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Total number of records: 1166

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Indexes	592
Books and printed items	301
Archives	247
Coins	11
Textiles	10
Art items	4
People and organisations	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Quaker Collection	580
Brotherton Collection	109
English Literature	56
Letters Database	32
Leeds Russian Archive	31
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman	30
University Archive	24
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	24
Liddle Collection	20
Herbert Read Collection	12

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
swedish language	74
letters	15
english poetry	7
jews	7
culture	6
english language - dialects	6
russians	6
british	5
russian literature	5
american poetry	4

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Leeds	62
Rawdon	26
Bradford	21
Brighouse	19
Halifax	19
Settle	17
Huddersfield	14
Gildersome	12
Bentham	11
Great Britain	9

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Svenska Akademien	47
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	19
Hellquist, Elof (1864-1933)	13
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)	7
Gwin, Thomas (1656?-1720)	6
Vendell, Herman Albert (1853-1907)	5
Hartley, Marie	4
Juvenal	4
Madan, Martin	4
Madan, Martin (1726-1790)	4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	2
From 100	4
From 300	3
From 500	1
From 600	1
From 1100	1
From 1200	4
From 1300	1
From 1400	9
From 1500	5
From 1600	40
From 1700	49
From 1800	138
From 1900	288
From 2000	23

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	2
Up to 199	4
Up to 399	3
Up to 599	1
Up to 699	1
Up to 1299	4
Up to 1499	9
Up to 1599	4
Up to 1699	39
Up to 1799	44
Up to 1899	124
Up to 1999	264
Up to latest	69

Archive Item

Union News, issue 197

10/11/1961

Dance-Hall Race Ban: Pickets Plan Protest

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Archive Item

One box containing: Jeremy Reed: Elegies 'This is how you disappear', correspondence and material relating to upcoming poetry collections. Responses and revievs of his book 'Duck and Sally Inside'. ...

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Archive Piece

St John the Baptist (fol. 197v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

The miniature shows St John the Baptist, imprisoned in a castle tower, about to be decapitated. Herod looks on and Salome holds a dish to receive the head.

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Archive Piece

King David and the Judgement of Solomon (fol. 197r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'B' encloses a scene of King David playing his harp. The other initial 'B' encloses the scene of the judgement of Solomon, in which Solomon commands a soldier to divide a living child in two. ...

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