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Channel Islands Collection
Personal collection of works relating to the Channel Islands of John Le Patourel, Professor of Medieval History at Leeds University from 1945 to 1970. It includes works on many aspects of the history ...
Seamus Heaney, typescript of an interview by John Haffenden, and an annotated copy of 'Station Island'.
Heaney, Seamus (1939-2013)
1979-1990
Comprises: (1) An incomplete typescript of Heaney's interview with John Haffenden in January 1979 concerning Heaney's life and poetry with the latter's autograph manuscript revisions; (2) A copy of...
John Le Patourel Archive
Le Patourel, John (1909-1981)
c.1910-1986
This substantial archive, containing over 13,000 separate items, is made up of the following broad categories: (1) Personalia, principally comprising extensive correspondence; (2) Material relating to...
Arthur Ransome Archive
Ransome, Arthur (1884-1967)
1847-2000
Comprises: 1) literary manuscripts and typescripts, including Ransome's original illustrations for his children's books, fishing essays, sailing notes, drafts for his autobiography, diaries, notebooks...
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Archive
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962)
1902-1971
Comprises: (a) 5 boxes of autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Wilfrid Gibson's poems and plays, and some groups of correspondence between Gibson and various literary figures and publishers, ...
Liddle Collection (First and Second World Wars)
1914-1945
Peter Liddle began collecting First World War personal experience material from veterans and their descendants in the 1960s, when he was a schoolteacher in Liverpool making pioneering use of original ...
Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond-Wolff correspondence and papers
Drummond-Wolff, Henry (1899-1982)
1928-1983
Henry Drummond-Wolff was the son of Cecil Drummond-Wolff and grandson of Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff, the Tory politician who, in the 1880s, had formed the 'fourth party' with Lord Randolph Churchill, Ar...
Icelandic
At the heart of this excellent working library for students of both Modern and Old Icelandic is Bogi Melsted's extensive collection. Melsted (1860-1929), a distinguished Icelandic historian and auth...
George Nicholls, letters received
Nicholls, Sir George (1781-1865)
c.1815-1821
Comprises many manuscript letters written between 1815 and 1821 to Captain George Nicholls on St Helena while he was guarding Napoléon Bonaparte, with one dated much later in 1880.
Maltese Dialect Survey papers
1963-2005
Contains the results of fieldwork, primarily in the form of writing pads with hand-written notes or transcribed data from audio tapes recorded during the project, and other materials, mainly concernin...
Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive
1862-1866
Papers relating to the fund raised in Leeds for relief of distress in the Lancashire cotton districts caused by the American civil war In the autumn of 1862, the American Civil War began to affect t...
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...