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Total number of records: 107922

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items70335
Archives30200
Indexes6993
Art items328
Objects60
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection107922
English Literature18229
Herbert Read Collection17244
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7171
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5301
Leeds Poetry4282
Letters Database3784
Incunabula1353
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1258
Rudolf Laban Collections1060

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1951
romanies1216
letters1153
art1086
english literature771
letter663
poets, english654
sermons, english595
english drama564
art, modern544

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2608
France373
England371
Sheffield (England)317
Europe298
Yorkshire (England)215
Spain181
Genoa, Italy178
Rome174
London, United Kingdom170

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Anonymous2650
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1378
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1114
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)947
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)752
Stoker, Bram708
Wodehouse, Sir Philip631
Sala, George Augustus506
Great Britain448
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum442

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Archive Collection

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

1928-1969

Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...

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Archive Collection

Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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Archive Print Collection

Great Britain C16/17 (Brotherton Collection)

Works printed in Great Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, nearly all in English or Latin. The earliest is a law book, the Natura breuium, printed in 1518 - one of a number of law books in the col...

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Archive Collection

Michael Millgate correspondence

Millgate, Professor Michael (1929-); Thwaite, Dr Ann (1932-); Thwaite, Anthony (1930-)

1986-2011

Comprises mainly Professor Michael Millgate's correspondence with Dr. Ann Thwaite. Also includes some correspondence with Dr. Anthony Thwaite.

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Archive Print Collection

1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)

1890s

Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...

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Archive Print Collection

Archive Print Collection

Archive Print Collection

Edward Clodd (Brotherton Collection)

Works by Edward Clodd (1840-1930), including anthropology, mythology, evolution and religion. Clodd, a banker by profession, had a far-ranging influence through his wide circle of intellectual friends...

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Archive Print Collection

Archive Print Collection

Archive Print Collection

Gosse (Brotherton Collection)

1829-2014

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Archive Print Collection

Maarten Maartens (Brotherton Collection)

Maartens, Maarten (1858-1915)

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