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Archives41
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Indexes7
Textiles1

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Brotherton Collection15
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society9
Leeds Russian Archive7
Liddle Collection7
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman6
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5
Letters Database4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Herbert Read Collection2

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culture5
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Great Britain4
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Henry of Huntingdon (1084?-1155)3
Anonymous2
Ethelwerd (998)2
Fothergill, George William2
Fothergill, Mrs2
Ingulf Abbot of Crowland (1109)2
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Roger of Hoveden (1201)2
Savile, Sir Henry (1549-1622)2
William of Malmesbury (1090-1143)2

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Archive Print Item

Antiquarian and topographical cabinet : containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain, accompanied with letter-press descriptions (v.8, 1810)

Storer, James Sargant (1771-1853); Greig, John (fl. 1806)

1807-1811

All volumes are unpaged. Each volume has added engraved t.p.

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Textile

sampler

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

1870-1947

Incomplete sample of corner design of crosses within hexigons against a border, in red and green.

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Archive Sub-collection

GILLOTT, Mary (1889-1926)

1918-1919

Photocopy of Mary Gillott's diary, HM Hospital Ship Kalyan, Archangel, 1918-1919 /1/. Transcript of 1 /2/. Facsimile of Mary Gillott's photograph album, Archangel, 1918-1919 /3/. Negatives of 3 /4/...

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Archive Print Item

A collection of the Christian writings, labours, travels and sufferings, of that faithful and approved minister of Jesus Christ, Roger Haydock. To which is added, an account of his death and burial

Haydock, Roger (1643-1696); Field, John (1652-1723)

1700

With preface by John Field, and 9 testimonies. At end is a list (2 pp.) of "Books printed and sold by T. Sowle, 1700".

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Archive File

Archive Collection

Sender: Bury, John Bagnell

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): [1907]

Location: BC MS 19c Meredith (2). In "George Meredith Address", leaf 82

Title: The livery-mans answer to a letter dated from Whitehall Jan. 22, 1727-8

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1728 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Contemptuous expression of the City of London's opposition to a government

summons likely to affect its independence.

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Folk-Song in a Musical Tradition. (A Study of Irish Traditional Singing in Leeds)

Ashton, John

1975

M.A. study which examines folk song as part of a living Irish cultural tradition in Leeds, based on fieldwork and research carried out between November 1974 and April 1975. The discussion is based on ...

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Julien Benda and the new humanism

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1930

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