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Archives1450
Indexes115
Textiles5
Art items4
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Top 10: Collection group

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Brotherton Collection1645
English Literature647
Quaker Collection401
Leeds Poetry264
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections228
Liddle Collection184
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society174
Ripon Cathedral156
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society135
Art and Antique Market129

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world war, 1914-1918114
churches, quaker54
letters52
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photographs41
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operas37
culture35
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Great Britain272
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Society of Friends274
Fox, George (1624-1691)126
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)118
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)103
Great Britain101
Voltaire (1694-1778)97
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron De (1732-1799)93
Beisson, Francois-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)92
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat Marquis De (1743-1794)92
Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827)92

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Yoxford Response Book - 22Sf3
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Yoxford Response Book - 22Sf3

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

13 Jul 1959 - 18 Jul 1959

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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The outbreak of war : 22nd August - 3rd September, 1939

Great Britain. Ministry of Information

1939

"The statements... collected by the Ministry of Information and are now issued as the first of a series of pamphlets that will be brought out as the war proceeds" -- introductory note.

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3. Streichquartett, für 2 Violinen, Viola und Violoncello, Opus 22

Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)

c1923

Publisher's no.: Edition Schott no. 3435.

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22 jonge Zwitsers : Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 28/3-5/5/1969

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum

[1969]

Exhibition catalogue.

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Letter from Robert Walker to his wife

22 Sep 1785

Walker writes about his illness and sends love to his wife and their children.

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