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Total number of records: 373

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items363
Archives10

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection125
English Literature119
Leeds Russian Archive50
Quaker Collection15
Herbert Read Collection7
Liddle Collection4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2
Ripon Cathedral2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
theater373
english drama27
actors25
sermons, english23
théâtre14
drama10
french drama8
latin drama, medieval and modern8
theaters8
farce7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
France11
Soviet Union10
Russia (Federation)8
England5
Nigeria4
Russia3
Africa2
Germany2
South Africa2
Sub-Saharan Africa2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Inchbald, Mrs (1753-1821)32
Best, Thomas (1787-1865)23
Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)17
Moskovskii Khudozhestvennyi Akademicheskii Teatr12
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-172611
Baker, David Erskine (1730-1767)10
Collier, John Payne (1789-1883)10
Genest, John (1764-1839)10
Meskheteli, V E9
Shakespeare, William, 1564-16169

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 160025
From 170069
From 1800152
From 1900126

Count of Latest date

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Up to 15991
Up to 169925
Up to 179967
Up to 1899152
Up to 1999128

Archive Collection

George Wilson Knight Archive

Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)

c.1916-1997

Comprises: (1) Knight's letters to: a) Francis Berry, 1931-1985; b) John Duncan Christie, 1962-1985; and c) John E. Van Domelen, especially concerning the latter's biography of Knight, 'The Tarza...

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Alec Baron, archive compiled by Baron relating to theatrical life in Leeds from the late 1920s to the 1950s, principally Leeds Unity Theatre, supplemented by material relating to Leeds Film Theatre and world cinema.

Baron, Alec (1913-1991)

1928-1991

Archive compiled by Alec Baron relating to theatrical life in Leeds from the late 1920s to the 1950s, principally Leeds Unity Theatre, supplemented by material relating to Leeds Film Theatre and world...

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ANDREEV, Leonid (1871-1919) (26) (WHITE)

[1909], 1997

Postcard of scene from L N Andreev "Dni nashei zhizni" production, Moscow, [1909] /1/. Programme and fliers for L N Andreev "He Who Gets Slapped" production, Culver City, USA, 1997 /2-4/.

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RUSSIAN BALLET (Nesta Macdonald)

1881-1994

Photocopies of: letters from S P Diagilev to family (6, 1881, 1885, nd) /1-6/; S P Diagilev song to words by A K Tolstoi, [1887] /7-8/; Perm' theatre posters, 1884-1885 /9-10/; Perm' official document...

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Archive File

AUSTIN, SUMNER F

1914-1918

Typescript recollections (nd); 6 photographs, including three of theatre productions (1917, nd); Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (Oct 1977).

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BARTON, T ARTHUR

1914-1918

'Ruhleben Camp Magazine' Vol. II, No. 5 (Dec 1916); Photograph of theatre production (nd); 12 postcards (8 Dec 1914-2 Sep 1918).

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Archive File

BURGOYNE, J E G (SANDY)

1914-1918

Christmas card (Dec 1914); 23 photographs, some autographed (1914-1917).

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EDEN, SIR TIMOTHY

1914-1918

2 photocopied sketchbooks (1914-1915); Photocopied correspondence and papers relating to attempts to secure the release of British Civil Prisoners of War interned at Ruhleben (1916-1917); Papers and p...

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Archive File

Scrapbook containing prints of actors and actresses

c.1825-1875

Cuttings have been taken from a variety of unattributed sources and include some late-18th-century plates

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The diary of Philip Henslowe, from 1591 to 1609

Henslowe, Philip (1616); Collier, John Payne (1789-1883)

1845

Contains forged interpolations ascribed to Collier. cf. Catalogue of the manuscripts and muniments, Alleyn's college at Dulwich, by G. F. Warner, 1881, p. xxxvi-xlvii; Henslowe's Diary, ed. by W. W. G...

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An apology for actors : In three books

Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Collier, John Payne (1789-1883); Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)

1841

With reproduction of original t.-p. Edited by John Payne Collier.

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Thespis on tryal : or, The moralitie of playes considered

Geier, John

1887

Limited edition of 275 copies.

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