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Total number of records: 1489

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Books and printed items1214
Archives260
Indexes11
Art items4

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1489
English Literature300
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections221
Leeds Poetry120
Herbert Read Collection29
Rudolf Laban Collections27
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse13
Medieval Manuscripts7
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection7
Letters Database4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)38
socialism33
correspondence28
sermons, english23
popish plot, 167822
world war, 1914-191818
anarchism14
english drama14
operas12
books reviews10

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Great Britain88
London (England)8
Hull (England)6
Belgium4
Germany4
England3
France3
Bath, United Kingdom2
London, United Kingdom2
Roos (England)2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)73
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)55
Great Britain53
Glover, Stephen (1813-1870)51
Nelson, S (1800-1862)45
Great Britain. Parliament39
Browne, Gordon38
Browne, Gordon (1858-1932)38
Browne, Hablot Knight38
Browne, Hablot Knight (1815-1882)38

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Floral border (fol. 83r)
Archive Piece

Floral border (fol. 83r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

4-line initial 'G' in gold, on red/blue background, infilled with an aroid flower. Floral border composed of hairline tendrils connecting trefoils, golden pine cones, small green leaves, a large aroid...

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Drink the Mercury'

1977

Includes poster, teachers' notes, copy of 'Pollution's Child' Sunday Times article about Minamata, schedule of bookings, newspaper articles about pollution incidents, scripts, booklet 'Radioisotopes' ...

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McCannell (Ursula), “Gypsies”.

c. 1941

Watercolour drawing. 24x15 cm. [1941?] Unsigned. Mother standing holding child, older child standing.

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Opinion

1631

Of Robert Barwicke re tithe hay or other tithes due to Sir Timothy and Mr Matthew Hutton under their lease to Mr Blackburne nd c 1631 endorsed: Counciller Barwicks opinion abt Tythes many yeare since

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Bond in £140

17 May 1634

James Mylner of Muker yeoman & James Milner his son also of Muker yeoman Francis Beresford of Richmond gent Recites feoffment of this date

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Geneva Bible (Romans)

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.2000

This file contains multiple photocopies from the Geneva Bible (1560), Paul's Epistle to the Roman's chapter XIII:1-14; a photocopy from from the Geneva Bible of the Book of Daniel, produced as a class...

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Gurney: Radio Version (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1985

Photocopied typescript of 'Gurney' ([3], 95 pp) with Jon Silkin's ms notes and revisions in green pen. This script is accompanied by ms notes on the play in the hands of Silkin and one other, possibly...

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Guiness, Bryan

29 December 1961

1 letter to Thomas Blackburn from Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, lawyer, poet, novelist and heir to the Guinness brewing business.

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"Gypsies.Wensleydale"

Frederick Lawson

c.1920 - c.1950

Pen and ink drawing of Gypsy Traveller wagon.Undated.

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ECG Letter to Catherine Winkworth

25 Aug 1850

Substantial letter. Begins "My dearest Katie, If I don't write now I shall never." Describes a visit to James and Kay Shuttleworth, and ECG's first meeting with Charlotte Bronte. Much of the letter d...

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