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Total number of records: 823

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Brotherton Collection823
Herbert Read Collection292
English Literature144
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections78
Leeds Poetry31
ApIvor Collection11
Rudolf Laban Collections6
Medieval Manuscripts2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
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world war, 1939-1945143
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poetry9
world war, 1914-19189
english literature8

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Top 10: People and organisations

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Sheppard, Thomas (1876-1945)54
Valery, Paul (1871-1945)32
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)20
Smith, Lady Eleanor Furneaux (1902-1945)20
Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)18
Hull City Museums & Art Galleries15
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)14
Hull City Museums and Art Galleries13
Cassirer, Ernst (1874-1945)11
Bond, Frederick Bligh (1864-1945)9

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Hiroshima 1945

Maruki, Iri (1901-1995); Maruki, Toshi (1912-2000); Museum van Oudheden (Groningen, Netherlands)

[1957]

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum van Oudheden, Groningen, 19 January - 18 February; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, 26 January - 19 February; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 22 February - 25 Mar...

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5. B 1945

c.1953

B 1945. [1953?] MS 77ff. Outline chronological notes for the years 1919-1920; auto-biographical notes for the years 1945-53. Includes an account of a visit to the home of John Masefield in 1951, and 2...

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Art Since 1945

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Richards, Ceri Geraldus (1903-1971); Wynter, Bryan (1915-1975); Sutherland, Graham (1903-1980); Grohmann, Will (1887-1968)

1958

Contains paperwork chiefly relating to illustrative plates for Art Since 1945, (Thames and Hudson, 1958) for which Read wrote the chapter on Great Britain.

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Art since 1945

Brion, Marcel (1895-1984)

[1958]

Bibliography: p. 349.

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Journal, 1930-1945

Gilliard, Edmond (1875-)

1945

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Poems, 1933-1945

Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981)

1946

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Poems, 1933-1945

Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981)

1946

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A Warsaw diary, 1939-1945

Zylberberg, Michael

1969

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British painting since 1945

Alley, Ronald; Tate Gallery

1966

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British sculpture since 1945

Farr, Dennis (1929-2006); De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969); Tate Gallery

1965

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British painting, 1910-1945

Morphet, Richard; Tate Gallery

1967

"Exclusively distributed in USA and Canada by Arno Press... New York."

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Picasso : 55 lithographs, 1945-1947

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); James, Philip; Arts Council of Great Britain

[1947]

Catalogue of an exhibition sponsored by The Arts Council of Great Britain; introduction by Philip James.

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