189924
Up to 1999219
Up to latest26

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CARR, Henry Lambton (1899-1988)

1880s-1992, 2022

Cassettes of H L Carr's recollections of childhood in Archangel, schooldays in England, Allied Intervention in North Russia, diplomatic service in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, 1900s-1950s (recorded 19...

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PLATTS Collection

1900, 1931, 1960s-1980s

Photographs and negatives of coronation mug, 1896, /1-3/, Modern prints and negatives of photographs of Russian Imperial study? by Rentz & Schreider, 1900 /4-8/, Modern prints and negatives of photogr...

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BURY, John Patrick Tuer (1908-1987)

1941-1942

Photocopy of John Bury's diary entries about Russian connections of Mr Robinson, formerly of Metro-Vickers /1/.

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BIRSE, Kate (1908-)

1910s, 1957, 1985

Kate Birse's recollections of her childhood in St Petersburg/Petrograd, repatriation to Great Britain in 1920, life in Estonia and Finland 1930s-1940s /1/, photographs of Birse, Anderson and North fam...

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BERNAYS Collection

1986

Slides of: postcard reproductions of works by N Konstantinov, ?L'vova, M Boskin, F Sychkov, S Vinogradov, T Mozgov, Russian Types, and views of Moscow (including British chapel, St Andrew's Church and...

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BAGENAL Collection

[1850s]-1988, 1996

Photographs and postcards (including some modern prints, slides and negatives) of: members of the Muir, Mirrielees and Philip families in Russia /1-18/; Degunino Chemical Works (near Moscow) /19-52/; ...

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LUHRS Collection

[1910s], 1986, 1991

Luhrs family-history notes /1/. Modern print of photograph of Luhrs family house, Archangel /2/. Photocopy of letter from Lev Leibson, St Petersburg, to Eugenie Fraser, Edinburgh (1991) /3/.

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MARSHALL, Annie

[1902-1903], 1983-1986

Photocopies of letters from Annie Marshall, Bogorodskii (i.e. Bogorodskoe, near Moscow?) to Eliza Donkersley, England (7, 1902- 1903) /1-7/. "Old West Riding", vol 3, no 1 (Spring 1983) (contains publ...

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BIRSE Family

1920-1988

Vivien Caird Molteno (née Birse) (1909-) "Childhood Memories of Moscow", 1986 /1/. Bernays, Birse, Caird family trees /2/. Edward Birse "About the Cairds", 1963 /3/. Edward Birse "The Lockhart Missio...

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RICHES, Frank (1859-1932)

1917, 1986

Photocopies of letters from Frank Riches in Petrograd to Dora Riches (née Bucknall) in Manchester (3, 1917) /1-3/. Notes on 1-3 by Violet Whitehead /4/.

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SWAN/SWANN Family

1968, 1976, 1988-1989

Alfred Swan (1890-1970) "Canticles of the Eastern Church" (London: Albert House Press, 1976) /1-2/. Advertising leaflet for 1-2 /3/. Herbert Swann (1895- 1969) "Home on the Neva: A Life of a British ...

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ADDISON (nee Hill), Lucy (1861-1946)

1890s, 1939-1946, 1971-1985

Photocopies of transcribed letters from Lucy Addison to Rhona Chave (1939-1946) (see 9) /1/. Copy letters from Harvey Pitcher to: Toby Roxburgh (1984) /2/, Rhona Chave (1985) /3/. Notes by Harvey Pitc...

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