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Total number of records: 227

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society168
Business Archives22
English Literature9
Brotherton Collection9
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Leeds General Cemetery1
Art and Antique Market1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
textile industry24
business records23
letters16
commercial correspondence7
english poetry5
english literature5
music2
scrapbooks2
international relations1
medieval history1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding7
Yorkshire3
Ossett; Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
Knottingley; Pontefract; Yorkshire West Riding1
Kirkby Ravensworth; Yorkshire North Riding1
Kilnsey; Conistone; Burnsall; Yorkshire West Riding1
Holderness Wapentake; Yorkshire East Riding1
Keighley; Yorkshire West Riding1
London, United Kingdom1
Kippax; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Nussey, Ellen (1817-1897)1
Oakley, Cyril Leslie (1907-1975)1
New Statesman1
Medvei, Dr Victor Cornelius (1905-2000)1
Maude, Aylmer (1858-1938)1
Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)1
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde1
Pilleau, Alice Caroline (1847-1935)1
Perris, George Herbert (1866-1920)1
Penguin Books1

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From 170058
From 180090
From 190079

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17996
Up to 189957
Up to 1999164

Archive Collection

PAPERS RELATING TO ELLAND AND HALIFAX, MOSTLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CROSSLEY AND WHEELWRIGHT FAMILIES

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...

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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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PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PAPERS OF KENT FAMILY OF TATEFIELD HALL

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...

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DEEDS MAINLY RELATING TO ASENBY

1720-1818

Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe

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COLLECTION OF PRESS CUTTINGS, AND ARTICLES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS COLLECTED BY B G CAMPBELL

20th century

Files, presscuttings, journal reviews, articles and private study notes relating to Europe, Africa, Far East, India, Anglo-Saxon Britain, pottery, querns, vikings

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PAPERS RELATING TO LEDSHAM SCHOOL (LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' FOUNDATION)

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' ...

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PEDIGREES AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES COMPILED BY MEMBERS OF THE YAS FAMILY HISTORY SECTION

20th century

Including pedigrees of Bentley, Dinsdale, Palmer. A list of Jackson entries in the Terrington N. Yorkshire parish registers (18-19th century), a list of early settlers in Whatcom County [Washington, U...

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PHOTOCOPIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO RELATIONS IN AMERICA

1847-1906

Also an additional deposit of 65 photocopy letters.

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MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND PAPERS

1739-1814

Comprising petition from the citizens of Halifax against the repeal of the act establishing a court of requests for the collection of small debts n.d. [1776]; deeds of George Wood and John Broadhead r...

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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES RELATING TO THE ATKINSON FAMILY BY W J ATKINSON

1790-1960

Contains certificates, copies of testamentary documents, correspondence, pedigrees, research notes, newspaper cuttings, apprenticeship indenture, cashbook of Henry Atkinson of Salford and scrapbook

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