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Total number of records: 69

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Archives42
Books and printed items18
Indexes6
Coins1
Objects1
Textiles1

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Brotherton Collection17
Leeds Russian Archive10
Letters Database5
Liddle Collection5
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5
English Literature4
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture4
Quaker Collection4
Feminist Archive North2
Herbert Read Collection2

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letters4
russians3
agriculture2
art europeen2
art, european2
arts decoratifs2
community life2
decorative arts2
furniture2
meubles2

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Great Britain3
Byzantine Empire1
France1
Greece1
Russia1
United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Brunk, Wille3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
Christie, Manson & Woods2
Sunley, Mr2
Alanus De Insulis (1202)1
Anselmus, Saint (1210)1
Barri, Gabriel (1571-)1
Beckwith, Frank1
Bickley, Augustus Charles1
Bychkov, Sergei1

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Coin

Denomination: 2 skillings

Date(s): 1667-1667

Issuer/creator: Frederick III (1648-70)

Material: silver

sampler
Textile

sampler

Pesel, Louisa F (1947); Dryad Handicrafts (1918-1972)

1918-1947

Card-mounted canvas sample produced by Dryad Handicrafts of 'medium buff canvas'. Samples of embroidery stitches in differing colours have been worked on the canvas.

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Archive Sub-collection

VAL'TER (WALTER) Family

1900s-1910s

Photographs of: N G Val'ter (1863-1935) /1/; Anna Val'ter (née Fausek) (1853-1906) /2/; Mariia (1892-1968) and Tat'iana (1894-1979) Val'ter /3/; Tat'iana Val'ter /4/; Val'ter family group /5/. Burial...

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Archive Print Item

George Fox and the early Quakers

Bickley, Augustus Charles

1884

"List of the principal writings of George Fox": p. 406-12. "List of the principal works consulted for this book": p. 391-392.

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Archive File

Archive Collection

HARTLEY THWAITE PAPERS

20th century

Consisting of notes, transcripts and photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to Yorkshire history, mainly to Abbotside and Wenleydale, and to the Thwaite(s), Metcalfe and other families ...

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Sender: Crawfurd, Oswald John Frederick

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 7

Date(s): 9 Feb 1894 - 19 Nov 1904

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Title: To -- accusing me for not being more jocular in a letter of mine dated on New

Years Day, in regard of the time.

Author: Fountain, John

Attribution: John Fountain

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt 78

Contents: In letter form, arguing that the New Year is the same as the last except in

name and that it brings one nearer death; subscribed "From my chamber at the

Three Lutes, John Fountain".

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Archive File

Religion

1975 - 1977

Press cuttings from various sources, including the Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Telegraph, the Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Morning Star, Today, the Star, the Sun and oc...

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Archive File

Women's Organisations Groups and Campaigns: PAN-PUR

1979-2010

FAN/WOGC/12 O-P FOLDER 02: PAN-PUR - Pankhurst Centre News isssues 1 & 2 1998, plus leaflet - Parents’ Friend (for parents with lesbian, gay or bisexual offspring) (leaflet & flyer, 1996) - Pathfi...

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