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Total number of records: 213

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Books and printed items199
Archives14

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Brotherton Collection109
English Literature11
Liddle Collection6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5
Leeds Poetry4
Ripon Cathedral4
Quaker Collection3
Cookery Collection2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Herbert Read Collection1

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socialism in great britain45
corn laws (great britain)44
great britain25
general strike, great britain, 192617
socialism17
methodist church (great britain)15
church and state in great britain13
endowed public schools (great britain)11
theology7
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Ireland2
Austria1
Berlin (Germany)1
Cornwall (England)1
Hamburg-Altona (Germany)1
Linz1
Manchester1

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Fletcher, John (1729-1785)9
National Anti-Corn-Law League7
Communist Party of Great Britain5
Fabian Society (Great Britain)5
Gordon, Thomas5
Gordon, Thomas (1684-1750)5
Labour Party (Great Britain)5
Baron, Richard (1720-1768)4
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4
Fitzwilliam, Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Earl (1786-1857)4

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Roman Britain [and] the Dark Ages

1966

Originally published in five parts.

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A new history of England, in English and French, by question and answer : extracted from the celebrated English historians particularly M. de Rapin Thoyras

Lockman, John (1698-1771); Rapin Thoyras, Paul de (1661-1725)

1729

French and English vis-à-vis. Publisher's advertisement at end. Attributed to John Lockman by the British Museum. Consists chiefly of extracts from Rapin Thoyras' "Histoire d'Angleterre".

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Fifty six new and acurate [sic.] maps of Great Britain, Ireland and Wales : with all the direct and cross roads exactly tracted in the maps, which are more full and exact than any extant, having all the cities, parliament and market towns, villages, parks, hundreds, wapentacks, &c. distinguish'd

Moll, Herman (1732); Morden, Robert (1703)

1708

Containing maps previously issued in 1701 and 1704, but which are now slightly revised. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 39. Relief shown pictorially. Fifty...

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Liberalism, Toryism, a people's party : which will save the workers?

Glyde, C A

[1903]

"20, 000 copies". Date taken from text.

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Liberalism, Toryism, a people's party : which will save the workers?

Glyde, C A

[1903]

"20, 000 copies". Date taken from text.

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Three chronicles of the reign of Edward IV

Warkworth, John (1500); Halliwell-Phillipps, J O (1820-1889); Nichols, John Gough (1806-1873); Bruce, John (1802-1869)

1988

First published for the Camden Society, 1838-1847.

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Pieces of Land

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1970-1979

This series contains items relating to Crossley-Holland's travel book 'Pieces of Land', published in 1972. Includes correspondence, drafts, and research materials.

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