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Brotherton Collection1960
International Textile Collection884
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture690
English Literature654
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society343
Liddle Collection269
Herbert Read Collection172
Cookery Collection154
Leeds Russian Archive148
Letters Database118

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)258
Marchini, Guido220
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)95
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)77
Montgomery, James (1771-1854)77
Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894)68
Greene, Graham (1904-1991)57
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)53
Pesel, Louisa F52
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)51

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Archive File

Green

c. 1960 - 2015

Cuttings from various auction catalogues of furniture by makers trading under the name 'Green'.

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Archive Print Item

Green

Clark, Tom (1941-)

1971

Poems.

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Archive Print Item

Green-Green : or, The nunnery parrot. A poem

Gresset, Jean Baptiste Louis (1709-1777)

1762

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Green Abstract
Painting

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GREEN, S

1914-1918

(1898-) (Typescript) Driver/Gunner, Royal Field Artillery; Detailed memoirs of his Service from enlistment in Bradford in 1915 to 1919, which includes Egypt, Salonika and Palestine; (41 pages).

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Thorp Green
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Thorp Green

30 March 1843

Single page torn from notebook containing manuscript draft of poem titled 'Thorp Green' The upper half is written in ink and the lower half is written in pencil. Part of a group of manuscripts (BC M...

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Strand on the Green
Painting

Strand on the Green

Bowyer, Jason (1957-2019)

c. 1997

Framed, unglazed.

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GREEN, WH

1970-1999

(1897-) (Tape 551/ Transcript). 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment; Describes in detail trench life on the Somme and the Y...

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Painting

Green Field

Elderfield, John (1943-)

1965

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GREEN, ADA

1914-1922, 1939-1954

Wallet containing certificate of employment and anti-gas instructions (nd); Postcard from F Green (son), a POW (Prisoner of War) at Dülmen in in Germany (6 Jan 1918); Soldier's Service and Pay Book (...

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GREEN, A E

1911-1919

Manuscript letters, with some typed summary notes (1911-1919); Miscellaneous papers.

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Green, John

Mid-Late 20th Century

Letters; Various papers relating to his severe wounding in Italy and recuperation in British hospitals; Typescript entitled 'Life Story'.

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