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Total number of records: 819

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Books and printed items756
Archives59
Indexes4

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection156
Leeds Russian Archive140
Cookery Collection103
Herbert Read Collection71
Liddle Collection34
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society27
English Literature20
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture15
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections11
Quaker Collection8

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SubjectCount
world war, 1914-191854
gastronomy37
cooking25
wine and wine making23
art12
cooking, french7
food7
jews7
inscriptions6
music6

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PlaceCount
Soviet Union15
Russia14
Great Britain11
Denmark9
Iceland8
England5
France4
Germany4
Oseberg (Norway)4
Norway3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Simon, Andre Louis (1877-1970)78
Remizov, Aleksei Mikhailovich (1877-1957)30
Wine and Food Society26
Hesse, Hermann (1877-1962)23
Gibbs, Philip (1877-1962)18
Helgi Valtysson (1877-)17
Simon, Andre Louis15
Sundwall, Johannes (1877-)15
Helgi Valtysson12
Shetelig, Haakon (1877-1955)12

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From 1900806
From 200013

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Up to 1999793
Up to latest26

Sender: Knott, G.H.

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 Feb 1917

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence


Archive Item

WHITE, Duklida (nee Davies) (1916-1988)

1947-2003

D White correspondence with R D Davies (also copy of 1971 letter to Sir J Balfour with biographical details) (14, 1984-1986) /1-14/.

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CHARNOCK, Edward (1877-1967)

1967, 1977

Photocopies of: M G McNay 'Trouble at t'mill', "Guardian", ? October 1967 /1/; Carolyn Brown `The spy who returned to the cold', "Southport Visiter", 22 October 1977 /2/.

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Adolf Beck (1877-1904)

Beck, Adolf (1841-1909); Watson, Eric Russell (1879?-1927)

[1924]

Case of mistaken identity; Beck was tried in the Old Bailey for larceny, 1896, convicted, served five years in prison, was again indicted and convicted in 1904. Sentence was suspended and a court of i...

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William Lovett, 1800-1877

Hammond, Barbara (1873-1962); Fabian Society (Great Britain)

1922

With a portrait on the front wrapper.

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[Covi (Cauvi-Stavraki) A M?]

1957

(1957) (letter from V N Bunina and L F Zurov) 1f; MS; Russian

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Sir Herbert Read's theory of aesthetic education

Keel, John Siegfried (1925-)

1960

Includes bibliographical references.

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Cephalopod Fossil

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1968

Part of a fossilised cephalopod shell found in a quarry at Leyburn ( Wensleydale). Kissling gave the fossil to Leyburn Grammar School.

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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the Germans

J.H. Butler. Letter 3/6/15. On seeing wounded men 'I can quite understand how men stick prisoners and wounded when they get the chance…I was quite mad with fury for a bit'. 28.10.15. Germans in opposite trench 'were not very wicked'…'used to shout at us at night and did not do much firing'.


Archive Item

Index Card: Pevensy Bay 1877

1978

Creator of work: Henry George Hine RI

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THOMSON, William Montgomerie (1877-1963)

1924, 1997

Photocopy of W M ('Wiggy') Thomson "Trans-Caucasia, 1918-1919" (1924) /1/. Offprint of B Pearce publication of 1, "Revolutionary Russia" (London), vol 10, no 1 (1997) /2/.

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