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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5
Brotherton Collection1
English Literature1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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history6
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Ethiopia1
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
7th Earl of Huntingdon1
Alice Violet Robson1
Barrett, Frank1
Ben Samuel, Jacob1
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Boss1
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)1
Carrington, Walter (1896-)1
Carter, Sid1

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Archive Collection

Additional Papers of Charles Travis Clay

Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978); Clay, Hon Alice Violet (1892-1972); Robson, William Snowden (1852-1918); Pilleau, Alice Caroline (1847-1935); Clay, Edith Margaret

1850-1972

The collection consists of: 1. Personal correspondence of Clay exchanged with family and friends. 2. Professional correspondence relating to Clay's war service, the Colonial Office, India Office...

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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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Archive Print Item

Library and archive resources in the history of science and medicine at the University of Leeds

Wood, P B; Golinski, J V

1981

Reprinted from: British journal for the history of science, 14 (48), 1981.

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Archive Collection

Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Coniston, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Jun 1954

[Side 1] Boss and Tom talk about being recorded for the Survey, discuss previous night's visit by fieldworker. [Side 2] Boss and Tom share memories of quarrying and work in copper mine, anecdotes abou...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

1965

Mrs. Forward, recorded in Cwmavon; talks about her son; the dole and Depression in the late 1920s/early 1930s; family; life in the valley; working at a furnace shovelling coal during World War One; hu...

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Archive Judaica File

[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...

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Archive Judaica File

[Letter of support to the Jews in Ethiopia (Beta Israel), October/November 1906–April 1908, signed by 1 secular Jewish leader and 43 rabbis from all over Europe, Pittsburg, PA (USA), Palestine, and Egypt (original)].

Faïtlovitch, Jacques

[1906–1908]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant title: Igeret el Yehude Ḥabash. (אגרת אל יהודי חבש (אתיופיה. Approximate dates of production may be derived from 2 dates given in the ...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1965-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Staffordshire locations 12St5-10. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1965. The date when this copy tape was made ...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Mr. Fisher of Thornhill, recorded in 1962; talks about working in a coal mine - hours of work, wages, scale picking (as a youngster); pushing tubs underground; describes the layout underground and the...

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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 ...

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