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Total number of records: 45

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Brotherton Collection20
English Literature20
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5
Feminist Archive North4
Leeds Poetry2
Business Archives1
Cookery Collection1
Leeds General Cemetery1
Medical Collections1

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letters11
english poetry8
english drama5
english literature5
english fiction3
alanbrooke, alan brooke, viscount, 1883-19631
business records1
cemeteries1
communism1
cremation1

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Hampshire1
Kirkby South; Yorkshire West Riding1
Markingfield; Yorkshire West Riding1
Sprotbrough; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)5
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor5
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)5
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)5
Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872)2
Allen, Grant1
Ann Blois1
Anne Blois1
Askew, Anthony (1722-1774)1
Baines, Edward (1774-1848)1

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Archive Collection

Red Ladder Theatre Collection

Red Ladder Theatre Company

1971-2017

The archive comprises material relating to the Red Ladder Theatre Company, from the early 1970s to the current date. It includes administrative files and company documents, programmes, posters, press ...

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[Latin Bible]
Archive Collection

[Latin Bible]

Eden, Sir Robert Johnson (1774-1844); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor; Sams, Joseph

13th century

Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...

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Survey of the estates of the Currer family of Kildwick

1771

Survey of the estates of the Currer family of Kildwick by Thomas Addison and George Lang, 1771; paper volume bound in red morocco, with parchment title pages and coloured maps.

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James Elroy Flecker, The blue noon

Flecker, James Elroy (1884-1915)

c. 1910

The poem was written at the 'Hotel Stephane, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland'

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Paul Muldoon, autograph manuscript notebook containing drafts of poems later published in 'Mules'

Muldoon, Paul

c.1976

Comprises the autograph manuscript working notebook used for drafts of miscellaneous poems composed by Paul Muldoon and subsequently published in 'Mules' in 1977. It was apparently compiled in Corfu a...

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Pierce Egan, The blind lover; or, The maid of Malines

Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)

c. 1850

A historical drama in prose

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J. T. Clay and Sons Limited, Business Archive

J.T. Clay and Sons Limited

1812-1928

Stock account book and scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, letters and notices. The stock book is lettered on spine: 'Clay & Earnshaw Stock 1812 and 1814, and on the front cover: 'Clay & Earnshaw Crow...

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DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SOUTH KIRKBY, SPROTBOROUGH AND ELSEWHERE

1713-1842

Including an inventory of goods and fixtures at Sprotborough House and Red Lion Square 1713, probate copy of will of William Brown of Wakefield 1791, and indenture between Dame Gertrude Copley of Spro...

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Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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George Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

c.1875-1919

The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuar...

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