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Total number of records: 23

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Books and printed items17
Archives6

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Brotherton Collection12
English Literature12
Liddle Collection3

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english literature23
world war, 1914-19188
letters3
war and literature3
english poetry2
war poetry, english2
books and reading1
english drama1
european war, 1914-19181
greek literature1

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Greece1
Lancaster (England)1

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Bergonzi, Bernard (1929-)3
Fussell, Paul (1924-2012)2
Raleigh, Sir Walter Alexander (1861-1922)2
Roucoux, Michel2
Times Newspapers Limited2
Allen, Grant1
Blake, William, 1757-18271
Colvin, Sidney (1845-1927)1
Cook, Sir Edward Tyas (1857-1919)1
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)1

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Up to 199921

Archive Collection

New Statesman, associated correspondence and literary papers 1914-1919 and 1960-1983

New Statesman

1914-1983

The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...

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Nash's and Pall Mall magazine

Nov. 1914 Formed by the union of: Nash's magazine; and: Pall Mall magazine.

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The Times broadsheets for soldiers and sailors (series 3)

Raleigh, Sir Walter Alexander (1861-1922); Times Newspapers Limited

[1915]

"Published to meet an urgent demand from soldiers in the trenches and men with the fleet for the best literature in a portable form... The passages were selected by Sir Walter Raleigh.". Each issue ...

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The Times broadsheets for soldiers and sailors (series 4)

Raleigh, Sir Walter Alexander (1861-1922); Times Newspapers Limited

[1915]

"Published to meet an urgent demand from soldiers in the trenches and men with the fleet for the best literature in a portable form... The passages were selected by Sir Walter Raleigh.". Each issue ...

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The Book of the Microcosm

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

[1927]

"... A few of the poems, articles, and pictures that [appeared in] 'The Microcosm'," a literary journal sold on behalf of North Country charities, privately printed, Leeds? 1914-25 (earlier numbers is...

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Literary recreations

Cook, Sir Edward Tyas (1857-1919)

1918

The art of biography (printed in the "National review, April 1914)"--Some remarks on Ruskin's style.--The art of indexing.--Fifty years of a literary magazine (written for Jubilee number of the Cornhi...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter, a play, a story and a volume of press notices about her.

Shorter, Dora Sigerson (1866-1918)

1895-1914

Comprises: 1) Typescript of a play 'The Other Woman's Child', in two acts, 36 ff., typed in black ink, with underlining in red, on sheets interleaved with thick paper, bound in blue cloth; 2) Carbon c...

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Robert Louis Stevenson, correspondence and literary manuscripts

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

1898-1923

Comprises: (1) 1 box containing 2 vols and 1 other separate volume of copies of letters by Katharine D. Osborne concerning Robert Louis Stevenson, 1922-1923; (2) Correspondence between Sidney Colvin, ...

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T.J. Wise, proof copies of pamphlets

Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)

1909-1917

Nine separate titles, as follows, printed for Wise in very limited editions, some annotated by Wise and all of them having proof corrections, often in the hand of Edmund Gosse: (1) "Letters from Alger...

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Letters and papers of Professor Bonamy Dobrée

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

c.1918-c.1967

The papers of the late Professor Bonamy Dobrée, professor of English literature in the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955, were very kindly presented to the Library in the session 1974-5, by his d...

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The Great War and modern memory

Fussell, Paul (1924-2012)

1975

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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