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Total number of records: 8923

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items4683
Archives4178
Indexes38
Objects23
Art items1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19182503
world war, 1939-1945360
photographs234
military art and science170
naval art and science113
letters112
soldiers66
soldiers' monuments66
diaries56
english wit and humor, pictorial54

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain225
Germany36
France33
Soviet Union30
Europe28
United States24
Belgium19
Australia12
Turkey11
Al Kut (Iraq)10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain. Army228
Liddle, Peter H (1934-)137
Great Britain135
Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission114
Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain)106
Liddle, Peter97
Great Britain. Royal Navy81
Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1871-1949)67
Bairnsfather, Bruce (1887-1959)56
Great Britain. Royal Air Force51

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17005
From 1800190
From 19008018
From 2000115

Count of Latest date

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Up to 17991
Up to 189911
Up to 19997941
Up to latest375

Archive File

Collection of Information

October 1915

Collection of Information regarding the Enemy, October 1915. Donor: E. Bowlby (GS).

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Archive File

Collection Research

1914-1918

13 miscellaneous documents (notes on the collection)

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Archive Print Item

Collected poems & translations

Hill, Brian (1896-1979)

1974

Includes translations from the French.

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Temporary

Miscellaneous postcard collection.

c.1914-1920

Item 18. Postcards - a) 7 of Allied troops mainly at Anzac Cove; b) Postcards of Courtney's Post, Mule Gully, Walkers Ridge, Wellington Terrace and the "Poppy Patch - all at Anzac; d) Howitzer at Cape...

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Liddle Collection postcards

1990s

Cards created for The Friends of the Liddle Collection using images from First World War photographs in the Collection.

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Archive Collection

Alec Buckels Collection

Buckels, Alec; Alston, Lucy (1910-1996); Buckels, Lucy (1881-1967); Alston, William (1880-1958)

1903-1973

Material relating to Alec Buckels’ biography and career. Many of the letters were written to Lucy Alston (1910-1996). Lucy is often referred to as Mi-lady and sometimes as Lady Alston and Lady Al...

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Jane Hamlyn Collection

1847-1997

The collection contains the personal records of Jane Hamlyn. There is a substantial amount of correspondence with male friends and some miscellaneous correspondence. It contains some letters from Ja...

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Pilgrimage : collection of poems

[199-?]

Catalogued from cover.

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Temporary

Photograph collection / G. Bishop.

c. 1915

Item 1. 7 photographs (1915).

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Temporary

Photograph collection / R. Howard.

c. 1914-1918

Item 10. Photographs - a) 10 of ships in Alexandria and Lemnos; b) 9 of Hospitals and casualties; c) 2 of trenches; d) 2 of a pontoon and reinforcements (donor R. Howard).

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Margaret L. More Collection

1907-1949

The diaries of Margaret Louise More (1888-1952), a British housewife. The diaries date between 1920 and 1949, and are in the format of purpose built diaires or notebooks used as diaries. Margaret wr...

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