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Archives225
Indexes5
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection2162
English Literature339
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections225
Leeds Poetry98
Herbert Read Collection36
Incunabula31
Rudolf Laban Collections25
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse8
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection8
Letters Database6

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socialism71
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world war, 1914-191828
oratorios26
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popish plot, 167822
english drama21
sermons, english19

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Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)80
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Glover, Stephen (1813-1870)61
Great Britain. Parliament58
Independent Labour Party (Great Britain)52
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)51
Perry, Thomas Aloysius (1820-1907)51
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)51
Worrall, A51
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)49

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Archive Print Item

Great Bardfield summer exhibition : July 8-17, 1955

Great Bardfield (England)

[1955]

Catalogue of an exhibition held in the artists' houses in Great Bardfield, Essex, 1955. Cover title.

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The Betrayal of Christ (fol. 19r)
Archive Piece

The Betrayal of Christ (fol. 19r)

[ca. 1490]

The full-page miniature depicts the scene of the betrayal and arrest of Christ. Judas Iscariot leans forward to kiss Christ, while a large group of soldiers surround them. St. Peter has just cut off M...

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Archive Item

'Madame Clara Novello's Farewell', Illustrated London News

14 Jun 1860

'Madame Clara Novello's Farewell' reprinted from the Illustrated London News, 14 June 1860. The article notes Clara Novello's forthcoming participation in the Worcester Festival and Norwich Festival a...

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'Riddle-Acrostic' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

Jul 1893

'Riddle-Acrostic' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, written in Baden-Baden in Germany in July 1893.

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Memoranda for Mozart's Life

c. 1829

One small notebook with yellow marbled covers containing notes on persons to apply to for anecdotes and works to consult for Vincent Novello's planned biography of Mozart, which remained unwritten. Or...

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Rowland, (John) "Our Friend the Dalmatian." and Saunders, (James) "The Dalmatian and all about it." (Transcriptions)

c.1933

Typescript extracts from two books that reference a connection with the Dalmatian dog breed and Gypsies/Travellers from Europe. 1) "Our Friend the Dalmatian," (Our Friend the Dog series edited by ...

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King Henry the Eighth. III. ii. 131 - III. ii. 240

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (221)

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Archive File

War Literature: Miscellaneous (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1983-1986

Miscellaneous collection of items relating to Silkin's interest in war literature, originally held together in an envelope labelled '1st World War & War - Misc.' Includes a photocopy of Richard Tillin...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

5 September 1961

1 ms letter from Marion Labistour, secretary of the English Society at the University of Hull, to Jon Silkin.

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