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Total number of records: 74648

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	73354
Objects	988
Art items	296
Indexes	9
Coins	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	18563
Liddle Collection	11076
English Literature	6085
Quaker Collection	4239
Leeds Poetry	3701
University Archive	3176
Art and Antique Market	2677
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History	1949
Herbert Read Collection	1786
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	1696

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
culture	1100
world war, 1914-1918	883
letters	830
physics	685
english language - dialects	666
community life	534
photographs	400
english poetry	399
education	351
correspondence	341

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
London, United Kingdom	267
England	152
Italy	104
Genoa, Italy	61
Leeds, United Kingdom	56
Germany	54
Leeds	51
Poland	42
London	35
Denmark	27

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
English National Opera North	1375
Opera North	1375
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)	740
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)	582
National Women'S Aid Federation	272
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)	246
Women'S Aid	244
Women'S Aid Federation England	244
Women'S Aid Federation of England	244
Crossley-Holland, Kevin	209

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 800	3
From 900	4
From 1000	12
From 1100	179
From 1200	17
From 1300	37
From 1400	36
From 1500	360
From 1600	1090
From 1700	2419
From 1800	9396
From 1900	55244
From 2000	5850

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 999	1
Up to 1099	1
Up to 1299	7
Up to 1399	20
Up to 1499	26
Up to 1599	278
Up to 1699	850
Up to 1799	1815
Up to 1899	7631
Up to 1999	54078
Up to latest	9940

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Walter Consitt Boulter. A Biography of Archbishop Holgate; a facsimile reproduction of a manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York, together with notes by Frank Harrison Woodward. [(?)York], Archbishop Holgate Society, record series no. 2, [(?)1949]

1949

24 pp [text continued on wrappers]

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1952 Eschatology : Scottish Journal of Theology, Occasional paper no. 2 (1953, repr 1957)

1957

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Ad Incensum Lucernae

1974

Photocopy of ink full score. Donated by the composer in 1974.

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Correspondence with John Saville

1988-1989

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“Temporary List of uncatalogued Gosse material”

1976

Loose MS pages; typescript with ink amendments; 2pp; June 1976

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Catalogue of an exhibition by Anthony Gross at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1968; notes on an exhibition by him at Woodland House, Blackheath, 1972; note of items for Leeds exhibition; list of sales; two priced catalogues (one with note of sales); note of etchings returned or retained.

1968

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ABRAMS, E

1914-1918

Manuscript and typescript recollections; Photographs; Postcards; Spoon; Cap badge; East Anglian Division Christmas cards (1918).

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The file contains photocopies of letters from Ackroyd to his daughter, Ursula. Alos includes letters of condolence to his wife Mabel after his death in August 1917. There are photographs of Ackroyd ...

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