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Total number of records: 830

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Archives828
Objects2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection567
English Literature517
Liddle Collection142
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections39
Medical Collections3
Cookery Collection2
Quaker Collection2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters830
english fiction254
english poetry247
english drama244
english literature244
poets, english241
pre-raphaelites241
world war, 1914-1918132
refugees, jewish73
refugees, political73

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Birmingham1
Colney Heath1
England1
Hertfordshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)142
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)23
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)3
Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)2
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, Julia2
Morpurgo, J E2
Mortimer, Russell Stanley2
Offor, Richard (1882-1964)2
Astbury, William Thomas (1898-1961)1

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From 17009
From 1800277
From 1900538
From 20004

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Up to 1899239
Up to 1999582
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BARLOW, ARTHUR NORMAN

1909-1919, 1924, 1939

Press cuttings relating to aeroplanes (19-20 Oct 1909); Mounted press cuttings relating to famous pilots (nd); Manuscript list of names (nd); National Registration Certificate (30 Oct 1916); RFC (Roya...

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ASCROFT, ROBERT GEOFFREY LEES

1911-1915

5 photocopied letters to 'My darling Wally' (6 Feb 1915, nd); 2 photocopied letters to Mrs Ascroft, from Thomas KB Levinson and an unknown correspondent, both regarding the death of RGL Ascroft (4 Sep...

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BLAND, CHARLES WILLIAM

1917-1919

Separation Allowance and Allotment of Pay form (9 Feb 1917); Letter to Mrs Bland from Captain Borthwick, relating to her missing husband (23 Apr 1918); 5 letters, four with envelopes, from CW Bland to...

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BAILEY, DORIS

1916-1917

c 150 letters, mainly from Doris Bailey, to Private, later Lance Sergeant, John (Jack) Thornton, 8th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, with typescript summary notes (2 Jan 1916-4 Sep 1917, nd); Photogra...

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BOSWELL, DENIS ST GEORGE KNOX

1906-1918

Large photograph album, with press cuttings and maps (1908-1918); Scrapbook of school reports and games results, college papers, telegrams, cards and press cuttings (1906-1922); Photocopied letters, m...

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BEAVON, ERIC ARMSON

1914-1919

Manuscript diaries and notebooks, with photocopies (1914-1919); Photocopied letters (11-28 Apr 1917); Photocopied obituary (nd); Photocopied court-martial statement (24 Apr 1917).

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BELLERS, ERIC V R

1917-1918

20 manuscript letters to his mother (24 Feb 1917-19 Sep 1918).

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BROWN, THOMAS

Brown, Thomas B

nd

Photocopied papers, including letters to parents, relating to his internment as a POW (Prisoner of War), 1918 (nd).

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BLELLOCH, DAVID HABERSHON HAMILTON

1914-1921

Letter from Sidney Ball, Senior Tutor at St. John's College, Oxford, testifying to sincerity of Blelloch's Conscientious Objection (3 Mar 1916); Letter from Maurice B Redcott, St. John's College, Oxfo...

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BIDLAKE, HERBERT COOPER KEITH

1917-1923

Manuscript letter to his mother (nd); Mentioned in despatches certificate, with typescript letter from the War Office (1 Mar 1919, 8 Oct 1917); Manuscript letter regarding a Christmas card to the King...

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BARRY, JESSICA HOWARD ('POPPY') (NÉE ROBINSON)

1914-1923

File A: Manuscript letter from Nellie M Barry to her cousin, Rose Grosvenor, of Rhode Island, USA (23 Aug 1914); 3 photographs of LG Barry, two with his ASC (Army Service Corps) unit (nd); 42 photogra...

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BROWN, NETTA

1919

Photocopied letter to her mother (11 Nov 1919).

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