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Brotherton Collection8016
English Literature4192
Herbert Read Collection1732
Leeds Russian Archive801
Liddle Collection700
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Leeds Poetry478
Letters Database410
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections388

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world war, 1914-1918603
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letters187
press cuttings167
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)397
Cicero, Marcus Tullius168
Virgil155
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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)134
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)134
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)101
Swan Press (Leeds)99
Blake, William, 1757-182796
Kelmscott Press95

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

H.E.Hopthrow (GS) Diary 30.9.17 - Difficulty in getting newspapers. 19.9.18 - Getting London newspapers everyday.

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

S.C.Marriott (GS) Typescript of letters p50, 2.6.15 "The papers up north are saturated with letters about our work and we are rather sick about it". Also 3rd set p7 & 8, 12.10.18 -

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

R.J.Bevington (GS) Letters - 2.12.14 No.17 "The inaccuracy and misreporting of the English press are a continual source of wonder and amusement and rage to everyone ... lots of the letters purporting to come from the soldiers are also faked". Rush to read the sports page - not the news (letter 23)

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

J.E.Smart (GS) Field Message book 4.1.18 - Letter to Daily Express Sports Fund. Delivery of "Victory Trumpets" used as candlesticks. "Don't insult them [the British Tommy] by representing them as kids ...".

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

R.Rapp (GS) Letter 24.5.15 for criticism of Harmsworth Press. Attack on Lord Kitchener "likely to do us considerable harm by creating the impression in Germany that we are a divided house. The Daily Mail has made itself highly obnoxious to all troops out here".

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

R.V.Maudsley (GS) Letter 5 (23.2.15) - one or two of the accounts of the fighting rather exaggersted, the majority quite right. Letter 11 (19.5.15) "It is a disgrace that the ,truth is

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

In French Section under Robert Crawford - interesting letter, 2.9.14, re escape of English lady journalist for "Truth" from Senlers in face of advancing Germans.

Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

H.A.Ryott (GS) Letter 6.5.15 "everything in England is misled by the papers which are a long way too optimistic".

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Category: Press/Attitudes to the Press

I.L.Read (GS) Memoir p84 - Attitude to journalists at home (specifically in the patriotic magazine John Bull.)

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Archive Series

Press

Opera North

1979-2015

Press material relating to Opera North including reviews, editorials, articles and press cuttings.

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Archive Print Item

Three private presses : Saint Dominic's Press, the Press of Edward Walters, Saint Albert's Press : an account

Sewell, Brocard

1979

An enlarged and illustrated version of the booklet accompanying the catalogue of the exhibition of the work of these presses, held in 1976 at the National Book League, London. "250 numbered copies s...

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Archive Print Item

The Fleece Press : the private press of Simon Lawrence

Lawrence, Simon; Fleece Press

1999

"770 copies".

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