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Total number of records: 334

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Textiles	128
Books and printed items	127
Archives	74
Objects	3
Art items	1
Indexes	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
International Textile Collection	128
Brotherton Collection	45
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman	20
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	10
Herbert Read Collection	9
English Literature	5
Leeds Russian Archive	3
Liddle Collection	3
Cookery Collection	2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	2

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
universities	15
literature, modern	7
culture	4
medicine	3
societies, medical	3
english language	2
english language - dialects	2
folklore	2
manuscripts, greek (papyri)	2
research	2

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Leeds	151
United Kingdom	128
England	24
Great Britain	4
Europe	3
Derby	1
Saffron Walden	1
Spondon	1
Stroud	1
United States	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
University of Leeds	334
University of Leeds. Library	12
Manby, J	11
University of Leeds. Department of English Literature	10
Courtaulds Ltd.	8
T. Cross & Co. Bolton	8
Dorothy Una Clough	7
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips	7
Dorothy Una Phillips	7
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)	7

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1800	7
From 1900	260
From 2000	17

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	2
Up to 1999	253
Up to latest	29

Archive Collection

Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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