Comprises Anthony Heywood's collection of postcards, documents, posters, calendars, timetables, tickets, maps, and his own offprints concerning the economic history of the Soviet Union/Russia, especially public transport, but also including reproductions of paintings and portraits
Anthony Heywood collection
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 1074
- Dates of Creation
- 1918-2000
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- Russian English Estonian French Latvian Polish Swedish
- Physical Description
- 300 ff., 69 vols, printed and photographs
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Anthony John Heywood is a specialist in 20th-century Russian and Soviet history and an expert on the history of Russian and Soviet railways
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of Anthony Heywood, August 1988, March 1990, 1991, August-October 1992, October and November 1993, March 1994, April 1999, February 2001; Elena Kudriakova, June 1993
Note
In Russian, English, Estonian, French, Latvian, Polish, Swedish
Other Finding Aids
A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm