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Total number of records: 30

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives16
Books and printed items11
Objects3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection22
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection16
Herbert Read Collection4
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
time30
design9
railway transport7
architecture4
jewelry4
american poetry2
english poetry2
leisure2
accounts payable and receivable1
business management1

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PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy3
Berlin1
Copenhagen1
Denmark1
Germany1
London, United Kingdom1
Rome (Italy)1
Stockholm1
Sweden1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Duffy, Carol Ann2
Bergson, Henri (1859-1941)1
Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987)1
Centre For Metropolitan Studies, Berlin1
Corbin, Henry1
Danish Cultural Institute1
Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (1479-1552)1
Hallock-Greenewalt, Mary1
Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957)1
Livesey, John1

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From 15001
From 17002
From 180016
From 190010
From 20001

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Up to 15991
Up to 189918
Up to 199910
Up to latest1

Archive Series

NOVELLO, (Joseph) Alfred

1824-1896

Financial documents relating to Novello & Co. and (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investments in shipping and railways, business contracts, designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat, sketches and desi...

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Archive File

Mar, 1998, Copenhagen

Feb 1997 - Mar 1998

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "Time and Class" with reference to the 'welfare state' on 29 April 1998 for the Sociology Department at the Danish Cultural Inst...

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Apr, 1999, Stockholm

May 1998 - Apr 1999

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a seminar on the topic of "Time" as part of a seminar series in April 1999.

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May, 2007, Berlin

Apr 2007 - May 2007

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture and contribution to a panel discussion on "The City and the other" at the "Time/Space dynamics in urban settings". (Centre for Metropol...

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Archive File

Jewellery

1898

Vincent Novello's gold pocket watch.

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Archive File

Designs

1862-1883

Designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat alongside a number of sketches and designs for a 24 hour clock face by (Joseph) Alfred Novello dating from around 1883. He argued that the increase in r...

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Archive Object Item

Pocket watch

c. 1800

A Barraud gold pocket watch that belonged to Vincent Novello, in a cotton cover with a handwritten Italian inscription which gives the date 2 May 1898 and records that the external case was missing. T...

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Pocket watch

c. 1800

Gold pocket watch with an engraved and enamelled face and an engraved back. The winding key is attached with string. It was packed in a paper banking envelope, inscribed on the reverse with 'M.S. Nove...

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Gold watch chain

c. 1830

A gold watch chain with engraved gem seal having belonged to Charles Cowden Clarke. The gem is engraved with the Latin 'Placidam sub Libertate quietem' which translates as: 'By the sword we seek peace...

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Sketches towards a design for a 24 hour clock face

c. 1883

Six sketches on one sheet of folded paper towards a design for a 24 hour clock face, by (Joseph) Alfred Novello.

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Circular on the 24 hour clock

Aug 1862

Printed circular by (Joseph) Alfred Novello titled '24 o'clock; a distinct name for each hour of the day', arguing for benefits for the railways and postal service and reduction in printing costs. The...

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