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Total number of records: 312

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature19
Quaker Collection3
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Business Archives1
Cookery Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters13
education6
teachers6
english poetry5
geology5
mysticism4
cabala4
theology4
universities and colleges3
family archives3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
York1
Thirsk1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Woledge, Geoffrey (1901-1988)4
Mceachran, Frank (1900-1975)3
Morpurgo, J E3
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
Gough, Charles Edward (1875-1957)2
Holmes, John Wendell (1910-1988)2
Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)2
Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)2
Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)2
Migne, Jacques Paul2

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From 180055
From 1900207

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Archive Collection

General Manuscripts, Special Collections

1661-1975

Includes letters, notebooks and research papers, circulars and transcripts. Files may move to more appropriate collection as contextual details are uncovered.

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T.W.H. Crosland Collection

Crosland, T W H (1865-1924)

19 June 1873 - 28 Feb 1977

Collection contains manuscript drafts of T.W.H. Crosland's published poems, along with unpublished material, and research for W. Sorley Brown's biography of 'The life and genius of T.W.H. Crosland’ ...

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Papers of John Harry Jones on the coal industry in Britain and overseas in the mid-1930s

Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)

1930s

Most of these papers were discovered in a cupboard in the School of Economic Studies in December 1976 and were presented to the Library through the good offices of Professor J. R. Crossley; a smaller ...

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Archive Series

Inventory of the contents of Migne's Patrologia latina, by Alexander Hamilton Thompson

Thompson, Alexander Hamilton (1873-1952)

c.1940

Inventory of the contents of Migne's Patrologia latina, in the form of a list of authors and works together with an alphabetical index

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Letter from G. R. Wakefield and pamphlet 'St William's College York'

c.1927

Comprises a letter from G. R. Wakefield to Professor A. Hamilton Thompson with an accompanying pamphlet 'St. William's College, York, and Convocation'

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Archive Series

Manuscript Notes

c.1940

Manuscript notes on Christ Church Canterbury MS Y.8.28 [E. 18]. Item catalogued July 2017.

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Archive Series

Thirsk archives

c.1900

Includes pages from 'Yorkshire Notes and Queries' and newspaper cuttings relating to Thirsk. Possibly belonging to Prof. A. Hamilton-Thompson.

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Postcard

4 Sep 1939

Postcard featuring the Loch Ness monster addressed to Prof Hamilton Thompson by one of his children.

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