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Total number of records: 3489

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Brotherton Collection1287
Art and Antique Market674
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Herbert Read Collection465
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive429
Leeds Animation Workshop400
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History178
Leeds Poetry172
Rudolf Laban Collections71
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Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)142
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)76
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)45
English National Opera North34
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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)27
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)22
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Hiroshige, Utagawa I (1797-1858)12
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Archive File

Arts &Recreation: Graphic Arts

1976 - 1988

Press cuttings from the Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the Telegraph, the Morning Star and the Daily Mail.

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Arts &Recreation: Performing Arts

1978 - 1988

Press cuttings from the Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the Morning Star and the Express.

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Leisure and the Arts: atrophied muscles and empty art

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1964

Galley proofs for Read's article 'Leisure and the Arts: atrophied muscles and empty art in 1984', 2ff. For the New Scientist (67), 14 May 1964.

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Black Arts Conference and Black Arts Week

1994-1996

Includes minutes of meetings, general correspondence, Report on Steps Forward Black Arts Conference, booklet from Manghanita Millar Personnel and Training Services, conference schedule, Black Expressi...

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Art in the Making

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1962 and 1965

This file contains two pamphlets produced by Granada Television Network Ltd as part of their Independent Television for Schools 'Art in the Making' series. Thomas Blackburn appears in the Autumn Term ...

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Arts - Unpublished

August-September 1919

Bristol Fighter F.2B by 2nd Lt.W.Stanley Rycroft, 48 Sqd.RAF. Aug/Sept 19

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The Art of Movement

1970-1979

Five page typed article in English, headed "The Art of Movement". Corrections in Laban's hand, so presumably by him. No date"

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Art File

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

File titled 'Art', contains typescripts and proofs, some with manuscript notes or corrections. File contains: A nest of gentle artists, typescript A note on Expressionism, typescript, 3ff, two ...

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Art and Alienation

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1966 - 1968

This file contains partial galley proofs enclosed in a dust jacket for Read's book Art and Alienation (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967).

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Art and Industry

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1952 - 1965

2 files of material chiefly relating to photographs for illustrative plates in new editions of Art and Industry. One file is dated c. 1952 and the other c.1965. Some print material relating to industr...

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Art and Society

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1931 - 1946

File labelled 'Art and Society' containing diverse papers. Includes newspaper articles and letters to the editor related to Frank Warburg's address 'Planning for Publishing', which he delivered to t...

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Art Now

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1960

This file contains material relating to the 1960 edition of Art Now published by Faber and Faber.

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