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Total number of records: 37

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Books and printed items34
Archives3

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Brotherton Collection3
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

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history37
biography30
education2
clothing and dress1
communication1
communism1
community life1
culture1
economics1
english language - dialects1

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Chaudon, L M (1737-1817)16
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)16
Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706)14
Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745)10
Gaudin, Alexis (1650-1708?)10
Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden, 1594-163210
Languet, Hubert, 1518-158110
Moreri, Louis, 1643-168010
Tricaud, Anthelme De (1671-1739)10
Bayle, Pierre4

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The ruins, or, A survey of the revolutions of empires, to which is added The law of nature /by M. Volney... translated from the French

Volney, C F comte (1757-1820); Volney, C F comte (1757-1820)

1853

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Pauli Orosii viri sane eruditi Historiarum liber, et tenebrarum faucibus in lucem aeditus, una cum indicibus tersissimis huic volumini, haud infrugaliter, adiectis

Orosius, Paulus; Mengin, Sebastien; Vidoué, Pierre (1543)

1524

Colophon: Excudebat Petrus Vidovaeus typis & caracteribus suis impendio honesti viri Ioannis Parui bibliopolae adscriptii, in praeclara Parrisiorum universitate, anno a Christo nato M.D.XXIIII. calend...

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To the Finland station : a study in the writing and acting of history

Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972)

1941

2nd English issue of 1st ed. (1st English issue in 1940)

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Books of notes taken by Maurice Warwick Beresford from lectures in history whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, 1938-1941

Beresford, Maurice (1920-2005)

1938-1941

(1) Bernard Lord Manning annd Zachary Nugent Brooke on early medieval European history: session 1938-1939. ii, 97 ff. (2) Michael Mo?ssey Postan on medieval English economic history: session 1938-39. ...

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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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