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Total number of records: 333

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Archives239
Books and printed items61
Indexes18
Art items6
Textiles6
People and organisations3

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture106
Brotherton Collection50
Leeds Animation Workshop44
English Literature31
University Archive26
Liddle Collection18
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections11
Leeds Poetry7
South Bank Show Production Archive7
International Textile Collection6

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occupations55
implements, utensils etc41
community life35
nature35
culture34
home34
animals30
house furnishings29
agriculture25
persons24

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England3
Indonesia3
China2
Romania2
Spain2
Blora1
Cepu1
Garut1
Hangzhou1
Hong Kong1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)50
Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell (1897-1988)13
Blades, Jim11
Sitwell, Edith (1887-1964)11
Horner, Mr M.9
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)6
Alderson, Richard5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Hucklebridge, John5
Neddy Dick5

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From 200020

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Up to 1999257
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Archive Item

Financing of Student Residences, Group on the

1985-1987

Agenda, minutes, supporting papers and correspondence. [Correspondence on membership, May 1985-July 1987; supporting papers, including financial reports, resignation of Student Union President, and su...

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Archive Print Item

Bio auto graphic

Nicholson, Michael C (1962-)

2006

Artist's book. Text and image laid out in a manner reminiscent of a comic strip, based around the artist's life and experiences (in this case reading and observing others reading mainly on public tran...

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Stagecoach

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a stagecoach drawn by a team of four horses, which dates from around 1820. Men and women in period ...

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Photographs of Cecil Roth, Irene Roth, Emmanuel Mané-Katz and Horace Richter

[c 1926–c 1966]

Photograph 1: "Irene Roth at the age of 18 in London" (in pencil on verso). Photograph 2: "Irene Roth as a young women" (in pencil on verso) holding Cecil Roth's dog Bix in her arms. Photograph 3: "...

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Hortus vitae : essays on the gardening of life

Lee, Vernon (1856-1935)

1904

Contents: Dedication.--The garden of life.--In praise of governesses.--On going to the play.--Reading books.--Hearing music.--Receiving letters.--New friends and old.--Other friendships.--A hotel sitt...

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Student Literature, Minutes and Papers

c.1968-1969

Box of student literature, minutes and papers compiled by an ex-student. Includes:

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The power of small : Autumn 2014

Nicholson, Michael C (1962-)

2014

"In a raw examination of a single frustrating, trivial domestic event, artist/writer Mike Nicholson exposes the personal cost of the loss of a hand-held device. How much does a piece of common technol...

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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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Shoemaker's Vice
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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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