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Total number of records: 13

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection3
English Literature2
Business Archives1
Leeds Poetry1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters3
education2
literature2
textile industry2
art, english1
childhood1
cinematography1
drawing1
economic policy1
economics1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
London, United Kingdom1
Rome, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)1
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)1
Bomford, Philip1
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)1
Drummond-Wolff, Henry (1899-1982)1
Gosse Family1
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)1
Gosse, Ellen (1850-1929)1
Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)1

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From 17002
From 18004
From 19006

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Up to 18991
Up to 199910
Up to latest2

Archive Sub-collection

Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth

Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)

c.1945-1981

1141 pamphlets held in 40 pamphlet boxes on 5 shelves. Sorted and boxed by broad subject. Possibly the bequest of Lord Boyle, ca.1981 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H....

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Archive Collection

PAPERS OF W HORNSBY, SALTBURN, INCLUDING LETTERS AND PAMPHLETS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOPICS

1902-1937

Including letters received from F Elgee, W Farrer, FG Simpson, F Villey and R E M Wheeler

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Archive File

Papers and blocks of illustrations relating to the early history of cinematography and of the steam engine and locomotive, compiled by E. Kilburn Scott

Scott, E Kilburn

c. 1920

Includes correspondence from Merritt Crawford, T. Bedding, R.W. Paul & A. Docker, Will Day, Metz, Le Prince, George Baxter, T.W. Crosland, Matthew Murray, J.F. Stirling, E. Kilburn Scott and others. A...

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Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers

Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964); Barker, Benjamin (1838-); Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)

1869-1931

The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...

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Archive Judaica Collection

Cecil Roth Collection

1200-1999

Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...

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Archive Collection

Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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Archive Sub-collection

Additional papers of Frank Beckwith

Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)

1774-1960

This accrual comprises 7 boxes. Box 1 includes typed copies of articles from the 'Gentleman’s Magazine' c.1790, relating to the history of the Baptist church with notes and references, 2 folders of...

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Arthur Smithells correspondence and papers

Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)

1875-1955

Arthur Smithells (1860-1939) was born at Bury in Lancashire. He graduated in chemistry at Owen's College, Manchester, in 1881 (BSc, London) and subsequently continued his training in Heidelberg, under...

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Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond-Wolff correspondence and papers

Drummond-Wolff, Henry (1899-1982)

1928-1983

Henry Drummond-Wolff was the son of Cecil Drummond-Wolff and grandson of Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff, the Tory politician who, in the 1880s, had formed the 'fourth party' with Lord Randolph Churchill, Ar...

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Archive Sub-collection

Papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall

1749-1897

The papers in this collection consist largely of legal documents and correspondence, of which very many are copies or drafts. No attempt has been made to describe the latter more closely than as 'draf...

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Archive Collection

Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Archive Series

Unemployment Assistance Board papers

Lynes, Tony (1929-2014); Unemployment Assistance Board (1934-)

1923-2005

Box 7 contains SSRC applications and correspondence; draft of chapters of Lynes’ book on Unemployment Assistance Board (UAB). Box 8 contains Report on public assistance, 1972; Penguin Guide to sup...

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