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Total number of records: 14804

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Books and printed items11910
Archives2666
Objects87
People and organisations81
Indexes53
Textiles5
Art items2

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Leeds Russian Archive10174
University Archive1154
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1133
Brotherton Collection587
English Literature428
Student Newspapers320
Leeds Poetry220
Liddle Collection167
Medical Collections115
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society77

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russian literature342
lgbtq+330
culture324
archive administration312
russian language303
gay269
english language - dialects221
community life214
education164
authors, russian144

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Soviet Union1190
Russia635
Russia (Federation)238
Great Britain134
Moscow (Russia)104
Saint Petersburg (Russia)102
France75
Europe63
England38
United States37

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Leeds Animation Workshop277
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)250
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)198
Andreyev, Leonid (1871-1919)151
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904)139
Magarshack, David124
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837)121
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)118
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)115
Carr, Edward Hallett (1892-1982)111

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The Weizmann archives

Yad Chaim Weizmann

[196-?]

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Archive File

University Archive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1960-1980

This file contains original and copy correspondence, and related papers, concerning Stewart Sanderson's activities as an academic folklorist. Its contents seem to have been selected by Sanderson for d...

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Archive Series

Personal Archives

1894-1981

Series of 16 bound volumes containing personal and professional papers compiled by Leslie Pyrah. The material has either been bound into the volume as a guard book, or adhered to individual pages in a...

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Archive Series

Romer Archive

1869-1899

A collection of papers, letters, death duty forms and wills of Lieut-colonel Robert William Romer of the 20th Hussars, Merioneth.

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Archive Sub-collection

ZEMGOR Archive

1910s-1970s

Zemgor is a Russian emigre welfare organisation based in Paris. It originated in Russia during World War I, when two rural and urban local-government and public-service umbrella bodies, Zemskii soiuz ...

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Zemgor archive

Rudnev, V V (1879-1940); Rossiĭskīĭ zemsko-gorodskoĭ komitet pomoshchi rossiĭskim grazhdanam zagranit︠s︡eĭ; Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz; Vserossiĭskiĭ soi︠u︡z gorodov; League of Nations. High Commissioner for Refugees

1910s-1970s

Zemgor (Rossiiskii zemsko-gorodskoi komitet pomoshchi rossiiskim grazhdanam za granitsei) is a Russian charitable organisation established in Paris in 1921 by representatives of the pre-revolutionary ...

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Theatre archives

20th century

This sub-collection has not been fully catalogued. It includes Hodgson's research papers and correspondence relating to the theatre, particularly the works of Alan Ayckbourn. The contents are as foll...

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Archive Collection

Will Foster Archive

Foster, Will (1864-1955)

c.1888-1942

Comprises: (1) 20 play typescripts; (2) Poems in typescript; (3) 'The Jolly Friar', a light opera; (4) Correspondence, 96 letters in 5 envelopes together with 68 reviews and other items in 3 envelopes...

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Thirsk archives

c.1900

Includes pages from 'Yorkshire Notes and Queries' and newspaper cuttings relating to Thirsk. Possibly belonging to Prof. A. Hamilton-Thompson.

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The Shemshāra archives

Eidem, Jesper

1992

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The Shemshāra archives

Eidem, Jesper

1992

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Archives philologiques (t.1)

Reiffenberg, Frédéric-Auguste-Ferdinand-Thomas baron de (1795-1850)

1825-27

Later volumes published with titles: Archives pour servir à l'histoire civile et littéraire des Pays-Bas (-Nouvelles archives historiques des Pays-Bas).

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