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Total number of records: 264

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Brotherton Collection57
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Letters Database15
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Chevrieres, Jean Guillaume De7
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)6
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Fontana, Felice (1730-1805)5
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Gibelin, Jacques (1744-1828)5
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)5
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Greenwood, C (1786-1855)4
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Union News, issue 352
Archive Item

Archive Print piece

A Midsummer Night's Dream. V. i. 352 - V. i. 445

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (162)

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Archive File

(Arr.) Elgar: Triumphal March from Caractacus

1951

1951 2pf rev. 1984 Ink. With a second copy, a photocopy of the above..

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Archive File

French military documents, ca.1759-ca.1794, mostly from the Dépôt général de la guerre, concerning an invasion of England

c.1759-c.1794

Undated copies of documents containing military evaluations of English defences and of a French invasion of England

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 46 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gaius Considius Paetus

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Textile

Class E Plain and Figured Mantlings, Autumn 1893

Yorkshire College

1893

A hardback with black spine (both covers missing), red labels and gold text on spine. Book no.1. Contains woven fabric samples. At the front of the book these are monochrome. Most samples are blac...

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Soieries Hiver 1954 pour échantillonnage Hiver 1955 Envoi F
Textile

Soieries Hiver 1954 pour échantillonnage Hiver 1955 Envoi F

Courtaulds Ltd.; Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1954-1955

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including jacquard weave, satin, crepe and voile. Woven patterning in 1-5 colours includes plaid, stripes, d...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Circle of natural coloured, twill woven linen with a transfer printed repeating floral design, part worked in coloured wools in a variety of crewel worked wool embroidery stitches. The linen is raw ed...

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Archive Item

Heavy going

22-Feb-1930

Nation & Athenaeum, 22nd February 1930, pp. 708-709. Review of Sidney Lee, Elizabethan and other essays

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Letter from: Hon Leopold Oliver Russell, Flat 2, 17 Onslow Square, London SW7; 1st May 1963

01/05/1963

Development of the Commonwealth Association in a preelection period. 2ff.

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