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Total number of records: 301

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Books and printed items238
Archives63

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Liddle Collection135
Brotherton Collection25
Quaker Collection12
Leeds Russian Archive5
English Literature3

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world war, 1914-1918301
photographs31
letters21
conscientious objectors9
soldiers9
postcards6
propaganda, anti-german5
communism4
pangermanism4
european war, 1914-19183

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Germany11
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Europe4
Soviet Union4
United States3
Belgium2
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Russia2
Accrington (England)1
Al Kut (Iraq)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Archer, William (1856-1924)24
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen, 1842-192711
Great Britain. Army8
Sanders, William Stephen (1871-)8
Great Britain7
White, J William (1850-1916)7
Archer, William4
Bryce, James Bryce Viscount (1838-1922)4
Great Britain. National War Aims Committee4
Hard, William (1878-1962)4

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From 180032
From 1900263
From 20005

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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM E

1914-1919

Pencil sketch of mosque (nd); 2 watercolour sketches (nd); German postcard (nd); Typescript verse 'The Motor-Lorry Man' by AL Jones (1918); Photograph of Princess Mary (nd); Overseas service stripes (...

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BRAY, WILLIAM

1916-1919

3 diaries (1916-1919).

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CURRAH, WILLIAM

1914-1919

Calendar diary (1915); Soldier's Small Book (1915); Manuscript diary in shorthand (12 Jan 1915-19 Nov 1918); Typescript of diary, 12 Jan 1915-19 Nov 1918 [1980]; Field Medical Card (30 Aug 1918); Out-...

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HAIRSINE, WILLIAM

1913-1919

5 photograph albums (1913-1917, nd); Press cutting 'Taffy, A Most Remarkable 'Oss' (18 May 1934); Typescript poem 'Past, Present & P'raps' (1971); 3 press cuttings, one with photocopy (25 Aug 1978, 11...

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VARLEY, WILLIAM

1915-1918

Manuscript letter to Ada Varley from M Pealing (24 Nov 1916); 3 manuscript letters to his sister, Ada (9 Mar 1918, nd); Combined leave and railway ticket (29 May-5 June 1916); Field Service postcard f...

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MOORES, WILLIAM

1917-1919

10 postcards, some with messages or captions (1917-1919).

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TOWNSEND, WILLIAM

1914-1916

2 letters from Townsend to his niece, Dorothy Mullinder (1914, 1916).

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BLAND, CHARLES WILLIAM

1917-1919

Separation Allowance and Allotment of Pay form (9 Feb 1917); Letter to Mrs Bland from Captain Borthwick, relating to her missing husband (23 Apr 1918); 5 letters, four with envelopes, from CW Bland to...

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BROOKLING, HENRY WILLIAM

1914-1919

Letter from King George V on HW Brookling's release from German captivity (1918); Manuscript record of service, 4 Aug 1914-2 Dec 1918 (11 Mar 1919); Extract relating to HW Brookling fom book 'The 18th...

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DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS

1914-1920

Officer's record of services book (8 June 1919); Imperial Camel Corps Christmas card (Dec 1918); Imperial Camel Corps sports programme (23-24 Dec 1918); Imperial Camel Corps Old Comrades' Association ...

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BRIDSON, WILLIAM R

1915-1919

Diary 'Territorials Indian Handbook' (1915); 2 manuscript diaries, with additional diary notes (25 Oct 1916-14 Apr 1919); Typescript summary of diaries (nd).

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CORMACK, WILLIAM SLOAN

1914-1944

6 photocopied letters (June-July 1918); Photocopy of Home Office Scheme employment certificate (nd); Photocopy of concert programmes (15 Feb 1919, 15 Mar 1919); Photocopy of Fancy Dress Ball programme...

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