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Total number of records: 89

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Brotherton Collection34
University Archive19
English Literature18
Feminist Archive North14
Leeds Poetry10
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7
Business Archives1
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Quaker Collection1

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english drama6
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english fiction3
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english literature3
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Top 10: People and organisations

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)1
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)1
Hey, William (1736-1819)1
Hey, William (1772-1844)1
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)1
Hiroshige, Utagawa I (1797-1858)1
Jones, Henry Arthur (1851-1929)1

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Archive Series

Plays

1959-1984

Contains the literary papers of Wole Soyinka relating to his plays, including published texts, annotated typescripts, annotated proof copies, original artwork and some correspondence.

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The Passion Play

1995

This file contains material related to Kevin Crossley-Holland's role as a liason at the University of St. Thomas Sacred Arts Festival, and for its production of 'The Passion Play' (1995). The file in...

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Literary Papers: Plays

1932-1971

Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Routine, or, The Daily State', 'The Near Singing Dome', 'The Bride of Mosta' and 'The Martyr'.

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Gramophone and Long Play Disc Recordings

1920s-1981

Series of dialect rcordings that include: 1)Earlier recordings of dialect speakers from the North-East of England, made by Harold Orton and others in the late 1930s as part of the Armstrong College ...

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Bretton Hall: Wakefield Mystery Plays, Martial Rose Papers

1958-1972

The first folder contains press clippings and extracts about the Wakefield mystery plays performed at Bretton Hall in 1958, a PMLA publication of 'The Dramatic Setting of the Wakefield Annunciation', ...

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Other Drama

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1955-1990

This series comprises papers relating to Jon Silkin's work on plays other than 'Gurney' and 'The Illiterates'. Includes ms and typescript drafts of short/radio plays, 'Small Armies', and 'Joseph'; and...

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Gurney

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1981-1989

This series contains papers relating to Jon Silkin's verse play, 'Gurney,' and includess extensive drafts and revisions; a small amount of correspondence relating to the play and its production; scrip...

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Infants

1959-1989

Plays for infant school age children

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