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Total number of records: 383

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Books and printed items318
Archives49
Indexes12
People and organisations4

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Cookery Collection119
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society67
Brotherton Collection62
English Literature24
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
Letters Database6
Ripon Cathedral4
Art and Antique Market2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2

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cooking20
cooking, english17
food10
home economics10
confectionery6
counties6
english language6
gastronomy6
dinners and dining5
menus5

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Great Britain75
England16
Ireland6
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Great Britaine4
Gret Britain3
British Isles2
Essex (England)2
Wales2
Cambridge (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Camden, William (1551-1623)83
Seller, John (1698-)22
Seller, John21
Camden, William19
Grose, Francis (1731?-1791)17
Gough, Richard (1735-1809)16
Gibson, Edmund (1669-1748)14
Camden Society (Great Britain)13
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)12
Gibson, Edmund10

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From 170076
From 1800235

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Up to 169947
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Up to 1899239

Sender: Camden

Recipient: "Townshend"

Letters: 1

Date(s): [4 Aug 1793 ?]

Location: BC Sydney/Townshend: File Q3

Title: Verses address'd to old Camden's picture, at Lord Camden's in

Kent. Apr. 1766

Author: Davies, Sneyd

Attribution: Sneyd Davies

Date(s): 1766 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 19

Contents: Extravagant praise of Lord Camden, formerly Charles Pratt,

addressed to a portrait of his late father Sir John Pratt. With

a prose note "This picture (an original) which formerly hung in

the same house in Camden's time, was lately made a present of,

to L

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Sender: Edwards, William Camden

Recipient: French, Josiah

Letters: 2

Date(s): 24 Jun 1841; 5 Jul 1841

Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Edwards

Note: The material was formerly bound into a volume which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.


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Report of the Cambridge Camden Society for MDCCCXL

Cambridge Camden Society

1840

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Sender: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Recipient: Hotten, John Camden

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 May 1873

Location: BC Misc, S/WD letters

Note: Autograph copy, with draft for it by Watts-Dunton revised by Swinburne.

Title: To Charles Pratt Esq now Lord Camden, 1747

Author: Davies, Sneyd

Attribution: Sneyd Davies

Date(s): 1743 (Ragnarsson)

Manuscript: Lt q 19

Contents: Address to Charles Pratt, later Lord Camden, reviewing their

long friendship, regretting the passing of youth, and urging

him to win fame in the world

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Camden's Britannia : newly translated into English, with large additions and improvements

Camden, William (1551-1623); Gibson, Edmund (1669-1748)

1695

Contains 50 maps including the counties of England, maps of North and South Wales, etc. Most of the maps bear the name of Robert Morden. Sutton Nicholls and John Sturt appear as engravers on a few of ...

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The history of pews : a paper read before the Cambridge Camden Society

Neale, J M (1818-1866)

1842

Anonymous author: John Mason Neale.

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The abridgment of Camden's Britannia with the maps of the seuerall shires of England and Wales

Camden, William (1551-1623)

1626

Engraved title-page. Fifty-one small maps of the counties of England and Wales, which are chiefly remarkable as being the earliest individual county maps to show latitude and longitude.

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