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Total number of records: 17919

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Record typeCount
Books and printed items13785
Archives3889
People and organisations93
Objects87
Indexes55
Textiles8
Art items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive11789
University Archive1235
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1160
Brotherton Collection846
English Literature668
Womens Aid Federation of England Archive665
Student Newspapers353
Leeds Poetry241
Liddle Collection171
Medical Collections127

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
russian literature482
lgbtq+363
culture330
russian language318
archive administration312
russians276
gay272
english language - dialects224
authors, russian222
community life215

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union1358
Russia798
Russia (Federation)331
Great Britain174
Saint Petersburg (Russia)141
Moscow (Russia)131
France88
Europe72
England70
United States43

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
National Women'S Aid Federation663
Women'S Aid663
Women'S Aid Federation England663
Women'S Aid Federation of England663
Leeds Animation Workshop385
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)254
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)240
Andreyev, Leonid (1871-1919)183
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953153
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904)143

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Archive Item

Archives

1944-2009

This item is part of the second accrual to the collection. It contains documents relating to Downs' service in the army including his discharge certificate, record of service, transfer to the army re...

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Archive Sub-series

‘Archive’

2000-2013

This sub-series contains records maintained by a previous Technical Director, prior to the appointment of Steve Wilkins (2014-).

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Archive Print Item

An archive of time

Lucas, Victoria

[between 2000 and 2009?]

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Archive Print Item

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

Archival material

1955-2000

Includes: Box 1: inventory carried out by John Roty; copies of the Jewish Quarterly 1964-1990 containing works by Jacobs (incomplete run); newspapers mainly Jewish, some in Hebrew, 1955-1980. Bo...

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Archive Series

Archival material

1828-2009

The series includes manuscript notebooks relating to the death of Thomas Thompson, letters, family photographs and articles.

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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 File

‘Trust Archive’

2005-2013

[re multiple Trust applications]

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Archive Series

The Poetry Archive

2005

This file contains material related to 'The Poetry Archive', a permanent archive of audio recordings their work by poets who write in English, that includes Kevin Crossley-Holland. The file includes: ...

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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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