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Total number of records: 14563

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Record typeCount
Archives7592
Books and printed items6884
Indexes57
Textiles13
People and organisations12
Art items4
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman4394
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2187
Brotherton Collection1304
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections625
English Literature521
Leeds Russian Archive476
Herbert Read Collection178
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society168
Feminist Archive North140
University Archive124

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture2057
english language - dialects1991
latin language1348
english language1187
community life652
greek language605
french language583
language and languages548
occupations499
folk music484

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England55
Rome50
Great Britain35
Northumberland29
Spain19
Soviet Union16
Asia15
Italy15
Wales15
Denmark13

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)291
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)131
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)123
Russell, Ian90
Voitl, Herbert72
Dunn, Ginette71
Murray, Lindley (1745-1826)59
Fox, George (1624-1691)53
Sullivan, Keith Frederick53
Fothergill, George William48

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From 190010610
From 2000203

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Archive Series

Central Language Laboratory / The Language Centre

1963-2004

1. File titled: ‘Documents inherited from J. D. Fox concerning setting up of Lang. Labs’, 1963-70 2. Central Language Laboratory: Annual Reports, 1970-89 3. Grants - Running Expenses an...

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Their silence a language

Hooker, Jeremy (1941-); Grandjean, Lee

1993

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The Language of Yes

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1995-1997

This series concerns items relating to Crossley-Holland's poetry collection 'The Language of Yes' (1996), including correspondence, proofs, and a copy of the collection as published.

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The language of yes

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1996

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Language Instruction

1914-1918

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The French language

Ewert, A (1891-1969)

[1933]

"Select bibliography": pages 399-406.

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The study of languages

Le Mesurier Chepmell, Havilland

1827

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The Language of Storytelling

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study which examines the telling of the same story to the collector by two different informants. Both concern a local character known as Buttonsticks, and were related to the collector in July 1979....

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Language on the map

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1977]

Reprinted from the University of Leeds review, vol. 20, 1977.

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Language on the map

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1977]

Reprinted from the University of Leeds review, vol. 20, 1977.

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Language on the map

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1977]

Reprinted from the University of Leeds review, vol. 20, 1977.

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