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Total number of records: 33115

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Record typeCount
Archives26372
Books and printed items3007
Textiles2572
Art items1036
Coins82
Objects41
Indexes1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12620
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5868
International Textile Collection2573
University Archive2565
Student Newspapers1761
Cookery Collection1749
Brotherton Collection1356
Liddle Collection1065
University Art Collection933
South Bank Show Production Archive668

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
occupations1359
nature1048
culture844
agriculture732
animals700
buildings668
community life587
implements, utensils etc547
english language - dialects464
cooking, english411

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3368
United Kingdom674
Yorkshire376
Japan295
China285
Indonesia202
Leeds178
Essex165
Lancashire154
Lincolnshire148

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4440
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1408
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1123
Wright, John T555
Wright, Peter427
Marchini, Guido423
Sykes, Donald Richard340
Pesel, Louisa F325
Barry, Michael V (1935-)320
Brunk, Wille155

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Earliest dateCount
From 1600384
From 1700958
From 180014550
From 190014950
From 20002272

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Up to 1699232
Up to 1799791
Up to 18997555
Up to 199921715
Up to latest2814
Archive Collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1
17th-20th century
The Carlton Hill collection of archives contains records of meetings of the Society of Friends for the mid-part of the old West Riding of Yorkshire (now divided between West and North Yorkshire), and ...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD476 (Add1)
19th-20th century
Includes family papers relating to the Crossley family including correspondence, valuations, insurance, wills etc. Papers relating to the Wheelwright Family. Papers relating to Mearclough Mill. Pap...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1973/1
1862-1866
Papers relating to the fund raised in Leeds for relief of distress in the Lancashire cotton districts caused by the American civil war In the autumn of 1862, the American Civil War began to affect t...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1990/1
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1010
18th century-20th century
Including: farm account books of Isaac Denison of Dunkeswick and others 1809-1893 and diary of a farmer recording the weather, events on the farm, payments 1855-1893 (back of diary records accounts re...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1054
c1970
With full references to relevant documents and printed sources including parish registers, wills, Wakefield court rolls, directories and Yorkshire fines.
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD106
17th century-18th century
Includes nine deeds relating to Lamb Close, Rawmarsh 1783-1798 and probate of will of Mary Beale of Rotherham, 23 Feb 1714/5 and will of Francis Denner of Rawmarsh, 27 Aug 1770
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD11
1720-1818
Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD110
1793-1812
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1104
20th century
Files, presscuttings, journal reviews, articles and private study notes relating to Europe, Africa, Far East, India, Anglo-Saxon Britain, pottery, querns, vikings
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD112
1739-1949
Includes: registers 1749-1831 and 1833-1949; accounts 1739-1810, 1837-1874; housekeepers' accounts 1770-1771, 1816-1817; accounts and vouchers for the building of the new schoolhouse 1739; examiners' ...