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Total number of records: 38

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Brotherton Collection12
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive8
English Literature6
Leeds Poetry6
Herbert Read Collection4
Quaker Collection4
Leeds Russian Archive1

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adult education38
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education5
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fundamental education3
lectures3
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)4
Unesco3
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham Baron (1778-1868)2
Educational Settlements Association2
Binns, Henry Bryan1
Binns, Henry Bryan (1873-1923)1
Bown, Lalage J1
Brougham, Henry, Baron, 1778-18681
Cadbury, George1
Clark, Leonard1

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Archive Collection

Association of Tutors in Adult Education correspondence and papers

c.1920-1995

Includes: i) 17 box files of paper and correspondence of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education, ca.1920-1995, together with a modern index; ii) other miscellaneous papers; iii) Bulletin of the ...

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Experience in Poetry Anthology

1963

Duplicated typescript anthology titled 'Experience in Poetry' (October 1962-March 1963), comprising poems written and chosen by participants in an extension course in creative writing/poetry led by Jo...

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Readings, Courses, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1954-1965

Items relating to readings, lecturing and similar activities undertaken by Silkin in the 1950s and early 1960s. Includes Silkin's ms notes on running order for a reading at Epsom (20/3/54); ms note on...

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Minute book of the Holbeck and New Wortley Mechanics' Institution

1856-1870

Comprises a Minute book of Committee meetings, March 1856 to May 1870

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Unbound printed pamphlet "Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on 'Past, Present, and Future of the Working Classes, and how to better their condition'

1885

Contains "statement and criticism of the views held by famous political economists; to be given in the New Islington Hall, Ancoats, on Monday, Sept. 7th, and each Monday till Nov. 23rd, 1885, at 7.30"...

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Bound printed pamphlet "John Ruskin's plan for national education.”

No date [1907]

Subtitle “A lecture by M. E. Sadler [...], delivered in St. Margaret's Hall, Dunfermline on November 2, 1907 under the joint auspices of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and the School Board of the Bu...

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Dumfries Residency

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1990

This file contains items relating to Silkin's time as Writer in Residence for the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association, sponsored by the Scottish Arts Council. As well as working with members of the...

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Residencies, Readings, etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1990-1992

Mixed papers relating to poetry readings and residencies undertaken by Jon Silkin ca. 1990. Includes a programme for the Writer's Evening organised by the University of Dundee and the Scottish Arts Co...

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Numbered series of lectures belonging to the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, made for the use of various centres

c.1845

Comprises lectures numbers 1, 10, 14-16, 18, 20-21, 23-24,26-27, 29-30, 36, 39, 43-44, 49-51, 55-57, 60-65, 67, 69-72, 74, 80, 87, 89-90, 95, 100-103, and 2 unnumbered lectures

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Adult Education, University of Durham

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

October 1978 - April 1979

Papers relating to classes taught by Jon Silkin in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Durham. Includes photocopies of poems by Geoffrey Hill, accompanied by an ms letter from D...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

Clark, Leonard

21 September 1957 - 3 July 1961

6 ms letters and 3 ts letters from the poet Leonard Clark to Jon Silkin. The ts letters are on headed notepaper from the Ministry of Education and concern Silkin's involvement as a tutor in the Minist...

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Charles L. Rigg to Maurice de Sausmarez

1958-1959

Two typewritten letters from Charles L. Rigg, Warden of Grantley Hall Adult College, to Maurice de Sausmarez, asking de Sausmarez to give lectures on eighteenth-century Italian art as part of a short ...

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