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Total number of records: 29

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Archives28
Books and printed items1

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Brotherton Collection8
English Literature6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5
Business Archives3
Medical Collections2
Feminist Archive North1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Herbert Read Collection1
Liddle Collection1
University Archive1

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letters5
business records3
english literature3
textile industry3
english fiction2
english poetry2
anarchism1
art1
art, modern1
communism1

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England1
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding1
West Yorkshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Alston, Lucy (1910-1996)1
Alston, William (1880-1958)1
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)1
Bob Dawson1
Brigg (And Briggs) Family of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex1
Brigg Family of Halifax, West Yorkshire1
Buckels, Alec1
Buckels, Lucy (1881-1967)1
Burder Family1
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)1

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Archive Print Collection

Howard de Walden (Brotherton Collection)

Comprises books acquired by Lord Brotherton from the library of Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden (1880-1946). All items in the collection were bound in Rivière bindings early in ...

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Archive Collection

Arabic, Middle Eastern and Asian Manuscripts

500-2000

The Department of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies has deposited its collection of Middle Eastern and Asian manuscripts in Special Collections. There are over 370 manuscripts in primarily in...

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Archive Collection

PHOTOCOPIES OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO KEIGHLEY IN NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY RECORD OFFICE

(17th century)

1. Photocopy of document in Latin. Reference ZWNB21/16 [n.d.] 2. Photocopy of document in Latin. Reference ZWN/B21/17 [1624] 3. Photocopy of document in Latin. Reference ZWN/B21/18 [n.d.] 4. Photoc...

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Archive Collection

WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS

16th century-19th century

Comprising (a) Correspondence (b) Card index to wills, mostly Yorkshire. (c) Notes on Brigg of Halifax, Brigg and Briggs of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex, Henry Brigg the mathm...

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Archive Collection

Aurora Lodge No 4047 minute books

1920-2013

The collection comprises 16 volumes of the minutes and 3 volumes of instructions of the Aurora Lodge No 4047. The minute books are: Volume 1: 24 March 1920- 10 October 1923 Volume 2: 14 November...

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Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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William Hanson and Company Limited, Business Archive

William Hanson and Company Limited

1924-1954

Comprises: 1) Credit ledgers, 1931-1951; 2) Debit ledgers, 1927-1950; 3) Invoice day-books for payments, 1929-1951; 4) Day-book for receipts, 1943-1951; 5) Wage books, 1924-1950; 6) Purcha...

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Herbert Read Archive

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c.1908-1977

Papers and correspondence of Sir Herbert Read (1893 - 1968). The collection is divided into 17 series and reflects Read's broad interests, connections and activities: 1. First World War service 2...

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF CLAREMONT, CLARENDON ROAD, LEEDS, AND HEATON FAMILY EPHEMERA

1870s-1890s

/1: Set of 16 photographs of Claremont & the Heaton family, mounted on card and contained in a folder marked ‘Claremont Leeds’ - all undated except for faint pencilled dates on some items, ranging...

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Archive Collection

Louis Tiercelin manuscripts

Tiercelin, Louis (1849-1915)

c.1890-1910

Contains: (1) Arthur de la Borderie, [1901]. Printed leaves from 'L'Hermine' (Vol.23, 24 March-July 1901) mounted on folio sheets, with manuscript additions and alterations by the author. [1], 109-126...

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Arthur Stanley Turberville notebooks and papers

Turberville, Arthur Stanley (1888-1945)

c.1907-1945

Comprises: (1)-(4) Draft of 'Medieval Heresy and the Inquisition' [published 1920]; (5)-(8) Notes on the Inquisition; (9)-(11) Draft of 'The Spanish Inquisition' [published 1932]; (12)-(16) Notes on B...

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Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Limited, Business Archive

Thomas Boyd Limited Leeds

1889-1932

Summary of Contents: I. Cash Books. 1889-1932. II. Ledgers. 1896-1923. III. Finishing Books. 1893—1913. IV. Employment and Wages Records. 1891-1917. I. CASHBOOKS. 1889-1932 These ...

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