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Indexes11
Coins1
Objects1
Textiles1

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society55
Brotherton Collection24
Quaker Collection11
Liddle Collection8
Leeds Russian Archive7
University Archive7
Letters Database6
English Literature5
Herbert Read Collection5
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5

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business ethics6
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society of friends5
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folk music4
art3
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letters3
photographs3
quaker church buildings3

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France1
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rigge, Ambrose (1635?-1705)13
Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting6
Baldwin, John R4
Society of Friends4
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Cross, Paul3
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)2
Fairfax, William ?2
Forster, Ernst2
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2

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St. Paul (fol. 493r)
Archive Piece

St. Paul (fol. 493r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'P' shows St. Paul holding a sword, the instrument of his martyrdom.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 96 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gaius Publicius Malleolus; Aulus Postumius S.f. Albinus;; Lucius Metellus

Place: Rome

Material: silver

stencil
Textile

stencil

early 19th-mid 20th Century

This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, has a pattern of dense stripes composed of short lines and paired dots possibly representing a stylisation of horsetail sedge (Equisetum sp.). ...

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Archive Print Item

Piety promoted : ou la pieté promuë, ou avancée: contenant un recueil des derniéres heures de plusieurs de ceux qu'on apelle les Quakers, qui veut dire les Trembleurs. Avec une exhortation préfixe, tirée des ecrits de Guillaume Penn. Et un extrait sommaire de la preface inferée au premier livre

Tomkins, John (1663-1706); Field, John (1652-1723); Bell, John (1681-1761); Gay, Claude (1707?-1786)

1770

Originally compiled by John Tomkins, John Field, and John Bell. Some sections have English and French in parallel columns. P. xx, 1st count, misnumbered 24. Errata, p. xix-[xx]. Index of names...

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Archive Collection

JOSEPH HUNTER'S LETTERS REGARDING COLLECTION OF MATERIAL FOR "SOUTH YORKSHIRE"

1826-1927

24 Letters from Joseph Hunter, Bath, to J G Nichols, Parliament Street, London, regarding printing of "South Yorkshire", with covering letter, 14 March 1927, to E W Crossley from G Clay

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Sender: Lee, John Edward

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Sep 1878

Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Childhood of the World" [no.11]