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Total number of records: 523

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Archives206
Indexes175
Books and printed items140
Objects1
Textiles1

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Quaker Collection201
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman74
English Literature69
Brotherton Collection59
Leeds Russian Archive22
Leeds Poetry11
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
Liddle Collection9
University Archive9
Art and Antique Market6

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letters9
russians6
architecture5
postcards5
british4
english poetry4
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.4
sculpture4
cabinetwork3
english drama3

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Leeds19
Rawdon14
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Halifax7
Brighouse5
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Farfield3
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hawkesworth, John (1715?-1773)36
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)36
Dryden, John (1631-1700)7
Brothers, Richard (1757-1824)6
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)5
Mason, Martin (1650-1676)4
Orleans, Pierre Joseph D' (1641-1698)4
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
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Archive Object Item

arrowhead

No date

An Oxo cubes tin containing a stone arrowhead.

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A man and a monster (fol. 27r)
Archive Piece

A man and a monster (fol. 27r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man holding an open book, and a grotesque with a man's head on a lion's body holding twigs bundled together.

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Archive Item

Feoffment in trust

(7 Sep 1626)

By Roger Grene to James Armitage and John Grene, both of Thickhollins, yeomen, to the use of Roger's daughter Helen, in consideration of a marriage planned between her and Godfrey Hirst, son of John H...

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Archive Item

Gift

22 Oct 1333

1. Henry le Barker of Couwik 2. Alexander son of Thomas de Crideling and Agnes his wife

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SOUZA (Robert de) [F]

19/08/1910

Paris, 23 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne 19 August 1910

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Dayo Okunlola

16 Oct 1989-1 Aug 2005

Webpage printout on author profile from Peepal Tree website, author questionnaire from Peepal Tree, photographs of author, contract for Without Extremities, promotional poster, newspaper clippings, ha...

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Archive File

Screens - Oriental

c.1950 - c.2017

Cuttings and articles from various periodicals, press and auction catalogues referencing oriental designed/produced screens and panels.

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Archive File

Home House, London

c.1950 - c.2010

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Archive Item

Henry Hopkins billhead

Henry Hopkins

07 Dec 1911-18 Jan 1912

Pictorial billhead of Henry Hopkins for an order of stop taps for York Waterworks Company.

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B 50.jpg

Women's Aid Federation of England

12 Oct 2021

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