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Total number of records: 1104

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Record typeCount
Books and printed items1072
Archives32

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection363
Leeds Russian Archive190
Brotherton Collection143
English Literature52
Herbert Read Collection41
Cookery Collection25
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections25
Quaker Collection7
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive6
Leeds Poetry2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1939-19451104
world war, 1914-191854
jews23
romanies17
english poetry16
soldiers15
guerre mondiale, 1939-194511
holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)11
generals8
leaflets dropped from aircraft8

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union49
Great Britain46
France22
Germany21
United States12
Poland10
Europe8
Normandy (France)8
Channel Islands6
Russia6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain38
Great Britain. Ministry of Information33
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)29
Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1871-1949)22
Left Book Club (London, England)19
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)16
Great Britain. Royal Air Force14
Great Britain. Army13
Auckland, R G (1920-)12
Great Britain. Air Ministry10

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From 18003
From 1900976
From 200059

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1999917
Up to latest121

Archive Collection

Arthur Stanley Turberville notebooks and papers

Turberville, Arthur Stanley (1888-1945)

c.1907-1945

Comprises: (1)-(4) Draft of 'Medieval Heresy and the Inquisition' [published 1920]; (5)-(8) Notes on the Inquisition; (9)-(11) Draft of 'The Spanish Inquisition' [published 1932]; (12)-(16) Notes on B...

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Ernest Gordon Cox Archive

Cox, Ernest Gordon

1886-1999

Comprises: Section A, Biographical, including shorter autobiographical and biographical accounts, significant material relating to his career, honours, and birthday celebrations, and photographs taken...

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ANDREEV, Leonid (1871-1919) (11) (MORGAN)

[1907]-1914, 1997

Postcards of scenes from Nezlobin Theatre production of L N Andreev "Anfisa", Moscow, [1910] /1-5/. Photocopy of programme of 16 January 1914 performance by the S I Zimin company of A S Glukhovtsev's ...

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RUSSIAN AND RUSSIAN-RELATED POSTERS & CALENDARS

1942-2012

Reproductions of works of art, theatre posters etc by: N Kochergin, A Komarov, Kukryniksy, Iu Mogilevskii, Iu Pimenov, N Radlov, V Ryndin, E Tsvik, unknown artist, G Iasinskii /1q-11q/. "Mir iskusst...

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Papers and correspondence of Edmund Clifton Stoner, 1899-1968

Stoner, Edmund Clifton (1899-1968)

1909-1969

During his retirement Stoner organised and selected his papers, intending to write an autobiography. The material thus consists of Stoner's own compilation of biographical material, with many of his o...

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PEARCE, Brian (-2008)

1984

Brian Pearce "1941 and All that" /1/. Letter from Brian Pearce to Richard Davies /2/.

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BOWES, DOROTHY (NÉE FEARNLEY)

1914-1918, 1939-1945

Manuscript notes relating to the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) (nd); Press cutting 'Stranded Soldier's at Shipley Station' (nd); Manuscript letter from Princess Victoria, written on her beh...

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Doman, Kathleen May 'Rosie'

Doman, Kathleen May (1895-1988)

1900-1991

The first accrual consists of: 1) Miscellaneous cuttings and leaflets relating to cookery many from 'The Bystander' (22 Dec 1900, 9 Mar 1901, 18 Dec 1917-14 May 1919, 16 Apr 1921, 12 Aug 1930, nd);...

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DUCHENNE, I VIVIENNE

1904-1918, 1939-1945

Typescript notes relating to CEE Duchenne (husband) during the First and Second World Wars (nd); Manuscript recollections of the First and Second World Wars (1 May 1997, nd); 3 diaries (1939, 1940, 19...

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GIBSON, MARGARET ANNABELLA CAMPBELL

1917-1920

Press cutting from 'The Times' reporting the death of Florence Nightingale (15 Aug 1910); Photograph and scrap album (1917-1919); 2 photographs (nd); Ration book (20 Oct 1918); Manuscript notes and ve...

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GREEN, ADA

1914-1922, 1939-1954

Wallet containing certificate of employment and anti-gas instructions (nd); Postcard from F Green (son), a POW (Prisoner of War) at Dülmen in in Germany (6 Jan 1918); Soldier's Service and Pay Book (...

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