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Total number of records: 29555

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society9534
Brotherton Collection4363
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive3669
Quaker Collection2148
Art and Antique Market1737
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1730
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1503
Business Archives1385
English Literature1116
Joseph Wood Collections600

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters641
letter539
letter writing507
poets, english440
pre-raphaelites440
family245
drawing243
hymns, english211
genealogy207
poetry192

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy274
London, United Kingdom274
Nice, France32
Italy29
Yorkshire24
Beckenham, United Kingdom21
Rome, Italy21
Florence, Italy19
Vienna, Austria18
Verona (Italy)17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)1279
Sala, George Augustus427
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)227
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)137
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)98
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria66
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)46
Cowden Clarke, Charles34
Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)29
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29

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From 17008377
From 180021138
From 19004
From 200032

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Up to 1991
Up to 5994
Up to 10992
Up to 17997038
Up to 189922510

Archive Collection

Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive

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...

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Lease for 20 years

1795

1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax

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RALPH THORESBY'S CORRESPONDENCE, VOLUME 5

1716-1723

Microfilm copy available.

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

1800-1819

Comprising several pedigrees of the Beaumont family, tricks and quarterings of arms with a number of original letters to Radcliffe from R H and J Beaumont of Whitley Hall, Kirkheaton

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George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire

c1810-1885

The original watercolours for the images published as engravings in 'The Costume of Yorkshire' 1814 in one volume, a volume of engravings from the first edition and an edition of 'The Costume of Yorks...

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COPIES OF SATIRICAL POEMS BY GEORGE PLAXTON, RECTOR OF BARWICK IN ELMET

Early 18th century

Also includes pamphlets, 18th century, correspondence, and transcripts 20th century

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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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PRINT OF A TRACING OF THE HEADINGLEY TITHE MAP AND TRANSCRIPT OF THE AWARD

(1846)

Transcript of the award omitts acreages and tithes paid

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JOHN WARBURTON'S COLLECTION FOR THE HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE VOL.9 [PHOTOCOPY]

Early 18th century

Containing a history of Hatfield by Abraham de la Pryme and an account of the churches of Hatfield, Fishlake, and Barnby Dun by James Torre, with John Speed's map of Yorkshire, North and East Ridings...

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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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