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Brotherton Collection4
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Liddle Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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english literature2
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english poetry1
fishing1
jewish community1
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Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873-1934)1
Cazenove, Charles F1
Chevalier D'Eon1
Eon De Beaumont, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee D'1
Eon De Beaumont, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee D' (1728-1810)1
Eon De Beaumont, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee D', 1728-18101
Jacobs, A C1
Lejewski, Czeslaw (1913-2001)1
Lesniewski, Stanislaw (1886-1939)1
Maude, Aylmer (1858-1938)1

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Archive Print Collection

Slavonic

Works cover a variety of subjects connected with Russia. The printed works date from 1736 up until 1995, but the majority of the books date from the early 20th century. The earlier works mostly cover ...

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Archive Collection

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...

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Archive Print Collection

Travel (Brotherton Collection)

1600-1800

Works on European and Mediterranean travel in the period 1600 to 1800. Many of the works are descriptions of individual countries (including Russia, Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Italy and Spain), by E...

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Archive Print Collection

Finnish

Books, mainly in Finnish and English, covering many different aspects of Finnish language and culture. The works date from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. The collection includes 19th ...

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Archive Collection

Papers of Charles Chevalier d' Eon de Beaumont

Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d' (1728-1810)

c1690 - 1890s

Archive of Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont, known as Chevalier d'Eon. The collection includes substantial numbers of manuscripts, letters, copies of official docum...

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Archive Collection

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 ...

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Archive Collection

New Statesman, associated correspondence and literary papers 1914-1919 and 1960-1983

New Statesman

1914-1983

The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...

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Archive Collection

Czesław Lejewski Collection

Lejewski, Czesław (1913-2001)

1932-1995

The collection includes Lejewski's manuscript notes and formulae created during his research together with drafts and typescripts of his published works. It contains typescript drafts and reprints of...

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Archive Collection

Aylmer Maude correspondence and papers

Maude, Aylmer (1858-1938)

1901-1914

This handlist records over 200 letters and other documents mainly from Aylmer Maude (1858-1938), English translator, biographer and publicist of Tolstoy, to George Herbert Perris (1866-1920) and to Ch...

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Archive Collection

A. C. Jacobs Collection

Jacobs, A C; Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873-1934); Vogel, David (1891-1944)

1955-2000

The collection represents the works of Arthur C. Jacobs, a Scottish Jewish Poet. It includes 6 boxes of archival material (MS 2065/1) and 5 volumes of printed works (MS 2065/2). The archival material ...

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