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Total number of records: 261

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Archives184
Books and printed items71
Indexes5
Art items1

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Collection groupCount
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman94
Leeds Russian Archive49
Brotherton Collection25
English Literature12
University Archive10
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8
Leeds Poetry4
Letters Database4
Business Archives3

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SubjectCount
furniture10
furniture design10
culture9
draperies8
letters8
seating (furniture)8
english language - dialects7
community life6
fishing6
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.6

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PlaceCount
Great Britain6
Cavaillon (France)2
Comtat Venaissin (France)2
Provence (France)2
Yorkshire (England)2
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1
Ancona (Italy)1
Genoa, Italy1
Kowal (Poland)1
Kutno (Poland)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)25
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8
Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941)8
Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889)8
Orleans, Pierre Joseph D' (1641-1698)4
Suetonius (69-122)4
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)2
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2

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From 170017
From 180038
From 1900183
From 20005

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Up to 179917
Up to 189927
Up to 199985
Up to latest115

Archive File

Letter from Ernest Briggs, Junior Constitutional Club, Piccadilly; to Mary Briggs.

7 February 1895

Wishing her a happy birthday. MS, signed. 1f.

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The light upon the candlestick : first published in Latin

Furly, Benjamin (1636-1714)

1767

This anonymous work, originally published in Latin as "Lucerna super candelabrum". has been attributed to Peter Balling and to Adam Boreel. Furly's English version is translated from the Dutch transla...

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June 05 - October 05 folder part

Opera North

2005

Newspaper and magazine cuttings. Categories include misc., recordings, capital development, new composers' forum, orchestra reviews, orchestra misc., awards, Arts Council, education, sponsorship, Oper...

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Lease for one year for possession of the manor of Plompton

1 Oct 1655

1 Sir Edward Plompton of Plomton, knight; Anthony Plompton and Edward Plompton, his second and third sons

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'The Constitutions of the Inglish Academie'

1635

'A Breife of some Constitutions agreed upon by the Regent, and Professors of the Academye which Concerne the Noblemen and Gentlemen there instituted What they shall pay And what benefitt they shall Re...

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Joyce

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1968-1982

This file contains items collected by Hill relating to James Joyce. Includes promotional information for B.J. Tysdahl's 'Joyce and Ibsen: A Study in Literary Influence' (1968); a clipping of a photogr...

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First World War Photograph albums 1914-1920

1914-1918

122/1-2 Albums belonging to Nurse Palethorpe, V.A.D. Nurse during First World War. bums containing autographs and photographs of the soldiers she nursed at the Astley al, London. 122/3 Photographs d...

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Lettres sur les Anglois et les François : sur les voyages et sur d'autres sujets

Muralt, Béat Louis de (1665-1749)

1753

P.122 wrongly numbered 222.

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