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Total number of records: 60794

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items50973
Archives8059
Indexes849
Textiles589
Art items227
People and organisations70
Objects27

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection18159
English Literature10865
Quaker Collection3917
Leeds Russian Archive2025
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1735
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1420
Cookery Collection989
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture875
Ripon Cathedral873
Letters Database801

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
society of friends1064
sermons, english870
culture577
english poetry540
english language - dialects502
law reports, digests, etc429
english language413
cooking, english379
printing337
language and languages333

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain3513
England880
France663
London, United Kingdom359
London (England)334
Europe317
Rome269
Yorkshire (England)254
Scotland178
Greece169

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain1268
Church of England1222
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1105
Great Britain. Parliament871
Society of Friends602
Catholic Church471
Dryden, John (1631-1700)395
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)353
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)348
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)294

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From earliest3
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From 9003
From 100010
From 110020
From 120020
From 130020
From 1400347
From 1500406
From 16008280
From 170019323
From 180017975
From 190012823
From 2000445

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1499328
Up to 1599384
Up to 16998039
Up to 179918201
Up to 189918396
Up to 199913314
Up to latest1032
Prints
Archive Item

Prints

1914-1919

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Archive File

Print

1914-1918

Print & Negative of Gun Crew recieving Mayor' s Gold Medal for bringing down the first Zeppelin by gun fire, (L.12 ?).

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Archive File

Prints

1914-1918

Various well and lesser-known prints by Cuneo, Tennant, Bert Thomas, Davis Matania, Adrian Hill, Bairnsfather and Paul Nash.

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Archive File

Print

1914-1918

Large colour print of the defence of the [?] Bridge at Mons, by 1/R. Scots Fusiliers, painted by Gilbert Holiday. Per Col. M.S. Evetts.

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Prints
Archive Item

Prints

1914-1919

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Archive File

Prints

c.1950 - c.2017

Mainly articles from various periodicals with some cuttings from press and auction catalogues referencing different styles/techniques of printing/prints and history of their development. Includes ref...

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Archive Sub-series

Prints

1851

Engravings after a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke after a drawing by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Archive Sub-series

Prints

1782-1888

Engravings and lithographs belonging to members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family, including portraits of musicians, artists and writers, views of rural and urban scenes, playbills for theatrical pe...

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Archive File

Print

c. 1973 - 2011

Several print items collected by Dickerson, including corrected copy of Le Misanthrope, with handwritten corrections by Harrison dated July 1973; The Passion Part One (Rex Collings, London, 1980) wit...

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Archive Series

Print

1950-2022

The series contains printed books that Wilson wrote or edited.

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Archive File

Prints

c. 1830

Two engravings of Vincent Novello after a painted portrait by his son Edward Petre Novello.

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Archive Object File

print

c.1914-1918

1 Print of Ypres Cloth Hall on silk with a handmade Belgian lace border

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