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Total number of records: 8

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Brotherton Collection8
English Literature8
Herbert Read Collection8

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anarchism8
art8
art, modern8
english poetry8
modernism (art)8
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Archive File

Book contracts and agreements A

1929 - 1970

This file contains originals and copies of UK and overseas book contracts, agreements, and some associated correspondence relating to the following books by Herbert Read. Some agreements were made pos...

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Invitations and programmes

1944 - 1949

This file contains invitations to events and event programmes, including: The Place of the Arts in Education, Cambridgeshire Education Committee, Cambridge, 1944. 2 brochures. Herbert Read gave a sp...

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Notebook 14: Grey notebook

c.1914-1968

Grey lined notebook, with Herbert Read, Stonegrave, York written on fly leaf. Contains manuscript drafts with the following titles: Art as a Unifying Principle in Education (Presidential address ...

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Scrapbooks

1919 - 1964

This box contains 3 green leather-bound scrapbooks, with indexes, containing newspaper cuttings of reviews of Herbert Read’s work in chronological order. Book 1 covers the years 1919 – 1935 and ...

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Archive Art Sub-series

Original art works

1952 - 1968

This file contains original lithographs by: Alfred Manessier (signed, no. 62 of 200, cover of an exhibition catalogue, Galerie de France, 1952). Massimo Campigli ("Deux Femmes assises”, signed, n...

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Art works catalogue and insurance paperwork

1950 - 1968

This file contains correspondence and associated material including statements, cheques, receipts and lists of art works relating to various insurance, including of art works, taken out by Herbert Rea...

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Kindlers Malerei Lexicon

c.1959 - 1968

Correspondence, notes and associated material relating to Herbert Read's work on the first edition of Kindler's Malerei Lexicon. These substantial files are arranged in approximate chronological order...

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Miscellaneous articles

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1929-1969

This file contains clippings and offprints of published articles, letters, poems and plays by Herbert Read. In most cases the articles have been cut from their original context, but where an entire co...

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