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Total number of records: 422

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items346
Archives75
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection163
Letters Database71
English Literature29
Cookery Collection21
Leeds Russian Archive17
Leeds Animation Workshop15
Quaker Collection13
Herbert Read Collection11
Liddle Collection5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
women422
letter71
femmes15
women's rights15
home economics14
queens14
conduct of life9
feminism9
education7
families7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain33
France15
England5
Soviet Union4
Africa3
Developing Countries2
Egypt2
Europe2
London (England)2
Nigeria2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sala, George Augustus53
Leeds Animation Workshop28
Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874)11
Strickland, Elizabeth11
Strickland, Elizabeth (1794-1875)11
More, Hannah (1745-1833)9
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)8
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)8
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)7
Chapone, Mrs Hester (1727-1801)6

Count of Earliest date

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From 160025
From 170064
From 1800166
From 1900145
From 200022

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Up to 169925
Up to 179962
Up to 1899149
Up to 1999156
Up to latest30

Archive Collection

Little Owl Society, Leeds Archive

1879-2002

Comprises: (1) Journal, 2 vols, 1879-1937; (2) Album containing photographs of Little Owl members, 1879-1987; (3) Minute books, 21 vols, 1879-1999; (4) Treasurer's note books, reports and cashbook, 18...

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Leeds Animation Workshop Archive

1972 - 2020

The Leeds Animation Workshop (LAW) archive documents the history and workings of Britain’s first all-female led animation collective. The Workshop began in 1978 and is still active, working from a t...

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Album of signatures presented to Lady Morris by members of Leeds University Ladies' Tea Club on the occasion of her retirement

Morris, Mary De Selincourt

1963

The volume is bound in green leather with the university crest embossed on it in gold. A letter from the donor, Peter Miller, to the Librarian, Mr R.P. Carr, dated 1st June 1990, is attached to the ba...

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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The position of the mother in the family in its legal and scientific aspects

Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth Morgan (1843-)

1884

"Read at the annual congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at Birmingham in 1884, and published by permission of the council" - Title p.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.1)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.2)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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Dictionnaire historique portatif des femmes célebres (v.1)

Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Published anonymously. By J.F. de Lacroix.

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