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Total number of records: 10816

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Archives7422
Books and printed items3345
Indexes31
Textiles7
People and organisations6
Art items4
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman4394
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2163
Brotherton Collection717
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections510
Leeds Russian Archive449
English Literature235
Herbert Read Collection167
Feminist Archive North140
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society128
University Archive113

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SubjectCount
culture2050
english language - dialects1984
latin language818
community life649
occupations499
folk music484
language and languages460
english language394
nature358
manners and customs332

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England47
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Rome27
Soviet Union16
Great Britain13
Denmark12
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Varmlands Lan (Sweden)11
Italy10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)289
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)131
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)123
Russell, Ian90
Voitl, Herbert72
Dunn, Ginette71
Sullivan, Keith Frederick53
Fothergill, George William48
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)43
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)42

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From 190010613
From 2000203

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Up to latest4944

Archive Series

Central Language Laboratory / The Language Centre

1963-2004

1. File titled: ‘Documents inherited from J. D. Fox concerning setting up of Lang. Labs’, 1963-70 2. Central Language Laboratory: Annual Reports, 1970-89 3. Grants - Running Expenses an...

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Their silence a language

Hooker, Jeremy (1941-); Grandjean, Lee

1993

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The Language of Yes

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1995-1997

This series concerns items relating to Crossley-Holland's poetry collection 'The Language of Yes' (1996), including correspondence, proofs, and a copy of the collection as published.

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The language of yes

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1996

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Language Instruction

1914-1918

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The French language

Ewert, A (1891-1969)

[1933]

"Select bibliography": pages 399-406.

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The Language of Storytelling

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study which examines the telling of the same story to the collector by two different informants. Both concern a local character known as Buttonsticks, and were related to the collector in July 1979....

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Language on the map

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1977]

Reprinted from the University of Leeds review, vol. 20, 1977.

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Language on the map

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1977]

Reprinted from the University of Leeds review, vol. 20, 1977.

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Language on the map

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1977]

Reprinted from the University of Leeds review, vol. 20, 1977.

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The Latin language

Palmer, Leonard R (1906-1984)

1954

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