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Total number of records: 11

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5
Leeds Russian Archive5

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politics and government11
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AmalʹRik, Andreĭ (1938-1980)1
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691)1
Bury, Herbert Bp (1853-1933)1
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)1
Eitingon Family1
Figes, Orlando1
Higgenbottom1
Higginbottom, Mr Bernard1
Hilton, Mr Arthur1
Kennan, George F (1904-2005)1

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Guilty women

Baxter, Richard (1615-1691); De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

1943

"First published 1941... Fourth edition 1943" -- title page verso.

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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991

Figes, Orlando

2014

Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- The start -- The "dress rehearsal" -- Last hopes -- War and revolution -- The February Revolution -- Lenin's revolution -- Civil War an...

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Sketches from a life

Kennan, George F (1904-2005)

[2000]

Includes bibliographical references.

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The Eitingons : a twentieth-century story

Wilmers, Mary-Kay

2010

Originally published: 2009.

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Woman and Marriage in Islam

Yedder, Abderahmane Muhammed

1975

Study submitted for the postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies, with chapters on the definition of marriage in the tradition of Islam, marriage among Jahilia (the Arab before Islam), woman before a...

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"Gypsies and Travellers in Yorkshire"

Wyman, Melvyn

1980

M.A. study of Gypsy Traveller culture, and their material culture in particular, based on fieldwork carried out on camp sites in West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, at the National Gypsy Education Cou...

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Igbo Lineage Head
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Igbo Lineage Head

Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu

1978

Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of an Igbo lineage head (elderly male) from the Nigerian East Central State, holding an ofa, a stick which symbolises the ritual and political authorit...

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Statʹi i pisʹma 1967-1970

Amalʹrik, Andreĭ (1938-1980)

1971

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Topping Out Ceremony

July 1967

Topping out ceremony at a new block of flats near Swiss Cottage, London. The ceremony is traditional in the building industry, and marks either the roofing-in of a building, or the half-way stage in t...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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