Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 34 records

Total number of records: 34

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection22
English Literature21
Leeds Poetry3
Feminist Archive North2
University Archive2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters4
english fiction3
english literature3
english drama2
english poetry2
african theatre1
autobiography1
diaries1
fiction1
nigerian drama (english)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)3
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Bogarde, Dirk (1921-1999)1
Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven Van Den Bogaerde1
Dorothy Una Clough1
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips1
Dorothy Una Phillips1
Giffen, Liza1
Halliday, Wilfrid Joseph1
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18003
From 190024
From 20006

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18991
Up to 199915
Up to latest17

Archive Series

Novels

1972

Series of literary papers of Wole Soyinka relating to his novels as published by Rex Collings. Files are arranged by published title and include annotated typescripts, annotated proof copies and some ...

More details


Archive Series

Novels

1966-2001

More details


Archive Series

Manuscript novel 'Matilda' or 'Credulity'

[19th century]

Note on spine, probably in the hand of Bradfer-Lawrence: 'Yorkshire MSS from Milner Collection'

More details


Archive Series

'I Tell of Greenland' novel

1976-1977

'I Tell of Greenland', including 30 autograph manuscript notebooks containing the original text. Autograph typescript draft used by the publishers (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977). Berry's revis...

More details


Archive Series

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe draft poems and unfinished novel

Halliday, Wilfrid Joseph; Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

1924-1970

More details


Archive Series

Debendranath

1961

Includes material related to Kevin Crossley-Holland's unrealised novel 'Debendranath' that includes: a typescript dated from 1961; two notebooks with manuscript text, with the titles 'Notes for a Nov...

More details


Archive Series

Notebooks

c. 1965 – c. 2012

Series containing 51 notebooks, used by Robinson throughout his writing career. Notebooks include journal entries, dream diaries, drafts of novels, poems, songs, and short stories. Many of the noteboo...

More details


Archive Series

Early and Unpublished Work

1969 - c. 1995

Drafts for unpublished novels and short stories. Files may contain related correspondence.

More details


Archive Series

Drafts

c1981 - 1984

Typescript drafts of novels and essays, presumably sent to Chester, prior to publication, for proof reading.

More details


Archive Series

Fiction

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1967-1971

This series contains items concerned with Blackburn's output of fiction writing. It includes both published and unpublished novels, and fragmentary drafts.

More details


Archive Series

Multimedia

c.1989 - 2010

Series containing multimedia material in various formats, including VHS, CDs and floppy disks. Contains promotional material including interviews with Peter Robinson, and drafts of his novels on flop...

More details


Archive Series

Notebooks

c. 2006

5 notebooks. Contents vary, and may contain draft poetry; draft ideas and material for novels including 'The Point of Rescue' and 'The Other Half Lives'; holiday reading lists, and to-do lists.

More details