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Indexes22
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Textiles2
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection59
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman26
Leeds Russian Archive24
Liddle Collection16
Quaker Collection14
English Literature13
University Archive13
Herbert Read Collection11
Letters Database11
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society11

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sociology31
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political science30
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)35
Robinet, Jean Baptiste (1735-1820)30
Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834)27
Harrison, L (1807-1842)26
Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853)26
Israel16
Athanasius Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria (373)15
Ariosto, Lodovico9
Ariosto, Lodovico (1474-1533)9
Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1494)9

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Up to 179959
Up to 189996
Up to 1999158
Up to latest44

Archive Print piece

Othello. II. iii. 373 - III. iii. 19

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (322)

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Archive File

MS music book

1946-1948

containing exercises 1946-8 (i) Composition exercises in various styles and for different forces: in ink except for a single exercise in pencil. These are dated 1946 on the front cover. (ii) Pedal exe...

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Archive File

Scrapbook containing photographs and other works and designs, by Emily Susan Ford

Ford, Emily Susan (1850-1930)

1912

Scrapbook compiled in 1912, containing 49 photographs of mural paintings, other works and designs, mostly on religious themes and dating from ca.1880 to ca.1910. A list of the contents is included D...

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Textile

Soieries Hiver 1956 pour Échantillonage Hiver 1957 Envoi D

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1956-1957

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including organza. Woven patterning in 1-4 colours includes dots, wavy lines, flowerheads, ornamental flower...

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Textile

collar

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Loosely woven natural coloured linen fabric with repeating geometric border design, worked in coloured wools in satin, double running and cross stitches.

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Archive Item

Southgate (Thomas Lea)

12 January 1892

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Archive Item

This drama.

02-Jun-1933

The Spectator, 2nd June 1933, p 811. Reviews of published plays by E M Delafield, Miles Malleson, Beverley Nichols, Shirland Quin, Howard Peacey and Compton Mackenzie, also Plays of a half -decade.

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