Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 927 records

Total number of records: 927

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection309
English Literature72
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society45
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society17
Quaker Collection11
Liddle Collection6
Ripon Cathedral6
Herbert Read Collection5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4
Leeds Russian Archive4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
nobility15
heraldry14
history14
political science14
historic buildings12
world war, 1914-191812
popish plot, 167811
finance9
church and state8
elections6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain927
Ireland42
France17
England11
Europe9
United States9
Hull (England)6
Soviet Union6
Spain6
Germany5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain98
Great Britain. Parliament64
Hume, David (1711-1776)62
Cobbett, William (1763-1835)37
Cobbett, William36
Hansard, T C (1776-1833)36
Hansard, T. C36
Wright, John36
Wright, John (1770?-1844)36
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)33

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15005
From 1600191
From 1700324
From 1800312
From 190093
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15995
Up to 1699173
Up to 1799334
Up to 1899315
Up to 199998
Up to latest1

Archive Print Item

The whole proceeding to judgment upon the articles of impeachment of high treason : exhibited by the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled... against James Earl of Derwentwater, William Lord Widdrington, William Earl of Nithisdale, Robert Earl of Carnwath, William Viscount Kenmure, and William Lord Nairn, in Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the ninth day of February, 1715

Derwentwater, James Radcliffe Earl of (1689-1716); Widdrington, William Widdrington Baron (1678-1743); Nithsdale, William Maxwell Earl of (1676-1744); Carnwath, Robert Dalyell Earl of (1737); Kenmure, William Gordon Viscount (1716); Nairne, William Nairne Baron (1724)

1716

Signatures: [A]-F².

More details


Archive Print Item

Epistola studiosi Oxoniensis, ad mercatorem Lundinensem patruum, statum controversiae hodie-Anglicae strictim designans

1643

An argument on the Royalist side. Translation of "A letter from a scholler in Oxfordshire". An answer to "A moderate and most proper reply". Anon. Madan 1575.

More details


Archive Print Item

Le patriote anglois, ou Reflexions sur les hostilités que la France reproche à l'Angleterre, et sur la réponse de nos ministres au dernier mémoire de Sa M. T. C

Le Blanc, Jean-Bernard (1707-1781)

1756

A pseudo-translation. This is really an anti-British work. Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie. According to Knuttel, this title was actually published in Paris. Errata, p. [1] at end. Include...

More details


Archive Print Item

The collection of the history of England

Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)

1626

Title within ornamental border (McKerrow & Ferguson 147). Printed by N. Okes (his device (McKerrow 381) on t.p.). The 5 leaves of preliminaries comprise the privilege, t.p., dedication (A2) and "C...

More details


Archive Print Item

Memoirs of the secret services of John Macky, Esq; during the reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I

Macky, John (1726); Macky, Spring

printed in the year 1733

The dedication is signed: A. R. A collection of biographical studies.

More details


Archive Print Item

Atlas of royal Britain

Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh; Barling, Jenny; Bancroft-Hunt, Norman

1984

"A QED book"--Verso t.p. Authors: Jenny Barling... [et al.]. Artists and photographers: Norman Bancroft-Hunt ...[et al.] -- reverse of t.p.

More details


Archive Print Item

Histoire d'Angleterre (v.1)

Rapin Thoyras, Paul de (1661-1725)

1740

Title vignette. Pages 194 and 615 in vol. 3 wrongly numbered 192 and 516.

More details


Archive Print Item

Histoire d'Angleterre (v.2)

Rapin Thoyras, Paul de (1661-1725)

1740

Title vignette. Pages 194 and 615 in vol. 3 wrongly numbered 192 and 516.

More details


Archive Print Item

Histoire d'Angleterre (v.3)

Rapin Thoyras, Paul de (1661-1725)

1740

Title vignette. Pages 194 and 615 in vol. 3 wrongly numbered 192 and 516.

More details


Archive Print Item

Histoire d'Angleterre (v.4)

Rapin Thoyras, Paul de (1661-1725)

1740

Title vignette. Pages 194 and 615 in vol. 3 wrongly numbered 192 and 516.

More details