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Liddle Collection19
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2
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Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1

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world war i26
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Mclellan, Sidney W2
2nd Northern General Hospital (Leeds, England)1
Bauman, Janina (1926-2009)1
Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017)1
Borg, Alan1
Braithwaite, Leonard Ralph (1878-1942)1
Butler, Henry A1
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)1
Clemenceau, Georges (1841-1929)1
Cutler, G Ripley1

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Archive Collection

Papers of Janina and Zygmunt Bauman

Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017); Bauman, Janina (1926-2009)

1945-2015

Most of the material relates to the professional careers of Zygmunt Bauman and his first wife, Janina Bauman (writer). It includes correspondence (with academics of sociology, philosophy and other dis...

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BARKER, Mrs AM

1970-1999

This section contains brief notes on in interview (Tape No. 980) with A. Barker, a woman born to a Jewish family in Leeds. It details instances of antisemitism in both Leeds and Newcastle, specificall...

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BICKLER, J

1914-1919

This file contains a transcript of an interview (Tape No. 944) with J. Bickler, a Private in the British Army. It details life and service serving in the Royal Fusiliers Regiment (Jewish Battalion), o...

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GORB, D

1914-1919

This section contains the transcript of an interview (Tape No. 919) with D. Gorb who served as Company Quartermaster Sergeant for the 40th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Regiment (Jewish Battalion). It det...

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LEFTWICH, J

1914-1918

Ths collection contains a transcript of an interview with Joseph Leftwich in which he recalls life as a young Jew in the East End of London. He was born in Holland to an Orthodox Jewish family and mov...

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PARSONS, Mrs OLIVE N

1914-1918

This section contains a transcript (Tape No. 1200) of an interview with Olive Parsons regarding her life as a young Socialist in London. Parsons was born into a Jewish family in Britain in 1892. She l...

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MARKS, LAWRENCE

1914-1918

This section includes a transcript of an interview with Lawrence Marks by his grandson, D. Jacobs, around 1971. Marks served as a private in the 2nd Bn. Welsh Regt. which had been comprised largely of...

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GOLDSTEIN, SAM

1914-1918

This section includes a Jewish pocket prayer book owned by Sgt Sam Goldstein of the 6th Bn. Yorkshire Regt during the First World War. The book has two handwritten inscriptions. The first details serg...

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Photos and discharge documents

1914-1918

This section is comprised of material relating to the service of Privates Phillips, Mendelson and Zabit, who fought during the First World War. It houses photographs of the soldiers and the transfer/d...

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MENDOZA, J

1914-1918

This section includes the identity discs (aka. dog tags) of J1029 Pte J. Mendoza, 38th Royal Fusiliers. The battalion was one of the first Jewish-only units in the British army, specifically establish...

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ROSENTHALL, M G C

1914-1918

This section includes printed photographs of Simeon Rosenthall who was a driver with the Machine Guns Corps during the First World War. There is also a news story from the Daily Mail detailing Rosenth...

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Photographs of Berkeley G. A. Moynihan and Leonard Braithwaite and their surgical unit, in France during the First World War

1914

Contains 18 black and white photographs of Berkeley Moynihan and Leonard Braithwaite during their service in the Army Medical Service during the First World War. They were stationed in France in 1914;...

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