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Total number of records: 2998

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Indexes207
Art items31
People and organisations11
Textiles8
Objects4

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Business Archives1500
Brotherton Collection374
Letters Database178
English Literature141
Liddle Collection135
Herbert Read Collection76
South Bank Show Production Archive74
Leeds Russian Archive65
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture61
Cookery Collection53

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culture55
visual arts50
english language - dialects35
community life32
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Top 10: People and organisations

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)67
Gosse, Edmund37
Michael Ernest (Sir) Or Lady Sadler22
Gosse, Ellen, Lady20
Smith, Lady Eleanor Furneaux (1902-1945)20
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)16
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)16
Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946)16
Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948-15
Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-199714

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From 2000113

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Up to latest186

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The lady

Michaeljohn, Kate

1997

Contains article about Arthur Ransome on p.74: "Ransome's Harvest" / by Kate Michaeljohn.

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The letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield (v.1)

Disraeli, Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881); Bradford, Selina Louisa Forester Bridgman Countess of (1894); Chesterfield, Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Countess of (1802-1885); Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of (1876-)

1929

New York ed. (Appleton) has title: The letters of Disraeli to Lady Chesterfield and Lady Bradford.

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The letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield (v.2)

Disraeli, Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881); Bradford, Selina Louisa Forester Bridgman Countess of (1894); Chesterfield, Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Countess of (1802-1885); Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of (1876-)

1929

New York ed. (Appleton) has title: The letters of Disraeli to Lady Chesterfield and Lady Bradford.

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*ASHTON, Lady.

1970-1999

(Tape 342); Domestic Front; Schoolgirlhood in East Anglia (Southwold).

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*HARKNESS, Lady

1970-1999

(Tape 693). Nursing - 1913 at 1st Western General Hospital; Overseas posting to the Territorial Nursing Service but on way to Egypt was torpedoed outside Alexandria harbour in HMT Aragon.

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The royal ladies

Robyns, Gwen

c1969

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TROWER, LADY

1914-1918

Photographs; Photocopied papers; Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (June 1979).

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CHAMPION, Lady

1914-1918

(1893-) (Transcripts of Tapes 405/411) Life in London working for the Quakers until 1916 when she transferred to Military Intelligence (MI 5) as a typist/clerk.

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COLGRAIN, Lady

1914-1918

Madge, Lady Colgrain. Manuscript detailing family history, life in Egypt, Mediterranean voyages and support work in a hospital in Kent as a VAD

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HAWORTH, Lady

1914-1918

(1901-) (Typescript) Brief details of childhood experiences (2 copies)

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Travelling ladies

Keefer, Janice Kulyk (1953-)

1990

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Love's lady

Smith, Margaret Lyon

c1930

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