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Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)6
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Chaplin, Stephen2
Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872)2
Ross, Alan (1922-2001)2
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Askew, Anthony (1722-1774)1
Astbury, William Thomas (1898-1961)1

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Archive Collection

COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS OF YORKSHIRE PLACES AND PLACES IN OTHER COUNTIES COLLECTED BY YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

late 19th-20th century

Arranged alphabetically. Subjects include general views and street scenes, churches, country houses, cottages and houses (some now demolished), abbeys, monuments, stone carvings, packhorse bridges. So...

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RYE INTERNAL DRAINAGE BOARD RATEBOOKS

1946-1960

Incomplete series: 1946-1947, 1960-1961

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Archive Print Collection

Angela Thirkell (Brotherton Collection)

Works of Angela Thirkell (1890-1961). For the most part, her novels are gently satirical chronicles of the doings of the nobility and gentry of Trollope’s Barsetshire. Thirkell still has a devoted f...

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City of Leeds Training College, Leeds College of Art and Leeds College of Music, papers on higher education, held by Leeds City Council Education Committee

c.1903-1961

Comprises: (1) Leeds College of Art papers, ca. 1910-1961, including administrative correspondence, the Principal's annual reports, miscellaneous annual and other reports, notably one of an inspection...

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Stephen Chaplin Collection

Chaplin, Stephen

1700-2000

Stephen Chaplin (born 1934) studied at the Slade Art School and the Courtauld Institute, then taught at the Leeds College of Art from 1961 to 1966, and at the University of Leeds from 1966 to 1991, In...

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Papers of Dame Fanny Waterman

1904-2016

The material comprises the personal archive of Dame Fanny Waterman, covering her career as a piano teacher, speaker, author and organiser of musical events. The archive also reflects personal milesto...

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PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PAPERS OF KENT FAMILY OF TATEFIELD HALL

18th century-20th century

Including: farm account books of Isaac Denison of Dunkeswick and others 1809-1893 and diary of a farmer recording the weather, events on the farm, payments 1855-1893 (back of diary records accounts re...

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Ernest Gordon Cox Archive

Cox, Ernest Gordon

1886-1999

Comprises: Section A, Biographical, including shorter autobiographical and biographical accounts, significant material relating to his career, honours, and birthday celebrations, and photographs taken...

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Roy Fuller Archive

Fuller, Roy (1912-1991)

1941-1990

Comprises: (a) 2 boxes (Boxes 1-2) containing Roy Fuller's autograph manuscript notebooks, comprising 25 numbered notebooks of poetry dated 1941-1983, 2 unnumbered notebooks of his reviews of works by...

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Gerda Mayer Archive

Mayer, Gerda

c.1939 - 2008

The collection relates to the life and works of poet Gerda Mayer. It contains; Literary correspondence, personal correspondence, and published/ unpublished writings, with there being some amount of cr...

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Angela Thirkell Archive

Thirkell, Angela Margaret

1895-2004

Comprises: (1) 12 boxes of material catalogued by David Gilson, namely, autograph manuscript notebooks containing drafts of the novels 'Love among the Ruins', 'The Old Bank House', 'Morning, afternoo...

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