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Total number of records: 132

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Books and printed items107
Textiles13
Archives12

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Brotherton Collection18
International Textile Collection13
English Literature7
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4
Herbert Read Collection3
Cookery Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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physiognomy4
comparative government3
monarchy3
republics3
art2
cooking2
democracy2
ethics2
protestantism2
reformation2

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Switzerland132
France26
Germany23
Italy20
Austria13
Basel6
Great Britain5
Alps4
Europe4
Geneva (Switzerland)4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Coxe, William (1747-1828)13
Nicolai, Friedrich (1733-1811)12
Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)7
Karl Baedeker (Firm)7
Ramond, Louis-Francois7
Ramond, Louis-Francois (1755-1827)7
Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)5
Melmoth, William5
Melmoth, William (1710?-1799)5
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)4

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From 170044
From 180042
From 190035
From 20003

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Up to 179944
Up to 189937
Up to 199938
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Archive Sub-collection

Print items of Janina and Zygmunt Bauman

c.1950-2017

Books and journals from the library of Zygmunt Bauman and Janina Bauman. Mainly containing items featuring their own work (books, articles by Zygmunt Bauman or Janina Bauman).

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Pack of Tarot cards, (78 cards).

c.1810 - c.1939

Box of 78 colour-printed tarot cards. In cardboard box [no lid] with DUR [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe's] bookplate underneath. Inside the box is an extract from a sellers catalogue which describes the ca...

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Archive File

Mar, 1997, Zurich

Sep 1996 - Mar 1997

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture and seminar as part of a project called "Interentionen 1997" for the Museum of Art and Design, Zurich. Lecture titled "Art, Death and D...

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Dec, 2001, Geneva

Oct 2001 - Dec 2001

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's attendance at a conference in Geneva on 8 December 2001 titled “Project Echange de regards sur Porto Alegre" regarding Porto Alegre and participatory democ...

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University of Fribourg, Oct, 1999, Bern

Apr 1999 - Oct 1999

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled “Local Orders, Global Chaos” at the "Ordnung, Risiko und Gefährdung" (Order, Risk and Danger) conference. (University of Fr...

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Nov, 2004, Lichenstein, Zurich,

Jun 2004 - Nov 2004

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "what modernity" as part of a symposium "On site/ Modernities and Mobiltiies." (‘Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 11-13 Nov 2004)

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Aug, 1996, Lucerne

Jun 1996 - Aug 1996

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled"Postmodern Reason : Chance or Threat to Morality" at the "Ethics, Rationality and Reason". (Aug-Sep 1996 Ethica)

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Aug, 1996, Lucerne

Jul 1996 - Au 1996

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's contribution to the annual conference of the "Societas Ethica" in Lucerne August 1996.

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Jul, 1994, Bluche

Sep 1993 - Jul 1994

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt and Janina Bauman's delivery of lectures at the conference for the Association for the advancement of Education for Democracy AED July 1994.

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First International Congress of Nephrology, at Geneva and Evian, 1960

1 Sep 1959-8 Sep 1960

Includes: correspondence arranging for Parson's attendance at the Congress, held between 1-4 September 1960; copies of the conference brochures for 1959 and 1960; and a copy of a British European Airw...

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Archive Print Item

Atlas der schweizerischen Volkskunde = Atlas de folklore Suisse

Geiger, Paul (1887-1952); Weiss, Richard

[ca. 1949?]

Sample text and maps from the Atlas, with details of publication programme and cost.

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