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Total number of records: 360

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Archives353
Books and printed items7

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Brotherton Collection83
English Literature77
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society61
Business Archives48
Leeds Poetry21
Feminist Archive North18
Medical Collections11
Art and Antique Market6
University Archive5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4

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letters47
business records45
textile industry43
english poetry32
english literature18
commercial correspondence14
english fiction12
diaries8
english drama8
family archives6

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Calton; Kirkby Malham; Yorkshire West Riding2
Bristol1
Chevet; Royston; Yorkshire West Riding1
Cumbria1
Derbyshire1
France1
Gisburn; Yorkshire West Riding1
Gloucestershire1
Lincolnshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dorothy Una Clough3
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips3
Dorothy Una Phillips3
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)3
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Berry, Francis2
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)2
Edwards, Donald2
Glover, Jon2
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)2

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Archive Collection

Will Foster Archive

Foster, Will (1864-1955)

c.1888-1942

Comprises: (1) 20 play typescripts; (2) Poems in typescript; (3) 'The Jolly Friar', a light opera; (4) Correspondence, 96 letters in 5 envelopes together with 68 reviews and other items in 3 envelopes...

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Dance Archive

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Michael Sadler Archive

Sadler, Sir Michael (1861-1943)

1848-c.1997

The archive consists of the following: - original MS and TS papers by Sadler (1887-1943), - correspondence (1870-1941) - books or documents held by Sadler (1854-1943) - published works by Sadler ...

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Geoffrey Woledge Archive

Woledge, Geoffrey (1901-1988)

19--

Includes diaries, letters, postcards, photographs, household accounts, notes on bibliography, librarianship and education, papers of various family members, documents relating to Aireborough Civic Soc...

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Henry Céard Archive

Céard, Henry

c.1873-1921

Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Céard towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various ed...

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Wang Fanxi Archive

1925-1990s

Correspondence, manuscripts and press cuttings covering the work and life of Wang Fanxi, and many of his comrades. Includes Wang Fanxi's memoirs and other writings including one on Mao Zedong's thou...

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Ralph Miliband Archive

Miliband, Ralph

1940-2002

The archive consists of the following: Original MS and TS papers by Miliband (1940-1994), correspondence (1942-1994), documents held by Miliband (1940-1994), published articles by Miliband (1953-1994)...

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Kathleen Raven Archive

Raven, Dame Kathleen Annie (1910-1999)

1874-1999

The collection contains papers, photographs, publications, tape recordings and artworks produced or collected by Kathleen Raven in the course of her life and work. These records begin from her earl...

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Michael Bateman Archive

Bateman, Michael (1932-2006); Grigson, Sophie; Harben, Philip

1900-2006

Collection covering Michael Bateman's work as a journalist and writer. Journalistic work from the late 1950s up to 2003 is covered in a series of scrapbooks with press cuttings pasted in, and substant...

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Arnold Family Archive

Arnold Family

1810-1894

Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...

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Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Elizabeth North Archive

1980-2002

Includes typescript drafts of Elizabeth North's novels, short stories, plays, articles, and poems, manuscript notes, manuscript journals, correspondence, teaching materials and reviews of North's work...

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