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Total number of records: 240351

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items192855
Indexes24368
Archives19557
Textiles1472
Coins1038
Art items1033
Objects25

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection60045
English Literature24300
Letters Database21481
Herbert Read Collection13062
Leeds Russian Archive9287
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7708
Cookery Collection7400
Quaker Collection5873
Liddle Collection3420
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3132

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19183663
culture2043
occupations2029
english poetry1648
society of friends1449
jews1356
agriculture1356
english language - dialects1306
community life1268
nature1244

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain7027
England5093
France2995
Soviet Union1314
Rome1089
Russia838
Europe829
Greece758
Iceland655
Germany654

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3851
Great Britain2377
National Women'S Aid Federation1769
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1701
Women'S Aid1697
Women'S Aid Federation of England1697
Women'S Aid Federation England1697
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
Church of England1518
English National Opera North1496

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Earliest dateCount
From 1100155
From 120084
From 130048
From 1400395
From 15002537
From 160015184
From 170033520
From 180065112
From 1900117647
From 20005668

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Archive Collection

Ripon Cathedral (Dean and Chapter) Archive

Ripon Cathedral Dean and Chapter

12th century - 21st century

The greater part of their accumulated archives was very generously deposited recently in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds by the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. It is hoped that by this ar...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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Archive Object Collection

Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden

Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)

2000 BCE-1940

This collection includes jewellery, beads, ornaments, seals, coins, pottery, cuneiform tablets, facsimilie objects and glass slides. Many items are said to be from Ur, ancient Mesopotamian (now Iraq)...

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Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS: INQUISITIONS

1808-1811

Comprising a volume of copies of Inquisitions relating to the Roos, Salvain and Aldburgh families, (Edward I to Henry VI 1306-1443), original letters from Robert Surtees, pedigrees of Hilton, Conyer...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

nd [19th century]

Comprising a volume of pedigrees of Ashton, Sherwood, Rockley, Saville, Gascoigne and Blakeston some with branches. Index in volume, but the last 10 pedigrees are missing.

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

1810-1820

Comprising a volume of pedigrees with notes, including Ryther, Suger; Hoghton, Langton; Gerard, Butler, Clitheroe, Balderston, Gascoigne, Tate, Radcliffe, Fitzwilliam, with descent of the Constables ...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION : LETTERS AND PEDIGREES

1795-1825

Comprising a volume of letters, miscellanea and pedigrees, relating to the families of Smithson, Strangewayes, Sherwood, Cholmeley, Consett and Talbot of Gonvill's Hall. Indexed

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

1809-1816

Comprising a volume of pedigrees of the Radcliffe family. Some letters and documents are inserted.

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WILLIAM RADLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS FROM SURTEES

1809-1815

Comprising a volume of letters to Radcliffe from Surtees, with genealogical information of Salvin and Blakeston families and others

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS

1820-1825

Comprising a volume of letters to Radcliffe with genealogical notes relating to the Field, Wilmer, Eamonson, Idle, Suger and Rawson families. There is also a letter from the Rev Joseph Hunter

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS

1800-1827

Comprising a volume of letters and genealogical information on the Beaumont, Beckett, Barnard, Hornby, Ashton, Chadwick and Petre families

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