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Total number of records: 731
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 332 |
| Brotherton Collection | 55 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 46 |
| English Literature | 18 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 18 |
| Liddle Collection | 11 |
| Maurice de Sausmarez Archive | 7 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 4 |
| Janina and Zygmunt Bauman | 3 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 3 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Kissling, Werner (1895-1988) | 139 |
| Mably, Gabriel Bonnot De (1709-1785) | 44 |
| Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706) | 37 |
| Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) | 33 |
| Carr, Edward Hallett (1892-1982) | 24 |
| Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745) | 22 |
| Moreri, Louis (1643-1680) | 22 |
| Brizard, Gabriel (1793) | 20 |
| Chaudon, L M (1737-1817) | 19 |
| Arnoux, Guillaume | 15 |
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John William Jacob papers
Jacob, John William
c.1880-1930
Comprises manuscript notes and press cuttings, mostly on history and education-related subjects
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....
Books of notes taken by Maurice Warwick Beresford from lectures in history whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, 1938-1941
Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)
1938-1941
(1) Bernard Lord Manning annd Zachary Nugent Brooke on early medieval European history: session 1938-1939. ii, 97 ff. (2) Michael Mo?ssey Postan on medieval English economic history: session 1938-39. ...
Relics of the Past
1965-1976
This sub-subseries contains items relating to prehistoric and historic sites, chiefly within the United Kingdom.
Regional Social Histories
1969-1982
This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
Sky and Weather; Natural Formations
1961-1975
This subseries contains items on weatherlore, natural formations in the landscape and ancient stone monuments.
Towns
1966
This subseries, comprising one file, contains a photocopy of Stewart Sanderson and Stuart Piggott's chapter on Edinburgh and its history and development, from the Edinburgh volume of 'The Third Statis...
Social Intercourse
1967-1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...
Parish and Church
[1965-1975]
This subseries, comprising a single file only, includes Werner Kissling's ms. notes on the Foresters' Walk in Coverdale (connected with the Ancient Order of Foresters) and its byelaws; Margaret Ottley...
Towns
1968-1979
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...
Social Questions
[1960s-1970s]
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to labour and industrial unrest. This includes an ms. account, compiled from an original ms. source, of a Luddite attack on Cartwright...