Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 458 records

Total number of records: 458

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Indexes173
Books and printed items165
Archives120

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Quaker Collection171
Leeds Russian Archive24
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman22
Brotherton Collection21
University Archive14
English Literature7
Feminist Archive North7
Liddle Collection6
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5
Leeds Poetry5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cities and towns110
russians10
letters8
russian literature6
culture5
english language - dialects4
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.4
manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.4
photographs4
furniture design3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Germany110
Leeds11
Halifax10
Skipton9
Rawdon8
Brighouse6
Bradford5
Netherdale5
Gildersome4
Mankinholes4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Andermahr, Heinz110
Ennen, Edith110
Flink, Klaus110
Landschaftsverband Rheinland. Amt Fur Rheinische Landeskunde110
Lvr-Institut Fur Landeskunde Und Regionalgeschichte110
Muller, Martin (Cartographer)110
Universitat Bonn. Institut Fur Geschichtliche Landeskunde Der Rheinlande110
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)30
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 10001
From 13001
From 14002
From 15003
From 16009
From 170012
From 180055
From 1900187
From 20008

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 14992
Up to 15993
Up to 16997
Up to 179913
Up to 189943
Up to 199961
Up to latest149

Title: An Acrostick Epitaph upon Mr M. Mead M.B. Philo-musus. Prov:10.7. The Memory of the Just is Blessed.

Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)

Date(s): 170-?

Manuscript: Lt 98

Contents: Acrostic epitaph, envisioning the body of Matthew Mead as a cabinet and his soul as a jewel, with the two separated by death but conjoined again in resurrection; succeeded by Latin version of the same

More details


Archive File

Letter from Mary Laramee Haynes, 1970 Robin Road, San Marino, California; to Katherine Briggs.

3 Jun 1977

Concerning some tapes of folk tales. MS, signed. 1f. In envelope.

More details

Floral border and initial (fol. 62r)
Archive Piece

Floral border and initial (fol. 62r)

[ca. 1480-1500]

4-line initial in blue and gold, infilled with a pink and a purple flower, with white penwork decoration. Three-sided border of flowers, leaves and gold discs with concentric penwork tendrils.

More details and larger image


Archive File

Talismans, Magical Techniques, Charms, Etc.

1966-1979

The file contains an ms. letter from Evelyn Briggs on a superstition associated with seeing pigs on the way to the [horse] races (16 October 1972); Mary Corringham's article on talismans and their use...

More details


Archive Item

Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Nathaniel Bland, Beeston, Yorkshire

28 Jul 1716

Regarding a cock's egg and a printed account of medicines himself prepared in his laboratory

More details


Archive File

Leeds School of Medicine 150th Anniversary, 1982: Part 2

Sep 1982

File of papers relating to the University of Leeds School of Medicine 150th Anniversary celebrations, held between 17-18 September 1982.

More details


Archive File

European Organization of Research on the treatment of Cancer

1986-1988

Contains a letter, menu and invitation to the 10th Anniversary Dinner of the European Organization of Research on the Treatment of Cancer [Oct 1986]; and a pamphlet call for papers for the 8th Congres...

More details