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Total number of records: 8792

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Indexes595
Textiles8
Objects3
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Brotherton Collection1974
Quaker Collection854
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman688
English Literature557
Liddle Collection405
University Archive402
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society333
Ripon Cathedral245
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections231
Leeds Russian Archive144

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world war, 1914-1918121
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operas47
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french drama39

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Society of Friends363
Great Britain. Parliament181
Great Britain173
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)145
Fox, George (1624-1691)144
Andermahr, Heinz110
Ennen, Edith110
Flink, Klaus110
Landschaftsverband Rheinland. Amt Fur Rheinische Landeskunde110
Lvr-Institut Fur Landeskunde Und Regionalgeschichte110

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Archive Item

Letter from: Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, MP, 9 Wilbraham Place, London SW1; 17th March 1968

17/03/1968

Possibility of HDW speaking to a Commons sub-committee. MS

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Letter from: Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, MP, 9 Wilbraham Place, London SW1; 17th April 1970

17/04/1970

Possible referendum on British entry into the Common Market. MS 2ff.

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Calendar: September (fol. 9v)
Archive Piece

Calendar: September (fol. 9v)

[ca.1480-1500]

The miniature at the foot of the page shows a man sowing seeds in a field, while another man holds a donkey carrying a sack. A hill and a fence can be seen in the background. The border is decorated w...

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Archive File

Cutting from the Times literary supplement

1906

8 May 1906, about Shakespeare first folios

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Archive File

'Who is the poor maniac whose wildy fixt eyes seems heart overchrg'd to express?'

Late 18th century

The poem is about Mary, a maid, at an inn. It is written in the Gothic style.

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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Scudamore Lazenby, Leeds

7 Nov 1709

Of the arms of his family.

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The Association of Nurse Administrators Conference, 1976

2 Apr 1976

Copy of the agenda for the conference, held at the University of Surrey, 2 April 1976. With manuscript annotations by Kathleen Raven.

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Archive File

Happy Jack photographs

1984

Only negatives.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of fine, plain woven fabric with one selvedge. The fragment has irregular areas of of darker brown staining across it. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-N...

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