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Total number of records: 85

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection60
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
English Literature9
Business Archives3
Leeds Russian Archive3
Liddle Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters85
romanies40
journalism10
socialism9
socialism and religion9
socialism, christian9
business records2
diaries2
english fiction2
english literature2

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Birmingham1
Colney Heath1
England1
Hertfordshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Alfred Richard Orage2
Dawson, Thomas2
George, Henry2
Orage, A R (1873-1934)2
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)2
Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869)2
Andreas (1868-1935)1
Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances1
Blythe, Ronald (1922-)1
Borthwick, Oliver (1873-1905)1

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From 17009
From 180025
From 190051

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Up to 17991
Up to 189915
Up to 199966
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Archive File

International Social Service

1968-1996

Includes some minutes of annual general meetings.

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Miscellaneous letters, mainly domestic and social, and papers of the Marshall family of Leeds and Coniston, 1830-1884

Marshall Family

1830-1844

Writers include Jane Marshall, Jane Dorothea Marshall, Mary Anne Marshall, Richard M. Milner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Leslie Stephen, Mary de Vere and Thomas Woolner

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Papers and letters in connection with the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey, 1941-1943, by John Harry Jones

Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)

1940-1943

One of the most significant domestic developments during the Second World War was the emergence of comprehensive social planning. It had its roots in various political, sociological, architectural and...

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Christian Socialist Pamphlets

1895-1944

Collection of pamphlets relating to the League of the Kingdom of God, the Church Socialist League, and the wider Christian Socialist movement. There are a number of pamphlets relating to the Guild of ...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Margaret Hunt

c. 2 Nov 1870

'My dear Mrs Hunt/I'm afraid I must admit complete abrogation of all my duties as a social being of the festive order...'

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Isaac Holden and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Isaac Holden and Sons Limited; Holden, Sir Isaac (1807-1897)

c.1830-1910

Summary of Contents by Box No. I. Papers referring to patents and other business affairs. 1830s-50s. II. Journals and notebooks. 1844-88. III. Newspaper cuttings, parliamentary bills, addr...

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Diaries

1930-1954

3 diaries comprising converted notebooks dated 1930, 1932-34, 1934-35. Also one desk diary from 1954. The 1930s diaries are the record of Watson as a young man in London, starting a career in journal...

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Archive Collection

New Statesman, associated correspondence and literary papers 1914-1919 and 1960-1983

New Statesman

1914-1983

The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...

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HAIN, JOHN

1917-1919

School of cookery notebook (1917); 13 photographs (including Soltau POW canteen) (Dec 1917, 1918); Discharge certificate (15 Jan 1919); Discharge certificate scroll (15 Jan 1919); Memorial card for PA...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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Archive Series

League of the Kingdom of God Quarterly Magazine

Jan 1926 - Jul 1929

'The Organ of the League of the Kingdom of God', issues 1 to 15.

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Father Thomas Dawson Correspondence

Dawson, Thomas

1856-1937

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