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Total number of records: 3344

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Objects8
Art items5
Indexes1

Top 10: Collection group

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Brotherton Collection1418
English Literature405
Liddle Collection373
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society241
Quaker Collection203
Leeds Poetry155
Art and Antique Market103
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History97
Joseph Wood Collections72
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture63

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letters184
poets, english160
pre-raphaelites160
world war, 1914-191852
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)44
culture43
community life31
english language - dialects28
photographs27
genealogy23

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Canada1
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom1
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)142
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)70
Stoker, Bram41
Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)18
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-190514
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)13
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn13
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)10
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)8
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)7

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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM E

1914-1919

Pencil sketch of mosque (nd); 2 watercolour sketches (nd); German postcard (nd); Typescript verse 'The Motor-Lorry Man' by AL Jones (1918); Photograph of Princess Mary (nd); Overseas service stripes (...

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Williams

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1992-1994

This file contains correspondence relating to Hill's involvement in the case for Charles Williams being memorialised in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. Includes 2 typescript letters to Hill from Gil...

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WILLIAMS

1915

Recollections of Suvla Bay Landing, 9 Aug 1915.

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Williams

c. 1960 - 2015

Cuttings from various auction catalogues of furniture by makers trading under the name 'Williams'

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William Michael Rossetti to William Davis

06 Oct 1883

'Dear Mr Davis, I was extremeley obliged to you for those letters of my brother's'. WMR thanks him, but does not presently wish to publish Dante Gabriel Rossetti's letters.

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William Williams Prize in Combined Studies in Science

1985-1996

Correspondence with recipients; an index card recording details of the prize (value/school/set up and previous recipients)

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Evelyn A. Williams - The Art of Denis Williams

2012

A final draft of manuscript with accompanying printers quote. A proof copy with minimal annotations and edits

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James Guimond: The Art of William Carlos Williams

1968

Galley proofs of 'The art of William Carlos Williams, by James Guimond].

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AITCHESON, WILLIAM

1915-1918

4 photograph albums, including photographs of the Western Front (including Ypres) and Egypt, and aerial photographs, with captions (c 1915-c 1918); Bundle of 28 photographs copied from the albums; Neg...

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BRAY, WILLIAM

1916-1919

3 diaries (1916-1919).

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BARRACLOUGH, WILLIAM

1914-1918

Various papers; Maps of Asiago Plateau; Photographs; Cologne area; Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (Jan 1978).

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