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Total number of records: 2338

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Indexes128
Textiles20
Objects2
People and organisations2

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Brotherton Collection733
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture303
English Literature302
Leeds Poetry221
Herbert Read Collection217
Liddle Collection214
Art and Antique Market182
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History161
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society136
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society100

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culture99
community life90
correspondence63
world war, 1914-191857
english language - dialects55
letters49
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)48
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)43
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)21
National Women'S Aid Federation19
Leeds Animation Workshop18
Baron, Alec16
Women'S Aid14
Women'S Aid Federation England14
Women'S Aid Federation of England14

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From 2000157

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Regard for junction

Rizza, Gerard (1959-1992)

1992

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Regarding the pain of others

Sontag, Susan (1933-2004)

2004

Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003.

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Letter regarding rate payments

1st Nov

Letter regarding rates signed by R Byerley.

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Archive File

Instructions regarding Promotion of Officers

December 1917

Instructions regarding Promotion of Officers - Pamphlet

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Archive File

Correspondence regarding the proceedings of 1996

1999

Copy of a letter dated 7 October 1999 from Dr Chris Hammond (Hon. Editor) to Dr H.P. Cecil, in which he relays the Society’s decision not to publish the proceedings of the 1996 William Morris Centen...

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Correspondence regarding Naum Gabo

3 - 28 Jan 1966

This file contains 3 signed typescript letters on The Arts Council of Great Britain headed paper. The letters regard Read's Introduction to a Naum Gabo exhibition catalogue and are from Joanna Drew (A...

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Correpondence regarding church plate

1914-1915

15. Two letters from HB McCall [ed. Yorkshire Church Plate] to JW Walker regarding genealogical material concerning Thomas Beaumont of Chapelthorpe (d. 1731) to be included in the work 'Yorkshire Chur...

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Textile

letter regarding Cretan embroideries

1908

First page of letter to 'madam' regarding Cretan embroideries and those collected by her father J B Sandwith.

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Regard sur le passé

Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944); Galerie René Drouin

1946

Published at the time of the exhibition of 40 paintings by Kandinsky, organised by the Galerie René Drouin from 13th March to 13th April 1946.

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