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Total number of records: 33

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Record typeCount
Books and printed items29
Archives4

Count of Collection group

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society15
Brotherton Collection7
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Leeds Russian Archive2
English Literature1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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travel33
chronology, historical11
buildings4
culture3
home3
occupations3
play3
cab and omnibus service2
community life2
english language - dialects2

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England16
Wales11
Europe, Northern2
France2
Paris (France)2
Africa, Southern1
Angleterre1
Asia1
Asia, Central1
Cumbria (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Burnett, William Civil Engineer11
Dugdale, Thomas11
Tallis, L11
Townsend, Leonard11
Coxe, William (1747-1828)2
Craik, George L (1798-1866)2
Jervis, John2
Jervis, John (1802-1856)2
Kitchiner, William (1775?-1827)2
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)2

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From 17001
From 180026
From 19005

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Up to 189926
Up to 19995

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Jerrold, Douglas William to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

20 Oct 1856

Handwritten letter from Douglas William Jerrold to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, providing details of his domestic and forthcoming travel plans for the autumn.

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Travels in Northern Asia

Bentham, Christopher

1823

Illustration included in pagination.

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The stranger in Liverpool, or, An historical and descriptive view of the town of Liverpool and its environs

1820

Folded plan of Liverpool; epitome; appendix has extract from ancient manuscript.

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...

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Picturesque Warwickshire

Brassington, William Salt (1859-1939)

[between 1900 and 1999?]

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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Paris : its historical buildings, and its revolutions with illustrations

Craik, George L (1798-1866); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

1849

Attributed to George Lillie Craik.

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Paris : its historical buildings, and its revolutions with illustrations (c.2)

Craik, George L (1798-1866); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

1849

Attributed to George Lillie Craik.

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A tour to Scarborough in 1803 : including a particular survey of the city of York

Hutton, William (1723-1815)

1817

Includes index.

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