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Total number of records: 397

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Archives171
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture135
Brotherton Collection46
Quaker Collection40
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman28
Liddle Collection17
Herbert Read Collection8
Leeds Russian Archive4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive3
Cookery Collection2

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war397
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France37
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Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)26
Dunn, Ginette21
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)15
Lenotre, G (1855-1935)14
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)11
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)8
Lees, Frederic (1872-)8
Barry, Michael V (1935-)7
Bond, Francis Keith7
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)7

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Archive Collection

Society of Friends Peace Committee related papers and other peace movements collected by Joseph Sturge

Sturge, Joseph (1818-1874)

1850-1927

Comprises letters, reports, press cuttings, pamphlets and other material concerned with peace movements in Britain from before the outbreak of the First World War until the 1920s

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Press cuttings : 1995-2016

1995-2016

Mainly original copies of international magazines, periodicals or newspapers featuring articles by/about Zygmunt Bauman and /or his work. Also includes photographs and copies of online articles. Refe...

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The Dialect of Golcar

Jacobson, Joanne

1974

M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...

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Traditional Song: General

1963-1979

This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...

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(F1) Papers : 2005-2013

c.2005 - c.2013

Mainly undated, unattributed typescript (TS) papers in English and Polish, likely by Zygmunt Bauman.Some are titled "Liquid Modernity Revisited" (for Italian version); "Has Solidarity a Future"; "Toge...

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London, Sep, 1997

Jan-Aug, 1997

Correspondence concerning arrangements for Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture on "Art, Death, and Postmodernity - and what they do to each other", on 20th September 1997. This lecture took place a...

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Feb, 2000, Hull

Nov 1999- Jan 2000

Correspondence concerning arrangements for Zygmunt Bauman to deliver a seminar on 9 February 2000 as part of a seminar series for the Sociology and Anthropology department. (University of Hull, 9 Feb ...

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Archive File

Archive File

1944

1944

Generally documents that continue to relate to Maurice de Sausmarez's purchase of the family home at 16 Leaside Avenue, London, in 1943. Includes information about the rating of the property, income t...

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Press cuttings : 2004

2004

Include unattributed typescript paper/correspondence(Polish).

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The Customs and Traditions of the Staffordshire Regiment

Harvey, M C

1970

A dissertation which records and analyses the customs and traditions of the Staffordshire Regiment of the British Army, based on written sources and interviews with past and present members of the Reg...

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The People of the City of Liverpool and their Second World War

Bond, Francis Keith

1974

A dissertation comprising the recollections of people living in Liverpool during World War Two, based on tape-recorded conversations with fifteen informants.

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