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Total number of records: 867

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Books and printed items840
Archives18
Textiles8
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection135
Herbert Read Collection22
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections18
English Literature14
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society10
International Textile Collection8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7
Cookery Collection4
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman3
Leeds Russian Archive3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
history, ancient88
greek literature19
excavations (archaeology)15
classical philology12
military art and science12
civilization, greek11
mythology, greek10
art, greek9
antiquities8
art8

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Greece867
Rome133
Turkey21
Athens (Greece)19
Iran12
Egypt11
Middle East10
Athens7
Rome (Italy)7
Delos Island (Greece)5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Thucydides96
Herodotus66
Grote, George (1794-1871)49
Plutarch47
Xenophon44
Polybius30
Langhorne, John (1735-1779)23
Langhorne, William (1721-1772)23
Barthelemy, J.-J (1716-1795)22
Mitford, William (1744-1827)22

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From 160032
From 1700100
From 1800402
From 1900322
From 200011

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Up to 169928
Up to 179996
Up to 1899400
Up to 1999331
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Yates, (Dora Esther) “Paspati’s Greek Folk-Songs"

1948

Manuscript, (handwritten) entitled, “Folk songs of the Tchingianes: Extracted from the Etudes of Dr A.G Paspati [Alexandras Georgios Paspates]. Edited, with notes and English translation, by the la...

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Starkie (Walter Fitzwilliam), “The Invasion of the Roumanian Coppersmiths.”

1929-1940

Autograph manuscript,(handwritten) article for Journal of Gypsy Lore Society. 25 pages of loose sheets. Corrected and edited, partly in the hand of Dora E. Yates. Portions are marked for omission from...

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Starkie (Walter Fitzwilliam), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

Starkie, Walter (1894-1976)

03/03/1950

Typed and signed letter on letterhead of the Instituto Britanico en Espana, (Calle de Almagro 5, Madrid). With envelope.

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Printing blocks (3) of photographs for the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society.

c.1938

3 copper photographic/printing plates mounted on wooden blocks of images used for articles in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society.

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2001, Athens

Mar 2001- Nov 2001

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of seminars as part of a post graduate course in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Athens, October/ November 2001. Lecture topics...

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Jun, 2003, Spetses

Jun 2003

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to contribution at a Humanities conference for the "Globalism Institute RMIT University", 9-12 June 2003.

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Oct, 1998, Athens (declined)

May 1998 - Oct 1998

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's participation at a conference for the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University titled “Globalization and risk Societies”. (Pant...

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Archæologia græca : or, The antiquities of Greece (v.1)

Potter, John (1747); Dunbar, George (1774-1851)

1820

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History of art in primitive Greece : Mycenian art (v.1)

Perrot, Georges (1832-1914); Chipiez, Charles (1835-1901); Gonino, I

1894

Translator's note signed: I. Gonino.

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History of art in primitive Greece : Mycenian art (v.2)

Perrot, Georges (1832-1914); Chipiez, Charles (1835-1901); Gonino, I

1894

Translator's note signed: I. Gonino.

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The history of ancient Greece, from the earliest times till it became a Roman province

Robertson, William (1740-1803)

1803

Pages 631-632: "Books lately published by William Creech, Edinburgh".

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Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, dans le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère chrétienne. Abrégé de l'ouvrage original de l'abbé Barthélemy à l'usage de la jeunesse : avec la vie de l'auteur

Barthélemy, J.-J (1716-1795); Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini duc de (1716-1798)

1806

"Essai sur la vie de J. J. Barthélemy" par m. le duc de Nivernois : p. [i]-xxviii.

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