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Total number of records: 17

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Archives16
Books and printed items1

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Leeds Russian Archive4
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2
Brotherton Collection1
Leeds Animation Workshop1

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letters4
culture2
diaries2
english language - dialects2
genealogy2
hymns, english2
language and languages2
animation1
british1
charities1

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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Pearson Family2
Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)1
Maurice Warwick Beresford1

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Archive Sub-collection

A Word Geography of England

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1970-1977

This subfonds includes items relating to the production of 'A Word Geography of England' (WGE), the first linguistic atlas based on the Survey of English Dialects to be published. It consists of edito...

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Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-mid 1970s]

This subfonds contains a collection of maps that cannot be specifically linked with either the Survey of English Dialects (SED) publication programme, or with the activities of the Institute of Dialec...

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Music manuscripts

1853-1879

Music scores in Freemantle's hand.

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Correspondence

1874-1921

Letters to and from Freemantle.

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Yorkshire Schools' Exploring Society Archive

2007-2011

This accrual comprises expedition reports from China/ Tibet, Alaska and Knoydart.

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Yorkshire Schools' Exploring Society, papers

2004-2010

This sub-collection is a separate accrual to the collection. It includes annual reports, expedition reports and photographs on CDs.

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Photographic materials

19th cent

Includes photographs of the Partington family including the actress Sallie (Sally) Partington (1834-1907). Her sister Martha was William Freemantle's mother.

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ROBINSON, Frederick (1858/9-?)

[1911], 1982

Modern photographs /1/, slides /2/ and negatives /3/ taken from set of lantern slides recording Frederick Robinson's journey through Russia and on the Trans-Siberian Railway, 1911. Index of places and...

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GERMAN SECOND WORLD WAR MILITARY MAPS

1941-1943

German military maps of European Russia, [1939]-1943 /1qq-9qq/; "Baustoffkarte des europäischen Russland", 1943 /10qq-42qq/.

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Maurice Warwick Beresford correspondence and papers

Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)

c.1886-1992

Comprises: (1) Diaries; (2) Various family papers and photographs; (3) Letters and papers relating to publications, especially a Gazetteer of Medieval English boroughs, and similar material on Europea...

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Additional letters and papers of the Pearson family of Yorkshire and Mountcross. Co. Cork

Pearson Family

1883-1993

These additional letters and papers were most kindly deposited in the Brotherton Library by Mrs S Laville of West Malvern in January 1993, in continuation of her previous deposit made in 1989 (MS Dep....

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