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Total number of records: 420

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items407
Archives13

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection128
English Literature119
Leeds Russian Archive67
Quaker Collection15
Herbert Read Collection8
Liddle Collection5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2
Ripon Cathedral2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
theater420
actors27
english drama27
théâtre24
sermons, english23
drama14
french drama9
latin drama, medieval and modern8
russian drama8
theater and society8

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PlaceCount
Soviet Union14
France12
Nigeria12
Russia (Federation)11
Russia6
England5
Africa4
South Africa3
Subsaharisches Afrika3
Afrika2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Inchbald, Mrs (1753-1821)32
Best, Thomas (1787-1865)23
Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)17
Moskovskii Khudozhestvennyi Akademicheskii Teatr13
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-172611
Baker, David Erskine (1730-1767)10
Collier, John Payne (1789-1883)10
Genest, John (1764-1839)10
Meskheteli, V E9
Shakespeare, William, 1564-16169

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 160025
From 170069
From 1800152
From 1900134
From 200023

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15991
Up to 169925
Up to 179967
Up to 1899152
Up to 1999128
Up to latest31

Archive Collection

African Theatre manuscripts and papers assembled by Martin Banham

Banham, Martin

1944-2015

Includes plays by African dramatists, BBC African theatre scripts, journals, reports, newpaper cuttings, academic papers and theatre programmes. These relate particularly to Nigeria. Contains some c...

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George Wilson Knight Archive

Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)

c.1916-1997

Comprises: (1) Knight's letters to: a) Francis Berry, 1931-1985; b) John Duncan Christie, 1962-1985; and c) John E. Van Domelen, especially concerning the latter's biography of Knight, 'The Tarza...

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Alec Baron, archive compiled by Baron relating to theatrical life in Leeds from the late 1920s to the 1950s, principally Leeds Unity Theatre, supplemented by material relating to Leeds Film Theatre and world cinema.

Baron, Alec (1913-1991)

1928-1991

Archive compiled by Alec Baron relating to theatrical life in Leeds from the late 1920s to the 1950s, principally Leeds Unity Theatre, supplemented by material relating to Leeds Film Theatre and world...

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JOHNSON, Louis (1920-1996)

[1943], 1954-1959, 2002

Intourist (Inturist) brochures (tourist routes, tour programmes, Black Sea, Caucasus, Minsk, Moscow, Urals) /1-9/. Brochures on Abastumani, Bakuriani, Batumi, Borzhomi, Dzhava, Gagra, Gudauta, Kobulet...

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ANDREEV, Leonid (1871-1919) (26) (WHITE)

[1909], 1997

Postcard of scene from L N Andreev "Dni nashei zhizni" production, Moscow, [1909] /1/. Programme and fliers for L N Andreev "He Who Gets Slapped" production, Culver City, USA, 1997 /2-4/.

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RUSSIAN BALLET (Nesta Macdonald)

1881-1994

Photocopies of: letters from S P Diagilev to family (6, 1881, 1885, nd) /1-6/; S P Diagilev song to words by A K Tolstoi, [1887] /7-8/; Perm' theatre posters, 1884-1885 /9-10/; Perm' official document...

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AUSTIN, SUMNER F

1914-1918

Typescript recollections (nd); 6 photographs, including three of theatre productions (1917, nd); Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (Oct 1977).

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BARTON, T ARTHUR

1914-1918

'Ruhleben Camp Magazine' Vol. II, No. 5 (Dec 1916); Photograph of theatre production (nd); 12 postcards (8 Dec 1914-2 Sep 1918).

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BURGOYNE, J E G (SANDY)

1914-1918

Christmas card (Dec 1914); 23 photographs, some autographed (1914-1917).

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EDEN, SIR TIMOTHY

1914-1918

2 photocopied sketchbooks (1914-1915); Photocopied correspondence and papers relating to attempts to secure the release of British Civil Prisoners of War interned at Ruhleben (1916-1917); Papers and p...

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Scrapbook containing prints of actors and actresses

c.1825-1875

Cuttings have been taken from a variety of unattributed sources and include some late-18th-century plates

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Scripts of the 'autodrammi', or community plays, of the Teatro Povero di Monticchiello, with introductions and summaries by Richard Andrews.

1980s-2007

Comprises 38 playscripts for the years 1967, 1969-74, 1976-77, 1979-86, 1988-2007. They fall into three groups: (a) 1967-88, scripts retyped in the 1980s; (b) 1989-1993, scripts produced by the Teatro...

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