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Total number of records: 525

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives483
Books and printed items38
Coins4

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive201
Brotherton Collection102
English Literature58
Leeds Poetry39
Feminist Archive North36
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society35
University Archive31
Art and Antique Market23
Medical Collections23
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture16

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
british44
photographs40
letters38
russians28
russian literature21
postcards15
culture10
world war, 1914-191810
english language - dialects9
community life7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)10
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)3
Harvey, John Wilfred (1889-1967)3
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)3
Kirkup, James (1918-2009)3
Pearson Family3
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)3
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn3

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Earliest dateCount
From earliest2
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From 12004
From 14001
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From 170022
From 1800106
From 1900289
From 200012

Count of Latest date

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Up to 14991
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Up to 179910
Up to 189917
Up to 1999314
Up to latest114

Archive Print Sub-collection

Archive Print Sub-collection

Archive Sub-collection

Laban Collection

Hodgson, John (1927-1997); Laban, Rudolf von (1879-1958)

1891-2001

The Laban Collection includes papers and artworks by Laban and interviews with Laban's pupils and colleagues. The archives also include notes made by John Hodgson and publications relating to Laban a...

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Poetry Collections

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1953-2007

This subfonds comprises items relating to published collections of Geoffrey Hill's poetry, covering the period from prior to the publication of his first major collection, 'For the Unfallen' (1959) to...

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Archive Sub-collection

TONG Collection

[1880s-1890s?], [1980s], 2019

Cabinet portraits of Thomas Tong (1845-1921) and Alice Tong (nee Laycock) (1870-1915), Moscow, [1880s?] /1-2/. Photograph of Russian embroidery case, which belonged to Alice Tong /3/. Cabinet portrai...

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Archive Print Sub-collection

Brock Collection

1850-1950

Books illustrated by C. E. and H. M. Brock and others.

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Archive Sub-collection

Poetry collections

2001-2010

This sub-collection comprises items relating to published collections of Antony Rowland's poetry. It includes a proof copies of Rowland's publications 'I am a Magenta Stick', 'Birkenau' and 'The Land...

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PLATTS Collection

1900, 1931, 1960s-1980s

Photographs and negatives of coronation mug, 1896, /1-3/, Modern prints and negatives of photographs of Russian Imperial study? by Rentz & Schreider, 1900 /4-8/, Modern prints and negatives of photogr...

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FELSENSTEIN Collection

1883-1971

Town plan of Moscow, 1859/1862/1883 /1/. "Katalog knizhnogo i geograficheskogo magazina izdanii glavnogo shtaba" (St Petersburg, 1890) /2/. E M Felsenstein's Reports on Leningrad and Scandinavian Fur ...

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BERNAYS Collection

1986

Slides of: postcard reproductions of works by N Konstantinov, ?L'vova, M Boskin, F Sychkov, S Vinogradov, T Mozgov, Russian Types, and views of Moscow (including British chapel, St Andrew's Church and...

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BAGENAL Collection

[1850s]-1988, 1996

Photographs and postcards (including some modern prints, slides and negatives) of: members of the Muir, Mirrielees and Philip families in Russia /1-18/; Degunino Chemical Works (near Moscow) /19-52/; ...

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LUHRS Collection

[1910s], 1986, 1991

Luhrs family-history notes /1/. Modern print of photograph of Luhrs family house, Archangel /2/. Photocopy of letter from Lev Leibson, St Petersburg, to Eugenie Fraser, Edinburgh (1991) /3/.

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