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Total number of records: 315

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Archives159
Books and printed items128
Indexes22
Textiles3
Art items2
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture47
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society40
Brotherton Collection34
English Literature27
Liddle Collection16
University Archive15
Leeds Poetry10
Medical Collections10
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6
Herbert Read Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
occupations30
nature20
animals19
implements, utensils etc16
textile industry16
hides and skins14
persons14
skin diseases12
culture11
manners and customs10

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
France6
Japan2
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1
Ancona (Italy)1
Avignon (France)1
Comtat Venaissin (France)1
Corfu (Greece)1
England1
Great Britain1
Hebron (West Bank)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Balzac, Honore De (1799-1850)40
Saintsbury, George (1845-1933)40
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)12
Academie Des Sciences9
Lalande, Jerome (1732-1807)9
Crocker, Henry Radcliffe (1845-1909)8
Auden, W H (1907-1973)4
Barningham, Denis4
Bateman, Thomas (1778-1821)4
Bridgen, John William4

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From 160033
From 170045
From 180074
From 1900154
From 20009

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Up to 169910
Up to 179964
Up to 189933
Up to 1999193
Up to latest15

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Skin for skin

Powys, Llewelyn (1884-1939)

1926

Autobiographical.

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Skin

Hill, Tobias (1970-)

1997

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In the skin house

Couzyn, Jeni

1993

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A normal skin

Burnside, John (1955-)

1997

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Rabbit skin
Archive Art Piece

"Rabbit skins"

Frederick Lawson

c.1927

Charcoal drawing of a rack built outside a Gypsy Traveller wagon to hang rabbits that had been hunted/killed. Labelled, "Rabbit skins [indecipherable word- possibly location]."

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Second skin

Hawkes, John (1925-1998)

c1964

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Skin divers

Michaels, Anne (1958-)

[1999]

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Skin divers

Michaels, Anne (1958-)

1999

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Everything begins with the skin

Hubbard, Sue

1994

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Calf skin wallet

c. 1950

Brown calf skin folding wallet belonging to Maurice de Sausmarez, with a central metal zip and 6 compartments, including dedicated smaller sections for stamps and cards.

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Adventures in the skin trade

Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)

1965

Originally published, London: Putnam, 1955.

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Skin Deep card

Opera North

2009

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