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Total number of records: 54

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Archives51
Books and printed items3

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Leeds Poetry32
Brotherton Collection29
English Literature29
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive19
Liddle Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive1

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interviews54
painting10
correspondence9
art history6
artists6
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)5
poetry readings4
books reviews3
poets as teachers3
universities and colleges united3

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Prague, Czech Republic1
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)7
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)6
Brown, Wayne5
Liddle, Peter H (1934-)2
British Broadcasting Corporation1
British Council1
Pomerantsev, Peter1
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)1
Various1

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Archive Series

The Poet Speaks (Various)

Various

c.1964-1966

Audio recordings of interviews with 8 poets conducted by Hilary Smith and Peter Orr as part of the British Council's 'The Poet Speaks' series.[Side1; Interview 1]: Hilary Smith interviews Martin Bell ...

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Swithenbank Papers

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This series contains files of information collected by Wayne Brown from members of the Swithenbank family for his biography of Edna Manley. Includes the following: - 1 file containing 1 manuscript a...

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Interviews

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1964-c.1981

Papers relating to interviews conducted with Geoffrey Hill, including radio interviews broadcast by the BBC on programmes Poetry Today and The Living Poet, and interviews conducted by Blake Morrison a...

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Archive Sub-series

Interview Transcripts

Brown, Wayne

1969-1972

This subseries contains transcripts of interviews conducted by Wayne Brown with Edna Manley, Ralph Swithinbank and Mona Swithinbank.

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Archive Sub-series

Copies on CD

c. 2010

Copies of audio recordings on CD of talks and interviews given by Maurice de Sausmarez, generally dating from the 1960s.

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Archive Sub-series

Lectures

1948-1967

Handwritten and typewritten complete and fragmentary lecture notes on the history of Western art from ancient Greece to British modernism, with aspects of art theory and the history of architecture. A...

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Interviews

1967-1969

Edited typewritten transcripts of conversations between Bridget Riley and Maurice de Sausmarez in January 1967 and January 1969.

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Archive File

Scripts 1-29

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains the following items: - 7 page transcript of a conversation with Mrs Margaret Wyke - 8 pages of transcripts of articles from the Trinidad Guardian, 1954 - 1958. - 7 transcripts o...

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Scripts 30-59

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains the following items: - 5 page transcript of a modern art catalogue containing works by Edna Manley. - 7 page transcript of notes from the book The Arts of an Island by Ivy Baxter...

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Script 1052

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1972

This file contains transcripts of audio recordings supplied by Edna Manley, containing interviews of Norman Manley by the poet Basil McFarlane.

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Hill: Poets on Poetry

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1963-1986

This file contains items relating to reviews and interviews by Hill. Includes: - an offprint of Hill's review article Robert Lowell: Contrasts and Repetitions, from Essays in Criticism, vol. 13 no. ...

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Hill Interview: WBUR

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1994

Papers relating to an interview with Hill conducted by George Preston for radio station WBUR for the programme Boston University's World of Ideas. Includes 1 typescript letter to Hill from George Pres...

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