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Total number of records: 775

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Objects63

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Brotherton Collection312
Liddle Collection147
English Literature96
Leeds Poetry68
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture60
Quaker Collection31
Herbert Read Collection28
Joseph Wood Collections27
Leeds Animation Workshop17
University Archive17

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community life38
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english language - dialects25
communication23
folklore22
literature and folklore20
persons19
occupations17
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Italy4
Nablus (West Bank)3
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Yemen2
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1
Berlin1
Cento (Italy)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)22
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)19
Crossley-Holland, Kevin15
Green, Anthony E (1943-)12
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)11
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)4
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)4
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)3
Greene, Graham (1904-1991)3
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn3

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Green

c. 1960 - 2015

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

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GREEN, S

1914-1918

(1898-) (Typescript) Driver/Gunner, Royal Field Artillery; Detailed memoirs of his Service from enlistment in Bradford in 1915 to 1919, which includes Egypt, Salonika and Palestine; (41 pages).

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GREEN, WH

1970-1999

(1897-) (Tape 551/ Transcript). 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment; Describes in detail trench life on the Somme and the Y...

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GREEN, ADA

1914-1922, 1939-1954

Wallet containing certificate of employment and anti-gas instructions (nd); Postcard from F Green (son), a POW (Prisoner of War) at Dülmen in in Germany (6 Jan 1918); Soldier's Service and Pay Book (...

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GREEN, A E

1911-1919

Manuscript letters, with some typed summary notes (1911-1919); Miscellaneous papers.

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Green, John

Mid-Late 20th Century

Letters; Various papers relating to his severe wounding in Italy and recuperation in British hospitals; Typescript entitled 'Life Story'.

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The Green Child

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1934

Manuscript of Herbert Read's only novel, The Green Child. The title page shows that one early title for The Green Child was Inland Far.

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The Green Table

1969-1980

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Pastures Green

1969-1980

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Balcomb Greene

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographic reproductions of the work of Balcomb Greene

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Margaret Green

14 Jun 1964

1 letter to Herbert Read from Margaret Green, re. a book of German children's paintings, which Green promises to send to Read once he has time to look at them.

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Graham Greene

Greene, Graham (1904-1991)

1918 - 1968

This file contains 11 letters to Herbert Read from Graham Greene, and 2 from his secretary Josephine Reid. The letters chiefly regard travel advice and arrangments. In the letters from 1966 Greene ...

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