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Total number of records: 453

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items376
Archives76
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection171
Letters Database71
English Literature30
Cookery Collection22
Leeds Russian Archive20
Leeds Animation Workshop18
Quaker Collection13
Herbert Read Collection11
Liddle Collection5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2

Top 10: Subject

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women453
letter71
women's rights18
femmes16
home economics14
queens14
feminism13
conduct of life10
education7
families7

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Great Britain35
France15
England5
Europe4
Soviet Union4
Africa3
Developing Countries2
Egypt2
Germany2
London (England)2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sala, George Augustus53
Leeds Animation Workshop32
Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874)11
Strickland, Elizabeth11
Strickland, Elizabeth (1794-1875)11
More, Hannah (1745-1833)9
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)8
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)8
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)7
Chapone, Mrs Hester (1727-1801)6

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From 1800166
From 1900145
From 200022

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Up to 1899149
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Archive Collection

Little Owl Society, Leeds Archive

1879-2002

Comprises: (1) Journal, 2 vols, 1879-1937; (2) Album containing photographs of Little Owl members, 1879-1987; (3) Minute books, 21 vols, 1879-1999; (4) Treasurer's note books, reports and cashbook, 18...

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Leeds Animation Workshop Archive

1972 - 2020

The Leeds Animation Workshop (LAW) archive documents the history and workings of Britain’s first all-female led animation collective. The Workshop began in 1978 and is still active, working from a t...

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منحة السلوك على تحفة الملوك. minḥatu-sulūk ʿala tuḥfat almulūk

1187-1773

The volume discusses jurisprudence issues; marriage, divorce, women, robbery etcetera. Author: ابي محمد محمود ابن احمد العيني. ʾabī muḥammad maḥmūd ʾaḥmad alʿaī...

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Album of signatures presented to Lady Morris by members of Leeds University Ladies' Tea Club on the occasion of her retirement

Morris, Mary De Selincourt

1963

The volume is bound in green leather with the university crest embossed on it in gold. A letter from the donor, Peter Miller, to the Librarian, Mr R.P. Carr, dated 1st June 1990, is attached to the ba...

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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The position of the mother in the family in its legal and scientific aspects

Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth Morgan (1843-)

1884

"Read at the annual congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at Birmingham in 1884, and published by permission of the council" - Title p.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.1)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.2)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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