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Brotherton Collection22
English Literature9
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Liddle Collection9
Rudolf Laban Collections7
Ripon Cathedral6
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Leeds General Cemetery3
Cookery Collection2
University Archive1

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clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)6
sermons5
theology5
correspondence4
world war, 1914-19183
culture2
english language - dialects2
letters2
photographs2
poets as teachers2

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Corfu (Greece)1
Ioannina (Greece)1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)5
Higgin, Anthony5
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn5
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)4
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bellasis, Grace1
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)1
Espinosa, Binyamin Ben YaʻAkov1
Espinoza, Binyamin1
Espinoza, Benjamin Ben Jacob1

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Bond

4 Jan 1673

Paull Greenewood of Erringden yeo., to Timothy Wadsworth of Woodhouse in Rastricke gent. - £21.</p><p>Witnesses: John Greenewood, Jo. Hargreaves, jnr.

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Various copies, letters, memoranda, pious reflections, etc. in the handwriting of the Chevalier d'Eon'

1777-1800

Many papers related to d'Eon's Catholic devotion. Other letters to and from the Marquise de Joyeuse, then known as the Duchess of Montmorency-Bouteville. Numbered 1600 - 1671(with some numbers missing...

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“The Intellectual Relations between France & England”

1849-1928

Bound MS draft of a lecture delivered under the auspices of The Anglo-French Society; 37pp (35 numbered); including an accompanying note to Lord Burnham; spine bound in dark blue leather with title an...

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Petitt’s Pocket Book Diary

1849-1928

Dark brown leather; list (5 pages) of 17th and 18th century books; includes cash account; income list at the back; no diary entries

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The “Tudor” Pocket Diary

1849-1928

Blue paper; frequent diary entries (includes journeys to France in April, June and August); income list at the back

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Memorandum of debt

1627-1628

In the sum of £39 17s 9d Ambrose Copthwaite [copperthwaite] to Robert Blackburne 23 Jan 1627/8

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Small scale maps of the Western Front

1914-1918

Draft article by D r .J.L.Cruickshank of the University of Leeds. Small scale maps of the Western Front. (Also in published form In the Charles Close Society: Sheetlines. No.39, April 1994.

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Symbols of English history, by J.C. Prior

Prior, J C

c.1818

The plates, numbered 1-39, illustrate events from English history from 54 B.C. to 1817 A.D., with accompanying descriptive notes

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Illustrations File 7

1960-1969

44-48: “Recording Books”. Multiple photocopies of pages from the Survey of English Dialects fieldwork response books for localities 6 Y 11 [Rillington], questions I.3 [The Cow-House]; and 21 Nf 4 ...

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A scrapbook of press-cuttings and other documents on economic affairs, mainly social credit, collected by Bonamy Dobrée

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

c.1933 - 1935

Contents include: (1) [Bonamy Dobrée], 'Draft of a "ten minute address"', n.d., typescript carbon (ff. 41-5); (2) Clifford Hugh Douglas, 'Breakdown of the employment system', London: New Age Press, n...

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Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book'
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Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book'

Lister, Dame Mary (1625-1635)

16--

Anonymous recipe book, known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book', containing culinary and medical recipes, household inventories and religious notes, in various hands. Includes: (1) inventories an...

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An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire
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An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire

c.1800

Also known as:Recipe book Sources of recipes include: Mrs Page of Streatham and Sheen (ff.6r, 7v, 12r, 15r, and 17v); Mrs Brooksbank of Yorkshire and 'Healaugh' [presumably Philippa Brooksbank (d.184...

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