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Total number of records: 4735

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Business Archives1605
Brotherton Collection842
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)97
Gosse, Edmund60
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)57
Gosse, Ellen, Lady52
[Unknown]47
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)39
Sitwell, Lady35
Abercromby, Julia Janet Georgina32
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Monmerque, L.-J.-N32

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The lady

Michaeljohn, Kate

1997

Contains article about Arthur Ransome on p.74: "Ransome's Harvest" / by Kate Michaeljohn.

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Sender: Thornycroft, Agatha, Lady

Recipient: Gosse, Ellen, Lady

Letters: 1

Date(s): 16 Oct 1883

Location: BC Gosse correspondence.

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Not in printed catalogue. Not found 07/01/99.

Sender: Gosse, Ellen, Lady

Recipient: Thornycroft, Agatha, Lady

Letters: 1

Date(s): 16 Oct 1883

Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In LADY ELLEN GOSSE box

Note: Not in printed catalogue.


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The letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield (v.1)

Disraeli, Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881); Bradford, Selina Louisa Forester Bridgman Countess of (1894); Chesterfield, Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Countess of (1802-1885); Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of (1876-)

1929

New York ed. (Appleton) has title: The letters of Disraeli to Lady Chesterfield and Lady Bradford.

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The letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield (v.2)

Disraeli, Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881); Bradford, Selina Louisa Forester Bridgman Countess of (1894); Chesterfield, Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Countess of (1802-1885); Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of (1876-)

1929

New York ed. (Appleton) has title: The letters of Disraeli to Lady Chesterfield and Lady Bradford.

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*ASHTON, Lady.

1970-1999

(Tape 342); Domestic Front; Schoolgirlhood in East Anglia (Southwold).

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*HARKNESS, Lady

1970-1999

(Tape 693). Nursing - 1913 at 1st Western General Hospital; Overseas posting to the Territorial Nursing Service but on way to Egypt was torpedoed outside Alexandria harbour in HMT Aragon.

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The royal ladies

Robyns, Gwen

c1969

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TROWER, LADY

1914-1918

Photographs; Photocopied papers; Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (June 1979).

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CHAMPION, Lady

1914-1918

(1893-) (Transcripts of Tapes 405/411) Life in London working for the Quakers until 1916 when she transferred to Military Intelligence (MI 5) as a typist/clerk.

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COLGRAIN, Lady

1914-1918

Madge, Lady Colgrain. Manuscript detailing family history, life in Egypt, Mediterranean voyages and support work in a hospital in Kent as a VAD

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