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Total number of records: 23485

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items11137
Archives10680
Indexes1275
Textiles352
Art items18
People and organisations15
Objects8

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection4541
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3885
English Literature2159
Cookery Collection1774
Liddle Collection1373
Herbert Read Collection1273
Letters Database1045
Leeds Poetry740
Leeds Russian Archive615
Quaker Collection554

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-1918652
culture402
english language - dialects354
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)339
cooking331
english poetry297
world war, 1939-1945256
art227
community life225
cooking, english199

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3696
Great Britain380
Yorkshire374
France264
Essex165
Lincolnshire165
Lancashire154
Somerset144
Norfolk143
United Kingdom143

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1343
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)642
Wright, John T553
Wright, Peter432
Sykes, Donald Richard347
Barry, Michael V (1935-)321
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)304
Crossley-Holland, Kevin202
Robertson, Robin At Penguin Books165
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)146

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 190022392
From 20001091

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1991
Up to 5991
Up to 10991
Up to 18993
Up to 199921035
Up to latest2439

Archive Print Item

Books and book-collectors

Carter, John Wayneflete (1905-1975); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1956

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The collector's book of books

Quayle, Eric (1921-2001)

1971

Includes bibliographical references.

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From book to book

McDowall, John (1953-); Taylor, Chris; Leeds (England). City Art Gallery

2008

Catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition of new artists' books and held at the Leeds Art Gallery from 6 Mar. to 20 Apr. 2008. Exhibition concept, book and installation design by John McDowall. ...

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Archive File

Textile

Day Book [loom book]

Blackburn, Tolson and Co.

1934-1936

Hardback with black covers and dark red spine, and gold text. Contains handwritten data - dated entries give written descriptions of patterns, materials and diagrams of loom configuration. Mostly ap...

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Textile

Suggestion Book [pattern book]

c. 1931

Hardback with metal hoop binding and black covers. Contains varied woven fabric samples with small, polychrome repeating patterns. A few samples have printed patterns. Some samples towards the back...

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Gathering : a book dust book

Greene, Barbara; McDowall, John (1953-)

2006

By Barbara Green and John McDowall. Artists' book. Printings of the dust surrounding removed books. ""Gatherings" presents the index of their trace in dust of absent books. This collaborative projec...

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Cook book note book

Joicey, Magda; Carter, Angela (1940-1992); Bawden, Edward (1903-1989)

1946

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Books

14 Nov 2001– 27 Nov 2001

Research and notes for an article explaining how to choose the best cookery books. Press Releases for several popular options

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Books

1956-1959

Two books owned by and gifted to Bridget Riley.

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Archive Sub-series

Books

c.1931-1987

Four books kept by Kathleen Raven, including two volumes of 'The University of Leeds: the first half-century' by A.N. Shimmin, presented to Raven in 1956.

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