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Total number of records: 212

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items176
Archives32
Art items3
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection52
Leeds Russian Archive31
Cookery Collection22
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive17
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection16
Quaker Collection8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3
Herbert Read Collection3
English Literature2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
children212
conduct of life16
factory system11
children's stories9
family9
letter writing9
education8
architecture, domestic6
cooking6
dwellings6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom9
England4
Russia4
Soviet Union4
Genoa, Italy3
Leeds, United Kingdom3
Great Britain2
Spain2
Cambridge, United Kingdom1
Croagnes, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Davidson, H C6
Davidson, H. C6
Leeds Animation Workshop6
Kydd, Samuel5
Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)5
Buccarelli, Giovanni Battista4
Ernst, George4
Oastler, Richard (1789-1861)4
Sastres, Francesco4
Charron, Pierre (1541-1603)3

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Earliest dateCount
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From 16004
From 170014
From 1800101
From 190072
From 200011

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Up to 16995
Up to 17998
Up to 189997
Up to 199977
Up to latest16

Archive Object File

Photographs of Mary Sabilla Serle

c. 1848

Three daguerreotypes in maroon leather cases lined in red velvet. Photographic portraits of Mary Sabilla Serle when she was nine years old. She was the daughter of Cecilia Novello and Thomas James Ser...

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Project file for "Grief in the Family" film

2001 - 2006

This file comprises material relating to the film "Grief in the Family". The material largely relates to the funding of the film project by the Home Office and dissemination of the film in partnership...

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Project file for "Not Too Young To Grieve" film

2003 - 2010

This file comprises material relating to the film "Not Too Young To Grieve" also known as "Grief and the Young Child" in pre-production. The material largely relates to the funding of the film project...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Allsop, Thomas

28 Jun 1837-29 Aug 1837

Two handwritten letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to the author Thomas Allsop, mentioning her pleasure at the prospect of a business relationship between Allsop and her husband Charles Cowden Clarke alo...

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Wendy and Victor Pasmore to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1959

Handwritten note from Victor Pasmore to Maurice de Sausmarez on a printed leaflet for the National Exhibition of Children's Art 1959 and two handwritten postcards from Wendy and Victor Pasmore with Ch...

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Simon Willis to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1965

Undated handwritten letter from the artist and art teacher Simon Willis to Maurice de Sausmarez, communicating the arrival of his twin boys and discussing teaching dates, likely at Byam Shaw School of...

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درر الاحكام في شرح غرر الحكام duraru-lʾaḥkām fī šarḥi ġurari-lḥukkām

1033-1624

A discussion of 138 different laws; alimony, custody of children, interdiction etc. Author: محمد بن قرامون بن علي muḥammad bin qaramūn bin ʿaliyy

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London street arabs

Stanley, Mrs H M

1890

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