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Total number of records: 713

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Indexes414
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Archives79
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Art items2
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Quaker Collection410
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English Literature29
Letters Database16
Herbert Read Collection14
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University Archive8
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History7
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)19
Dupuis (1742-1809)13
Pauquet, Jean Louis Charles13
Pauquet, Jean Louis Charles (1759-1820)13
Triere, Phillipe13
Triere, Phillipe (1756-1815)13
Chamberlayne, Edward6
Chamberlayne, Edward (1616-1703)6
Miege, Guy (1644-1718?)6
Alembert, Jean Le Rond D' (1717-1783)5

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From 20007

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Print

A Humument p.327

Phillips, Tom (1937-2022)

1973

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Union News, issue 327
Archive Item

Coin

Denomination: quinarius

Date(s): 90 BCE

Issuer/creator: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Senior

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Textile

Class H Woollen and Worsted Fabrics Autumn 1905

University of Leeds (1904-)

1905

A hardback with black covers and spine. Red label and gold text on spine. Book no.5. Contains woven fabric samples with polychrome flecked or striped patterning. The ground colours are dark grey, ...

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Textile

Lainages Hiver 1950 pour Échantillonnage Hiver 1951 I

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1950-1951

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including gabardene, veloute, tweed and crepe. Woven patterning in 2-3 colours includes stripes, pleating ef...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

Before 1965

Painted abstract design in pinks and reds

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Archive Item

Plays and pictures.

28-Aug-1926

Nation & Athenaeum, 28th August 1926, p 612. Review of FM Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (Barnes Theatre) and W J Locke, The Light on the mountain (Regent Theatre).

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Name: Gisbrough MM

Reference: Carlton Hill A1

Meeting: Knaresborough MM 1721-53

Pages: 8, 11, 40, 58, 72, 74-5


Archive Print Item

Parliamentary map of Yorkshire : reduced from the Ordnance Survey

Bartholomew, John (1831-1893); Collins, William publisher

[1870]

Date from: Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 119. Cover title: Collins parliamentary map of Yorkshire.

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Archive Print Item

Exeter Women's Centre Newsletter

1985: (1) Feb; (2) Apr-May; (3) Jun-Jul

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