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Total number of records: 246

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives139
Books and printed items104
Objects2
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection105
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection71
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture44
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive24
English Literature6
Herbert Read Collection3
Ripon Cathedral3
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Cookery Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
death246
persons44
letter writing40
culture29
manners and customs28
family27
legal procedure25
sermons, english23
community life21
occupations19

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy35
London, United Kingdom32
Leeds, United Kingdom2
Lewes, United Kingdom2
Worthing, Uk2
Bradford, United Kingdom1
Fermo, Italy1
Isle of Wight1
Lofoten1
London, United Kindom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)6
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson6
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (1809-1892)6
Haines, Frederick5
Drelincourt, Charles (1595-1669)4
Gatty, Alfred (1813-1903)4
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Sherlock, William (1641?-1707)4
Brooks, Eleanor Stimson3
Carroll, Latrobe3

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From 15002
From 16008
From 170022
From 1800111
From 1900100
From 20003

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Up to 16998
Up to 179917
Up to 1899107
Up to 1999107
Up to latest5

Archive Series

NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla

1838-1904

Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...

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SERLE, Cecilia (née NOVELLO)

1857-1890

Copies of the baptism certificates for two of Cecilia Serle's daughters, an income tax certificate and copies of Cecilia Serle's Will and Probate.

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Archive Sub-series

Posthumous

1969-2015

Material relating to memorial services and lectures, exhibitions and publications. Also includes articles and correspondence concerning Maurice de Sausmarez received by the family after his death on 2...

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Accounts

1896-1903

Mary Sabilla's accounts, expenses, receipts and invoices relating to her later years at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. They include domestic and municipal material, documents relating to the death and...

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Kenneth Leighton quartet

1964-1966

Original Kenneth Leighton notation manuscript of 'Variations for String Quartet' commissioned by Maurice de Sausmarez in memory of his mother Jessie Rose de Sausmarez in 1964, with a printed score pub...

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Parish and Church

[1965-1975]

This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...

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Some Aspects of Oral, Social and Material Tradition in an Industrial Urban Area

McKelvie, Donald

1963

The nine chapters in this Ph.D. thesis describe an approach to collecting folklife material in the cities, towns and villages of West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield), with cha...

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Five Aspects of Woman in North-West Galician Rural Society

Davenport, H

1975

M.A. thesis (School of Special Studies in Spanish) on certain roles of the woman within rural society in the north-west region of Galicia. Chapters cover the physical geographical and social condition...

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Birth, Marriage, Death and Initiation Customs and Beliefs in the Central Sudan

Hamid, Sayed

1966

M.A. study of customs connected with the life cycle in central Sudan. The aim has been to put these in their proper social setting and to give them possible interpretations, whilst also attempting to ...

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Some Aspects of Bakossi Rituals

Alobwede D'Epie, Charles

1974

M.A. dissertation on the ritual life of the Bakossi tribe in south-western Cameroon. The rituals are presented in the light of Bakossi original beliefs and thinking, that is, they are described as the...

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Marriage and Death Ceremonies in Derna, Eastern Libya

El-Darrat, Nasser

1975

Research study, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for a Master's degree in English Literature, which describes and analyses the customs associated with death and marriage in the town...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Vincent and Novello, Mary Sabilla

1821-1823

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello, dating from 24 December 1821 to 25 July 1823 and containing references to Hunt's health, comic v...

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