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Total number of records: 3194

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1586
Archives1535
Indexes59
People and organisations10
Art items3
Textiles1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture938
Brotherton Collection736
English Literature494
Herbert Read Collection186
Liddle Collection139
Quaker Collection82
Leeds Russian Archive72
Letters Database61
Leeds Poetry58
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society38

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english essays157
culture118
community life101
english literature90
english language - dialects87
occupations70
education61
english drama55
manners and customs55
english poetry53

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England821
Yorkshire165
Great Britain109
Lincolnshire70
Essex34
Lancashire32
France29
Staffordshire28
Norfolk26
Somerset26

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)299
Wright, Peter187
Wright, John T100
Chalmers, Alexander95
Chalmers, Alexander (1759-1834)95
Granger, James (1723-1776)70
Barbauld66
Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825)66
Sykes, Donald Richard62
Barry, Michael V (1935-)60

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From 160011
From 1700151
From 18001113
From 19001862
From 200036

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Up to 16999
Up to 1799130
Up to 18991040
Up to 19991888
Up to latest101

Archive Sub-series

Biographical

1927-1993

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Biographical

1951-1971

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Archive File

Biographical Information

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1993

Photocopy of biographical information on Jon Silkin for the Kenkyusha anthology.

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I. Biographical

1909-1968

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Archive Sub-series

Biographical accounts

1960-1999

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Biographical memoirs

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

1827

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Biographical Notes

Morris, Patricia M

n.d.

Ms. biographical notes on Lily Gaunt and Olive Metcalf. Includes their address, where they were born and brought up, and a bit of general information about the Kirkstall and Bramley areas of Leeds.

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Adventures of a biographer

Bowen, Catherine Drinker (1897-1973)

[1959]

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Biographical studies

Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877); Hutton, Richard Holt (1826-1897)

1895

Contents: The character of Sir Robert Peel.--Lord Brougham.--Mr. Gladstone.--William Pitt.--Bolingbrooke as a statesman.--Sir George Cornewall Lewis.--Adam Smith as a person.--Lord Althrop and the Ref...

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