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Total number of records: 6466

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Liddle Collection3532
Brotherton Collection1356
English Literature1217
Leeds Poetry992
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture416
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections78
University Archive69
Art and Antique Market59
Herbert Read Collection51
Cookery Collection50

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world war, 1914-1918566
culture388
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photographs251
letters146
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manners and customs138
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correspondence111
play105

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)297
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)146
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)47
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn47
Crossley-Holland, Kevin29
Higgin, Anthony17
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)15
Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)13
Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)11
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)10

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Collected Papers

Brunk, Wille

1965-1967

This file contains papers received and collected by Wille Brunk during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This includes a copy of Åsa Werner-Ljungstr...

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Draft Collection

2001

Typescript draft of The Universal Home Doctor accompanied by a cc ts letter from Simon Armitage to “Paul” at Faber and Faber (2 July 2001). The draft includes an ms list of contents/poems for incl...

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Collection of Information

October 1915

Collection of Information regarding the Enemy, October 1915. Donor: E. Bowlby (GS).

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Collection Research

1914-1918

13 miscellaneous documents (notes on the collection)

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Collected Poems

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1965-1966

1 book-length typescript copy with 'Collected Poems 1965 by Herbert Read' written on the front. Contains directions to the printer and manuscript corrections.

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The Guggenheim Collection

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

1 typescript carbon copy titled 'The Guggenheim Collection', 2ff. Regards the collection of twentieth century painting and sculpture acquired by Peggy Guggenheim, and is addressed to visitors of the C...

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