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Total number of records: 266

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Archives190
Books and printed items70
Indexes5
Art items1

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Collection groupCount
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman94
Leeds Russian Archive49
Brotherton Collection25
English Literature12
University Archive10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9
Leeds Poetry4
Letters Database4
Ripon Cathedral4

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SubjectCount
furniture10
furniture design10
culture9
draperies8
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.8
letters8
seating (furniture)8
english language - dialects7
community life6
fishing6

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Great Britain6
Cavaillon (France)2
Comtat Venaissin (France)2
Provence (France)2
Yorkshire (England)2
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1
Ancona (Italy)1
Genoa, Italy1
Istanbul (Turkey)1
Kowal (Poland)1

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People and organisationsCount
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)25
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8
Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941)8
Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889)8
Orleans, Pierre Joseph D' (1641-1698)4
Suetonius (69-122)4
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)2
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2

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From 15002
From 160018
From 170017
From 180038
From 1900182
From 20005

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Up to 189928
Up to 199985
Up to latest115

Archive File

Letter from Ernest Briggs, Junior Constitutional Club, Piccadilly; to Mary Briggs.

7 February 1895

Wishing her a happy birthday. MS, signed. 1f.

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Archive Print Item

The light upon the candlestick : first published in Latin

Furly, Benjamin (1636-1714)

1767

This anonymous work, originally published in Latin as "Lucerna super candelabrum". has been attributed to Peter Balling and to Adam Boreel. Furly's English version is translated from the Dutch transla...

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Archive File

June 05 - October 05 folder part

Opera North

2005

Newspaper and magazine cuttings. Categories include misc., recordings, capital development, new composers' forum, orchestra reviews, orchestra misc., awards, Arts Council, education, sponsorship, Oper...

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Archive Item

Quitclaim

[14th century]

1. Thomas de Hayton of Seleby 2. John son of Robert de Sywardeb Thomas has quitclaimed to John all the tenements which Thomas had by gift of Peter de Brus the third in Camelesford or in his territ...

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Lease for one year for possession of the manor of Plompton

1 Oct 1655

1 Sir Edward Plompton of Plomton, knight; Anthony Plompton and Edward Plompton, his second and third sons

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'The Constitutions of the Inglish Academie'

1635

'A Breife of some Constitutions agreed upon by the Regent, and Professors of the Academye which Concerne the Noblemen and Gentlemen there instituted What they shall pay And what benefitt they shall Re...

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Gift with warranty

14th century

1. Edmund le Normaund of Chivet 2. Thomas son of Robert de Wambewelle Edmund has given to Thomas six acres of land in Chivet of which five acres lie in Ayilsirode and Whetelay between the land of ...

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Joyce

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1968-1982

This file contains items collected by Hill relating to James Joyce. Includes promotional information for B.J. Tysdahl's 'Joyce and Ibsen: A Study in Literary Influence' (1968); a clipping of a photogr...

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