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Archive File

The Ernest Bradbury Archive 1970

1970

GUIDE TO THE ERNES! BRADBURY ARCHIVE 1970 This year saw the deaths of Sir John Barbirolli and Ernest Bradbury’s eider brother, the tenor Stephen Manton.. both great personal losses. This was also ...

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HARTLEY THWAITE PAPERS

20th century

Consisting of notes, transcripts and photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to Yorkshire history, mainly to Abbotside and Wenleydale, and to the Thwaite(s), Metcalfe and other families ...

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Archive Collection

London Magazine Editions Archive

The London Magazine

1965-1979

The archive material contained within this collection relates to the publication of various volumes and dates from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, during the editorship of Alan Ross. The bulk of the ...

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Cecil Roth, Salonika papers

c.1944-1948

Arrangements were made in 1961 between the University of Leeds and Dr Cecil Roth (1899-1970) for the acquisition of his outstanding library of printed books and manuscripts, the purchase being facilit...

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ANDREEV, Leonid (1870-1919) (1)

1890-1976

Comprises Leonid Andreev's personal and literary papers, correspondence, and photographs, together with printed biographical and critical material; also, correspondence and other papers relating to An...

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Cyril Leslie Oakley correspondence and papers

Oakley, Cyril Leslie (1907-1975)

1922-c.1972

Cyril Leslie Oakley was born in 1907 and educated at Portsmouth and Westminster. He was a student of Harold Leigh-Sharpe’s at Chelsea Polytechnic (University of London) and co-authored a paper for P...

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Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth

Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)

c.1945-1981

1141 pamphlets held in 40 pamphlet boxes on 5 shelves. Sorted and boxed by broad subject. Possibly the bequest of Lord Boyle, ca.1981 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H....

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Association of Heads of Secondary Technical Schools, papers

1951-1973

Comprises the largely typescript minute books of the Association between 1951 and 1973, its typed annual conference proceedings between 1954 and 1973, and its printed bulletins for the years 1966-1973...

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Leeds Playhouse Archive

Leeds Playhouse; West Yorkshire Playhouse

1964-2022

The Leeds Playhouse archive is the collection of the Leeds Playhouse and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. It contains extensive documentation for staged plays, musicals and dance in particular. There i...

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Leeds University Union Committee Minute Books

1894-1986

[197 vols.] (see end for Index) UNION COMMITTEE/UNION COUNCIL: 1919 - 1986 Vol. 1: May 1919 - June 1921. Vol. 2: June 1921 - June 1923. Vol. 3: June 1923 - July 1926. Vol. 4: October 1926 - J...

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Workshop Theatre

1967-1996

BOX 1 1. ‘An Inspector Calls’. Working model, photographs and plans. Designer: Trevor Faulkner. 1987. BOX 2 1. ‘All My Sons’. Working model. Designer: Trevor Faulkner. BOX 3 1. ...

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Letters and papers of Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth

Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)

19--

EDWARD CHARLES GURNEY BOYLE, baron Boyle of Handsworth, PC, CH, was born in 1923 the eldest child of Sir Edward Boyle, 2nd bart. (1878-1945), a lawyer and prominent member of the Balkan Committee, and...

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