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Total number of records: 651

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture237
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive150
Brotherton Collection27
English Literature22
Leeds Poetry22
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11
Liddle Collection7
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
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education351
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)32
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)15
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)13
Wright, Peter11
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies9
Barry, Michael V (1935-)8
Green, Anthony E (1943-)6
Wright, John T6
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Lecture syllabus "The History and the Achievements of the Working Classes in Union and Co-operation"

1885

Syllabus of lecture to the Barnsley Co-Operative Society (Ltd) Hoyland Branch at the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom at Hoyland on Monday March 9th 1885 2 pp printed on poor quality pink paper with tea...

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2002, London

Jan 2002

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to contribute to a seminar series at Brunel University for the Department of Education with the theme of "Critical Professional Education" in early 2002.

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Dec, 2001, Naples

Apr 2001 - Dec 2001

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "défis à l'éducation au temps de la modernité liquide (challenges to education in the time of liquid modernity)" on 6 Februa...

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Sep, 2001, Copenhagen

Feb 2001 - Sep 2001

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "Educational Challenges of Liquid Modernity" as part of a conference at the Danish University of Education on 3 September 2001. ...

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Article "Need we imitate German education?"

1916

Extracted from the journal 'The Times on War and Education' (Friday, January 14, 1916), p. 3 Item 319 in Pickering 1p

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Article "The government and education"

1916

Extracted from the journal 'Today' (16 December 1916), pp. 155-56 also includes a later typewritten version Item 316 in Pickering 2pp

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Unbound printed pamphlet "Technical education and scientific research with special reference to the needs of the leather industries."

No date, ca. 1917

"An Address delivered [...] to the Members of the United Tanners' Federation at the Leathersellers' Hall, July 17th, 1917" [No imprint] Item 332 in Pickering 12 pp.

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Article "Education in England: The churches and the schools"

1920

Extracted from the journal 'Indian Education: a monthly record' (June, 1920), pp. 485-90 Item 105 in Pickering 6 pp.

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Article "The intellectual ferment in India".

1920

"The substance of an address given at the Church House, Westminster, June 8, 1920, during the Missionary week arranged by the Central Board of Missions". Within 'The East and the West', n. 72, vol. 18...

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Article "The new young"

1921

Extracted from the journal 'St. Martin-in-the-Fields Review', n. 366 (August, 1921), pp. 371-372 Item 360 in Pickering; reprinted in Higginson, pp. 13738; see also letters database for correspondence ...

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"The Old Mill, Arncliffe (a water colour drawing)"

1922

Reproduction of watercolour painting by Sadler within 'The Microcosm' Vol. VII No 1 (Spring 1922), p.15 1p

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Article "Education in England: Courage"

1922

Within a complete copy of the journal 'Indian Education: a monthly record', vol. 20, n. 12 (July 1922), pp. 534-39, Item 105 in Pickering 6 pp.

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