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Travel (Brotherton Collection)
1600-1800
Works on European and Mediterranean travel in the period 1600 to 1800. Many of the works are descriptions of individual countries (including Russia, Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Italy and Spain), by E...
BUNINA, Vera Nikolaevna (1881-1961) (1)
1920-1961
V N Bunina's archive dates almost entirely from the period between her emigration from Russia in 1920 and her death in 1961. It comprises her literary works, notes, diaries, personal documents, corres...
ANDREEV, Leonid (1870-1919) (1)
1890-1976
Comprises Leonid Andreev's personal and literary papers, correspondence, and photographs, together with printed biographical and critical material; also, correspondence and other papers relating to An...
BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (1)
1920-1953
I A Bunin's so-called 'Paris Archive' was mostly created between the writer's emigration from Russia in 1920 and his death in Paris in 1953. Its main features are literary manuscripts, typescripts and...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Pitkannen, Hannu
[1960s/early 1970s]
[Collector announcement, in which he provides background information on his fieldwork project, the locations visited and informants interviewed; he also comments on the quality of the recordings, the ...
New Statesman, associated correspondence and literary papers 1914-1919 and 1960-1983
New Statesman
1914-1983
The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...
ZEMGOR Archive
1910s-1970s
Zemgor is a Russian emigre welfare organisation based in Paris. It originated in Russia during World War I, when two rural and urban local-government and public-service umbrella bodies, Zemskii soiuz ...
Papers and blocks of illustrations relating to the early history of cinematography and of the steam engine and locomotive, compiled by E. Kilburn Scott
Scott, E Kilburn
c. 1920
Includes correspondence from Merritt Crawford, T. Bedding, R.W. Paul & A. Docker, Will Day, Metz, Le Prince, George Baxter, T.W. Crosland, Matthew Murray, J.F. Stirling, E. Kilburn Scott and others. A...
Czesław Lejewski Collection
Lejewski, Czesław (1913-2001)
1932-1995
The collection includes Lejewski's manuscript notes and formulae created during his research together with drafts and typescripts of his published works. It contains typescript drafts and reprints of...
Aylmer Maude correspondence and papers
Maude, Aylmer (1858-1938)
1901-1914
This handlist records over 200 letters and other documents mainly from Aylmer Maude (1858-1938), English translator, biographer and publicist of Tolstoy, to George Herbert Perris (1866-1920) and to Ch...
ZUROV, Leonid Fedorovich (1902-1971)
1905-2013
A photograph of L F Zurov taken in about 1905 is the oldest item in this collection, while the most recent items include papers and other personal effects found in his wallet after his death. The majo...