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Brotherton Collection515
Leeds Russian Archive72
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Janina and Zygmunt Bauman8
Liddle Collection2

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Macdonald, James Ramsay (1866-1937)16
Hyndman, H M (1842-1921)15
Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950)15
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Rossiiska︠I︡A So︠T︡Sial-Demokraticheska︠I︡A Rabocha︠I︡A Parti︠I︡A (BolʹShevikov)14

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Archive Collection

Alfred R. Orage Archive

Orage, A R (1873-1934)

1881-1997

The collection includes notebooks, press cuttings and articles. There are various letters to and from A. R. Orage and Jessie Orage (née Dwight). These are from before and after their marriage in 19...

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No 8, Co-operative Union leaflet
Archive Collection

Mattison Collection

Mattison, Alfred (1868-1944)

1790s-1963

The Alf Mattison collection is the archive of Leeds socialist and local historian Alf Mattison (1868-1944). His major achievement was to amass a collection documenting the development of British soci...

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Archive Series

Additional lecture notes

1931

These items are part of two separate accruals from donors in Australia and the U.S.A.

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Archive Series

Additional archives relating to Orage

Orage, A R (1873-1934); Welch, Louise

1931

This series is a separate accrual from Patty Llosa, (née Patricia Welch). Her mother, Louise Welch, studied with Orage in 1920s and wrote 'Orage with Gurdjieff in America' (1982).

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Archive Sub-series

Various : c.1972-1999

c.1972-c.1995

Mainly typescript papers by Zygmunt Bauman likely written during his period of teaching at the University of Leeds. Titles include: "The individual dismembered"; "The party in the system management ...

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Correspondence : 1987-1990

c.1972-c.1990

Folders of correspondence mainly covering period c.1987-c.1990 in English unless otherwise specified. Some include copies of ZB’s letters. Files include correspondence from/re: 1) Various inc Pol...

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Archive Sub-series

Box (B) Reference, research, reviews and papers [c.1969-1998]

c.1963-c.1998

Reference, research and papers as found together. Mainly covers period 1969-1998. Box 1: 1969-1971 Box 2: 1970-1980 Box 3: 1992-1998

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Archive File

PARSONS, Mrs OLIVE N

1914-1918

This section contains a transcript (Tape No. 1200) of an interview with Olive Parsons regarding her life as a young Socialist in London. Parsons was born into a Jewish family in Britain in 1892. She l...

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Archive File

Papers generated by Orage

1925-1929

The file contains one of Orage's notebooks dated 1929, a manuscript of 'The Art of thinking' and a list of books recommended by Orage. There are some photocopies of Orage's notebooks containing his '...

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Archive File

Workshop Jun 1995, London School of Economics, London

Jun 1995

Programme concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a workshop titled "Can there be a positive nationalism?" on 24 June 1995 at the "Socialism in an age of Global Capitalism: An International Seminar In...

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Conference, Jun 1995, London School of Economics, London

Aug 1994-Jun 1995

Correspondence and programme concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a workshop titled "Can there be a positive nationalism?" on 24 June 1995 at the"Socialism in an age of Global Capitalism" conferenc...

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Archive File

(H1) Reference materials and papers : 2009-2011

c.2009-c.2011

Mainly loose manuscript notes and unattributed typescript papers/ fragments [likely by Zygmunt Bauman]. Some with titles, including: "On glocalisation";"On human tsumami"; "A natural history of evil"...

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