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Total number of records: 410

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items398
Archives12

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection104
Herbert Read Collection48
Leeds Russian Archive22
English Literature21
Ripon Cathedral13
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society12
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman2
Cookery Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
philosophy410
science25
ethics18
political science16
knowledge, theory of12
psychology11
natural history9
philosophy, ancient8
logic7
apologetics6

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China1
England1
Essen1
France1
Germany1
Leeds1
Leeds, United Kingdom1
London, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Voltaire (1694-1778)31
Brucker, Johann Jakob (1696-1770)13
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat Marquis De (1743-1794)13
Plato13
Arago, Dominique Francois Jean12
Arago, Dominique Francois Jean (1786-1853)12
Bacon, Francis, 1561-162612
Lamennais, Felicite Robert De (1782-1854)12
O'Connor, Arthur12
O'Connor, Arthur (1763-1852)12

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From 160032
From 1700118
From 1800148
From 190091
From 20003

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Up to 1899155
Up to 199992
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Archive Sub-collection

STOLOVICH Collection

1983-1991, 1995

A S Batiushkova (ed) "Estetika Immanuila Kanta i sovremennost': Sbornik statei po materialam V Kantovskikh chtenii, Kaliningrad-Svetlogorsk, 1990 god" ("Estetika", 11/1991) (Moscow, 1991) (includes ar...

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Papers of Professor John Wilfred Harvey on philosophy and religion

Harvey, John Wilfred (1889-1967)

19--

These papers were received in February 1975 from Mrs Sarah G Graham, a member of the Harvey family acting under the will. In the main, they consist of manuscripts (or typescripts with manuscript emend...

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Archive File

Mar, 1997, Essen

Oct 1996 - Mar 1997

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "Social Philosophical interpretations" for the conference: “Recent Trends in Holocaust research- Interdisciplinary discourse a...

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Interview, Diasporic Collection, Leeds, Mar, 2006

Feb 2006 - Mar 2006

Correspondence concerning an interview of Zygmunt Bauman for the 'Diasporic Collection', a collection of journals on 'Diasporic philosophies. The Interview took place at Bauman's home in Leeds on 28 M...

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Untitled manuscript on fiqh فقه

1058-1648

The volume discusses jurisprudence issues. It is a commentary on a work on fiqh (فقه). Some of the text is missing because of historic pest damage.

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Lecture notes on philosophy and economics taken by A.N. Shimmin at the University of Manchester

Shimmin, Arnold Nixon

1907-1913

Contains: [1] Philosophy; [2]-[4] History of ancient philosopy, I-III, 1908-9; [5] Economic history, II, 1910-11; [6] Industry and commerce; [7] Public finance, 1913. Inserted are further loose leaves...

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Untitled manuscript on fiqh فقه

17th century

The text discusses Islamic law. It is a commentary on a work on fiqh (فقه), zakah, kaffarah, jizyah, slavery (العتق) etc. There are parts missing from the beginning and end of the volume. D...

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Photographs of (Joseph) Alfred Novello as a Greek philosopher

c. 1880

Two photographs of (Joseph) Alfred Novello dressed as a Greek philosopher for a costume ball at Westwood House. Mounted on black card with a gold edge and the embossed logo of the photographic studio ...

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Philosophie du dix-huitième siècle (v.1)

La Harpe, Jean-François de (1739-1803)

1818

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Philosophie du dix-huitième siècle (v.2)

La Harpe, Jean-François de (1739-1803)

1818

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