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Total number of records: 212

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society54
University Archive42
Brotherton Collection38
Student Newspapers33
English Literature14
Business Archives13
Liddle Collection7
Leeds Russian Archive3
Womens Aid Federation of England Archive2
Art and Antique Market1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
lgbtq+33
gay29
homophobia26
letters26
lesbian24
textile industry11
business records10
discrimination7
english literature6
english poetry6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Scriven; Knaresborough; Yorkshire West Riding3
Yorkshire3
Ackworth; Yorkshire West Riding1
Bowes; Yorkshire North Riding1
Bradford; Yorkshire West Riding1
Buckden; Arncliffe; Yorkshire West Riding1
Calton; Kirkby Malham; Yorkshire West Riding1
Ethiopia1
Fermo, Italy1
Florence (Italy)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)2
Bomford, Philip2
Gott Family2
Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)2
National Women'S Aid Federation2
Pybus, Rodney (1938-)2
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)2
Stancliffe, Richard Schofield (1895-1959)2
Women'S Aid2
Women'S Aid Federation England2

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Up to 1999121
Up to latest23

Archive Sub-sub-collection

Letter Books

1904-1921

Out letters of Walter Middleton, 26 July 1904-3 Jan 1907 Out letters of Walter Middleton, 3 Jan 1907-28 Apr 1909 Out letters from Cecil Fane 23 Jun 1905-30 Sep 1916, from Francis G. Partridge 6 Oct ...

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Letter to the Vice Chancellor

9/8/2021

Joint letter from the University of Leeds UCU branch, University of Leeds LGBTQ+ staff network and LGBT+ society concerning systemic problems on Trans rights at the University

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LETTERS OF CLAPHAM FAMILY

1801-1869

Comprising letters of George Clapham 1801-1824 and John Clapham 1843-1869. Also a copy of Birstall tithe map, 1848, with part of schedule extracted by Barbara Clapham 1995. Also trancripts of the lett...

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Archive Sub-collection

Letters to Frank Beckwith

Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)

1926-1977

Letters to Frank Beckwith, from scholars, clergy, librarians and others, 1926-1977. This collection of more than 1200 in-letters reflects his many interests. Perhaps the most interesting group of let...

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Archive Sub-collection

Letters and papers of Professor Arthur Smithells, with some letters to his widow

Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)

1887-1955

This collection was presented to the Library by Professor P A Smithells of the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1975. He is Professor Arthur Smithells' son.

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Archive Collection

SLINGSBY FAMILY OF SCRIVEN LETTERS

16th century-20th century

Letters of the Slingsby family relating to their estates, legal affairs, personal matters and the civil war 16th-20th century, notably papers relating to the sale of delinquents' estates 1651-1652; ma...

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Archive Collection

SLINGSBY FAMILY OF SCRIVEN LETTERS

16th century-18th century

Including letters from Sir Henry Slingsby to his son at Cambridge University 1619-1621 and other letters 1591-1738; papers regarding the forest of Knaresborough early 17th century

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Archive Collection

PHOTOCOPIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO RELATIONS IN AMERICA

1847-1906

Also an additional deposit of 65 photocopy letters.

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Letters and papers of Professor Bonamy Dobrée

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

c.1918-c.1967

The papers of the late Professor Bonamy Dobrée, professor of English literature in the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955, were very kindly presented to the Library in the session 1974-5, by his d...

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LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIARIES OF ELIZABETH KITSON

1929-1932

Concerning archaeological digs in Kenya, Africa, and Palestine in which she took part relating the archaeologists' journeys to and from the sites at Lion Hill and Elmenteita in Kenya in 1929, and al...

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Letter to Joseph Bentley Leyland concerning the settlement of a bill. Addressed from 'Haworth'
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to John Brown

c.1848

Letter to John Brown, written in the year Brontë died, asking for a five pence measure of gin.

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Letter accompanied by a pen and ink sketch of a grave stone inscribed with the word 'Resurgam'; addressed from 'Haworth nr Bradford'.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

15 May 1842

Letter to Joseph Leyland commenting on the drawings Leyland has sent to the Committee appointed to erect a monument to the surgeon Thomas Andrews following his death, and inviting Leyland to a meeting...

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