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Total number of records: 646

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items635
Archives11

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection70
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society26
Leeds Russian Archive13
English Literature7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections7
Quaker Collection5
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman4
Ripon Cathedral4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
law646
law reports, digests, etc68
political science60
history44
equity25
law, germanic22
swedish language17
customary law14
state, the12
jurisprudence11

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain17
Scotland6
France3
Iceland3
Normandy (France)3
Bordeaux (France)2
Germany2
Holy Roman Empire2
Lille (France)2
Norway2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain73
Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780)44
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot De (1709-1785)44
Great Britain. Record Commission31
Scotland31
Scotland. Parliament29
Iceland26
Innes, Cosmo (1798-1874)25
Thomson, Thomas (1768-1852)25
Viner, Charles (1678-1756)24

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 150010
From 160086
From 1700212
From 1800228
From 1900107
From 20003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15997
Up to 169986
Up to 1799212
Up to 1899179
Up to 1999154
Up to latest8

Archive Sub-collection

WARE Collection

1988-1997

R Ware, F M Watson "Democracy after Communism: Research Paper" (House of Commons Library, 1996) /1/. R Ware "The New Russia - Five Years On: Research Paper" (House of Commons Library, 1997) /2/. Pub...

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(A2) Research and papers : 2002-2004 [with some 2015-2016]

c.1999 - 2016

Research material mainl;y from periods 2002-2004 and 2015-2016. Includes: Off prints of articles by various c. 1999- 2004; press release from Vatican; draft typescript "A suitable amount of crime" ...

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(A3) Research and papers by Zygmunt Bauman: 2001-2014

c.2001 - c.2014

Includes printouts and copies of works by various others including; Gyorgy Markus; Max Pensky; Maria Renata Markus; several by Loïc Wacquant (on ghettoes; crime; urban sociology) Also includes: ...

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(A4) Notes and papers :2013-2014

c.2000-c.2016

Papers and correspondence mainly relating to requests for Zygmunt Bauman to review work, proposals or attend events mainly covering 2013-2014. Mainly includes printouts and copies of works by variou...

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(A5) Reference material and papers : 2000-2001

c.1996-c.2001

Mainly works by other authors (offprints, typescript papers, photocopies of articles, periodicals) including copy of "Echoes" -Post Modernity project publication; some with attached correspondence. Au...

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A glossary of legal terms compiled by John Stanhope

Stanhope, John

1722-c.1723

A glossary of legal terms taken from various treatises and reports

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Select cases and commentary on settlement in poor law, by John Stanhope and one other

Stanhope, John

c.1750

The cases and commentary by Stanhope are preceded, in another hand, by further reports on cases in King's Bench on poor law settlement

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An institute of the law, by John Stanhope

Stanhope, John

c.1750

Three-volume manuscript book, surveying English common law. Vol. I (vi, 408, [8] pp.): Actions upon torts (slander, malicious prosecution, assault & battery, false imprisonment, negligence, adultery, ...

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A dictionary of English law, probably compiled by John Stanhope

Stanhope, John (1631-1694)

c.1670-1700

Mostly original foliation. The subject index (now shelved as MS 532a) was formerly inserted loose inside the volume.

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Autobiography, by Herbert Thompson
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Autobiography, by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1940

Contains recollections of the author's life and career, including his Yorkshire ancestry; earliest recollection, of the death of the Prince Consort in 1861; school in Wiesbaden, 1872-73; St John's Col...

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