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Total number of records: 16

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Leeds Russian Archive8
English Literature2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2
Brotherton Collection1
Business Archives1

Top 10: Subject

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community life2
culture2
education2
occupations2
play2
sports2
agriculture1
animals1
buildings1
clothing and dress1

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Ethiopia1
Florence (Italy)1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances1
Borthwick, Oliver (1873-1905)1
Cazenove, Charles F1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Faitlovitch, Jacques1
Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)1
Lejewski, Czeslaw (1913-2001)1
Lesniewski, Stanislaw (1886-1939)1
Maude, Aylmer (1858-1938)1
Perris, George Herbert (1866-1920)1

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From 18004
From 190012

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Up to latest3

Archive Sub-collection

RUSSKII V ANGLII / RUSSIAN IN BRITAIN

1936-1939, 2010

Digitised run on CD of: "Russkii v Anglii / Russian in Britain" (London), 1-87/88 (1936-1939).

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ZEMGOR Archive

1910s-1970s

Zemgor is a Russian emigre welfare organisation based in Paris. It originated in Russia during World War I, when two rural and urban local-government and public-service umbrella bodies, Zemskii soiuz ...

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Sound Recording, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

April 1961

[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwre...

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LOMONOSOV, Iurii Vladimirovich (LOMONOSSOFF, G V) (1876-1952)

1893-1953

Comprises the personal and professional papers, correspondence, and photographs of Iu V Lomonosov (G V Lomonossoff) (1876-1952), including extensive memoirs. A more detailed listing of the contents is...

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VII PHOTOGRAPHS

c.1880-1975

A collection of photographs, comprising 6 albums containing 340 monochrome prints, 2,638 other monochrome prints, 2,236 monochrome negatives (of which 12 are glass), 70 colour prints, 40 colour negati...

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Aylmer Maude correspondence and papers

Maude, Aylmer (1858-1938)

1901-1914

This handlist records over 200 letters and other documents mainly from Aylmer Maude (1858-1938), English translator, biographer and publicist of Tolstoy, to George Herbert Perris (1866-1920) and to Ch...

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The Ernest Bradbury Archive 1961

1961

GUIDE TO THE ERNEST BRADBURY ARCHIVE 1961 "Sir John has the right age and temperament. He can mirror the sentient loveliness of this rare music, yet keep it free from cloying sentiment; he traces it...

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Archive Judaica File

[Letter of support to the Jews in Ethiopia (Beta Israel), October/November 1906–April 1908, signed by 1 secular Jewish leader and 43 rabbis from all over Europe, Pittsburg, PA (USA), Palestine, and Egypt (original)].

Faïtlovitch, Jacques

[1906–1908]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant title: Igeret el Yehude Ḥabash. (אגרת אל יהודי חבש (אתיופיה. Approximate dates of production may be derived from 2 dates given in the ...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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SIMMONS, John Simon Gabriel (1915-2005)

1942-2006

See digital resource

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Pitkannen, Hannu

[1960s/early 1970s]

[Collector announcement, in which he provides background information on his fieldwork project, the locations visited and informants interviewed; he also comments on the quality of the recordings, the ...

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BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (1)

1920-1953

I A Bunin's so-called 'Paris Archive' was mostly created between the writer's emigration from Russia in 1920 and his death in Paris in 1953. Its main features are literary manuscripts, typescripts and...

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