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Total number of records: 33571

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Indexes16523
Archives11358
Books and printed items4685
Objects949
Art items56

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19182837
world war, 1939-1945363
photographs335
military art and science170
letters155
naval art and science113
conscientious objectors111
postcards79
diaries66
soldiers66

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain225
Germany36
France33
Soviet Union30
Europe28
United States24
Belgium19
Australia12
Turkey11
Al Kut (Iraq)10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain. Army228
Liddle, Peter H (1934-)143
Great Britain135
Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission114
Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain)106
Great Britain. Royal Navy81
Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1871-1949)67
Liddle, Peter61
Bairnsfather, Bruce (1887-1959)56
Great Britain. Royal Air Force51

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Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17005
From 1800207
From 190032647
From 2000116

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 189915
Up to 199932582
Up to latest378

Archive Collection

Liddle Collection (First and Second World Wars)

1914-1945

Peter Liddle began collecting First World War personal experience material from veterans and their descendants in the 1960s, when he was a schoolteacher in Liverpool making pioneering use of original ...

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Archive Print Collection

Liddle Collection Printed Books

The Liddle Collection is an archive of First and Second World War material, which its founder, Peter Liddle, began to collect from veterans and their descendants in the early 1970s.

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Pétain-Laval : the conspiracy

Comert, Pierre; Sadleir, Michael (1888-1957)

1942

"The author... prefers to remain anonymous ... The bulk of the material appeared serially in France (the French daily paper published in London) during August 1942" - p.[iii-iv].

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The trial of German major war criminals : proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany (part 1)

International Military Tribunal

1946-1951

"Taken from the original transcript" -- t.p.

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Liddle Collection (Museum Objects)

1899-1945

The Liddle Collection includes the personal papers of well over 4,000 people who lived through the First World War, and approximately 500 who experienced the Second World War. The Museum Objects Colle...

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Liddle Collection (First World War)

1914-1918

Letters and diaries, official and personal papers, photographs, newspapers, artwork and recollections of the First World War.

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Liddle Collection (Second World War)

1939-1945

Letters and diaries, official and personal papers, photographs, newspapers, artwork and recollections of the Second World War.

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Australia (AU)

c.1914-1918

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Art Work (AW)

c.1914-1918

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Baker Souvenirs (BA)

c.1914-1918

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British Equipment (BE)

c.1914-1918

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