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MS 1975 Louis Compton Miall's box 1
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Louis Compton Miall Collection

Miall, L C (1842-1921)

23 Jan 1860-May 1930

The collection includes works by Louis Compton Miall on science, Latin, gardening and education. It also encompasses some letters with one written by Charles Darwin and another from T. H. Huxley. It...

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Women's Information, Referral and Enquiry Service

1970s - 1980s

A collection of source material used to produce the WIRES Newsletter and administrative material relating to the WIRES organisation. The first edition of the WIRES Newsletter was published in Septembe...

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Frances Bernstein

1969-1975

Papers discussed and written for Manchester Women's Liberation Group 1973-1975.

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Tony Harrison postcards addressed to Diana Rigg

1970s

Postcards addressed to Rigg from Harrison. Rigg had starred in several plays written by Harrison, including the Misanthrope and Phaedra Britannica. The collection also includes a copy of a programme f...

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Equal Opportunities Commission

c1976 - 1996

Press Cuttings Collection

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Community Development Project (Home Office) papers.

c.1945-1975

Comprises: (1) Planning papers, research reports, and administrative papers and correspondence of the Project between 1967 and 1975; (2) Many books on economic history and pamphlets on urban developme...

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William Ackroyd, Otley Mills, Business Archive

William Ackroyd Limited

1817-1963

Comprises various ledgers, notebooks, legal documents, cash and wages books, and books concerning stock balances. -------

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PEDIGREES AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES COMPILED BY MEMBERS OF THE YAS FAMILY HISTORY SECTION

20th century

Including pedigrees of Bentley, Dinsdale, Palmer. A list of Jackson entries in the Terrington N. Yorkshire parish registers (18-19th century), a list of early settlers in Whatcom County [Washington, U...

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Pam Bishop Collection

1973 -1980

Publications from Salford Women’s Aid Salford Aid to Battered Women Survey Report February 1976 Annual Reports from Salford Women’s Aid (originally Salford Aid to Battered Women) February 1977 Ma...

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E. J. Arnold wholesale stationers

1903-1977

Comprises wage books, invoices, miscellaneous company papers and reports, catalogues, examples of printing, correspondence, notes on company history, photographs (loose and in albums), slides, 2 reels...

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