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Total number of records: 139

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Brotherton Collection139
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Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections12
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Letters Database7
Incunabula4
ApIvor Collection2
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english poetry7
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Fabian Society (Great Britain)12
Webb, Sidney (1859-1947)12
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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)3
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)3
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Archive File

Enitharmon Archive: Box 181

c.2005-2006

One box containing: David Gascoyne: Various papers relating to a bibliography being made about him. Press items and also Kathleen Raines work on Gascoyne. A huge amount of unpublished material trans...

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'B/18/1 West African Examinations Council' file

1963

Various typed memorandum and responses between the Registrar at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and

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Title: Book 24. Page 181 (f.84r). Extracts out of Orlando Furioso (heading f.90v)

Author: Hoole, John

Date(s): 1783 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 100

Contents: Contrasts the actions of 'good' and 'bad' men. While both are faced with evils, the good man fights against them, while the bad gives in to them. One of a number of extracts from Hoole's translation of Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' (BCMSV 6165-6184)

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Title: On Vice Chamberlain Bertue. 1699

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1699 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Satire on Peregrine Bertie, vice-chamberlain of the royal household

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Floral border (fol. 7r)
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Floral border (fol. 7r)

[ca. 1404-1425]

Full bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue with, at the corners, clusters of acanthus leaves and aroid flowers. From the border clusters of spray penwork extend gold balls with green squiggles. 7-...

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Katherine Mansfield : and other literary studies

Murry, John Middleton (1889-1957)

1959

With studies of George Gissing and Henry Williamson.

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Archive Print Item

Childhood's love

Romains, Jules (1885-1972)

1934

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Alive : the story of the Andes survivors

Read, Piers Paul (1941-)

c1974

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Photograph of the First Labour Cabinet

1924

1 very large photographic print of the first Labour cabinet with individuals identified.

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