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Brotherton Collection3
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2
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education9
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Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
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Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham Baron (1778-1868)2
Butler, Samuel (1774-1839)2
James, Eric Baron James (1909-1992)2
Plato2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Montesquieu, Charles De Secondat, Baron De, 1689-17551
Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)1
Shrewsbury School (Shrewsbury, England)1

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The reflector : representing human affairs, as they are : and may be improved

Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)

1750

Attributed to Peter Shaw.--NUC pre-1956. Essays. I iv: "Of the Sciences" [including "Natural Philosophy" and "Rhetoric"]; I viii: "Of Authors and Censors"; I ix: "Of Poetry and Rhime"; I x: "Of Poet...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

17 August 1973

Frank Weatherill , recorded at home in Danby; talks about a local storyteller; tall tales; storytelling as a form of amusement; local legends regarding hammer throwing (example from Lastingham); FW's ...

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Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth

Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)

c.1945-1981

1141 pamphlets held in 40 pamphlet boxes on 5 shelves. Sorted and boxed by broad subject. Possibly the bequest of Lord Boyle, ca.1981 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H....

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Plato's ideas on art and education

James, Eric Baron James (1909-1992)

1975

"The 1974 York lecture."

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Plato's ideas on art and education

James, Eric Baron James (1909-1992)

1975

"The 1974 York lecture."

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Lectures on education, read to a society for promoting reasonable and humane improvements in the discipline and instruction of youth (v.1)

Williams, David (1738-1816)

1789

Vol.4 has title: Lectures on political principles; the subjects of eighteen books, in Montesquieu's Spirit of laws.

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Edward Boyle

February 1974

University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor (1970-1981), Edward Boyle (centre), speaking with William Walsh (Professor of Commonwealth Literature and a Douglas Grant Fellow, 1972-1981) during a visit by the D...

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A letter to Henry Brougham, Esq., M.P., on certain clauses in the Education Bills now before Parliament

Butler, Samuel (1774-1839); Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham Baron (1778-1868)

1820

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