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Total number of records: 730

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Archives707
Coins11
Books and printed items10
Art items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection202
English Literature143
Leeds Poetry108
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive106
Feminist Archive North84
University Archive67
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society49
Liddle Collection33
Art and Antique Market32
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections27

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learned institutions and societies49
diaries13
correspondence11
letters10
culture9
english poetry9
authors and publishers7
community life7
education6
anarchism5

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England1
Scotland1
United States1
Wales1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)86
Hey, William (1736-1819)52
Hey, William (1772-1844)49
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society49
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)40
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)19
Crossley-Holland, Kevin18
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)15
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn15
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)6

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Up to latest140

Archive Series

Poetry Collections

1960-2001

(ca. 1960-2001); 5 boxes. This series comprises papers relating to published collections of Rodney Pybus’s poetry, including In Memoriam Milena (1973), Bridging Loans (1976), At the Stone Junction (...

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Print collection

1976-1996

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Pam Bishop Collection

1973 -1980

Publications from Salford Women’s Aid Salford Aid to Battered Women Survey Report February 1976 Annual Reports from Salford Women’s Aid (originally Salford Aid to Battered Women) February 1977 Ma...

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Char March Collection

1993-2006

Sister Nose Copyright '94: a womans point of view!! Summer/Fall 1995 (U.S.A feminist writing zine) WWN (Newsletter of the Women Writers Network ) Dec/Jan 1996/97 Vol 12 issue 4 The Women's Cultural ...

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Hillary West Collection

20th century

Hillary West Collection – contents Miscellaneous leaflets and pamphlets - When did the Conservative government last listen to you? (Labour's Women's Ministry leaflet) spare tyre (information leaf...

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Collected Poems (1985)

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1984-1985

This series comprises items relating to the publication of Geoffrey Hill's 'Collected Poems', published by Penguin in 1985. The collection brought together poems published in the collections 'For the ...

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New and Collected Poems

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1992-1994

This series comprises single file relating to Geoffrey Hill's 'New and Collected Poems 1952-1992', published by Houghton Mifflin in 1994. The file contains photocopied pages with the poems 'In Memory ...

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Miscellaneous collected papers

[1766]

'The account of all ye papers': list of miscellaneous papers, with some of them: Rules for government of the Gray Coat Charity School in Oxford 'A sketch of Darby's election': satirical list of book...

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Rachel Peto collection

Women's Liberation Movement pamphlets, papers, key texts

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John Mackendrick Collection

1970-1994

Comprises: (1) 3 boxes of autograph typescript and manuscript drafts of Mackendrick's plays, including (Box 1) many drafts of 'Rules' (at least 7 with some incomplete and one version called 'Religion'...

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Press Cutting Collection

1975-1986

Early on in their formation Women's Aid realised the importance of collecting and preserving newspaper articles. The cuttings that have been collated over the decades document the history of the organ...

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William Abercrombie Collection

c.1880s - 1900s

Collection includes two scrapbooks titled ‘Biographia Literaria’ containing press cuttings, photographic prints and some letters. Includes letters written by RD Blackmore, Mortimer Collins, Theodo...

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