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Total number of records: 383

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Objects3

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Brotherton Collection152
Liddle Collection84
English Literature54
Leeds Poetry33
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture16
Letters Database14
Herbert Read Collection12
Quaker Collection8
Medical Collections7
Art and Antique Market5

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world war, 1914-191823
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)15
Stoker, Bram7
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-19056
Crossley-Holland, Kevin4
Baron Brotherton3
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton3
Leigh, Blanche Legat3
Lord Brotherton3
Read, Lady Margaret Ludwig (1905-1996)3

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*ASHTON, Lady.

1970-1999

(Tape 342); Domestic Front; Schoolgirlhood in East Anglia (Southwold).

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*HARKNESS, Lady

1970-1999

(Tape 693). Nursing - 1913 at 1st Western General Hospital; Overseas posting to the Territorial Nursing Service but on way to Egypt was torpedoed outside Alexandria harbour in HMT Aragon.

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TROWER, LADY

1914-1918

Photographs; Photocopied papers; Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (June 1979).

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CHAMPION, Lady

1914-1918

(1893-) (Transcripts of Tapes 405/411) Life in London working for the Quakers until 1916 when she transferred to Military Intelligence (MI 5) as a typist/clerk.

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COLGRAIN, Lady

1914-1918

Madge, Lady Colgrain. Manuscript detailing family history, life in Egypt, Mediterranean voyages and support work in a hospital in Kent as a VAD

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HAWORTH, Lady

1914-1918

(1901-) (Typescript) Brief details of childhood experiences (2 copies)

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Lady Moynihan Award

1990-1998

Correspondence with recipients; financial papers

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COURTNEY, LADY KATE

1914-1919

Private publication 'Extracts from a Diary during the War' by Kate Courtney, with additional synopsis and biographical notes by BET Herbert (Dec 1927).

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LINDSAY, LADY KATHLEEN

1878-1921, 1929, 1949-1953

63 manuscript letters and postcards to and from Lady Kathleen Lindsay and her family (28 June 1878-26 Sep 1921, 5-17 Feb 1949, nd); Press cuttings (28 Dec 1914, 11 Nov 1918, nd); Papers and correspond...

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NAPIER, LADY MABEL

1914-1920

Manuscript letter to her sons, Joseph and Charles, who were at Neuchatel, Switzerland, at the outbreak of the First World War (23 Aug 1914); 5 manuscript letters to JWL Napier (son) (8 Aug-31 Oct 1918...

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Memoirs of an Ancient Lady

1914-1918

"Memoirs of an Ancient Lady"” by Jessica Godwin, also her

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PENDRED, LADY NINA

1900-c 1919

Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (July 1977).

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