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Total number of records: 6594

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Books and printed items4513
Archives1160
Textiles679
Indexes121
Objects53
Art items36
Coins21
People and organisations11

Top 10: Collection group

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Brotherton Collection1493
English Literature884
International Textile Collection680
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society154
Art and Antique Market100
Incunabula97
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture97
Liddle Collection87
Herbert Read Collection83
Quaker Collection83

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english poetry92
theology65
occupations63
conduct of life43
implements, utensils etc39
english literature37
etiquette35
architecture34
french literature33
culture32

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France185
Great Britain174
United Kingdom112
China88
Europe64
Greece63
Indonesia53
Turkey50
India40
England38

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)149
La Place, Pierre Antoine De (1707-1793)111
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)111
La Place, Pierre Antoine De109
Marmontel, Jean-Francois108
Marmontel, Jean-Francois (1723-1799)108
Bastide, Jean Francois De107
Bastide, Jean Francois De (1724-1798)107
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)91
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)87

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Archive Print Item

Conversation pieces

Art Exhibitions Bureau

[1960?]

Catalogue of an exhibition circulated by the Art Exhibitions Bureau, London.

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Mixed media

Triple Piece

Loxton, Jan

1990

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Archive File

Piece of Fabric

1914-1918

Piece of fabric from Gotha shot down over Margate on 22.12.17. See M.Couchman, GS, Diary 18.7.17 - 12.2.18 pp74-75

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Archive Series

Pieces of Land

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1970-1979

This series contains items relating to Crossley-Holland's travel book 'Pieces of Land', published in 1972. Includes correspondence, drafts, and research materials.

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Time pieces

Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006); Johns, Emily

c1988

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Framed pieces

Mayor, David

[197-]

A length of elastic thread is enclosed. Catalogued from page [3].

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Fugitive pieces

Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)

1780

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Archive Object File

Pieces of embroidery

1914-1918

5 x pieces of embroidery, coloured thread on black background showing badges of the Worcestershire Rest. Royal Warwickshire Rest. Royal Engineers and Army Vetinerv Corns. The 5th is a floral design, p...

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Archive File

Archive File

Pieces of Furniture

c.1940-c.2000

Alphabetically arranged research notes on different types of furniture ranging from different types of chair ('gondola', 'hall', 'library') to chiffoniers, dinner wagons, towel horses and wardrobes. A...

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[Miscellaneous pieces]

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

[s.d.]

Collection of essays [by Herbert Read] extracted from various publications.

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Title: A night piece

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious reflections on death as the common fate of mankind, and on the

transience and folly of human life

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