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Total number of records: 431410

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items210014
Archives142266
Indexes42803
People and organisations29993
Textiles2978
Art items1711
Objects1151
Coins489

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection81687
Liddle Collection33078
English Literature28359
Letters Database22935
Herbert Read Collection16283
Leeds Russian Archive15162
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society13692
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
University Archive11664
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10322

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185641
culture3228
occupations2590
english poetry2324
english language - dialects1986
community life1833
nature1687
agriculture1683
jews1562
art1547

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain6721
England5676
France3335
Soviet Union1475
London, United Kingdom1338
Rome1019
Europe975
United Kingdom899
Russia836
Greece822

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4060
Great Britain2056
Church of England1753
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533
Anonymous1453
Shorter, Clement King1412
Gosse, Edmund1327
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1169

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Earliest dateCount
From 170060801
From 1800126383
From 1900244089
From 2000122

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Latest dateCount
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Up to 1991
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Up to 179948031
Up to 1899109083
Up to 1999274226
Archive Art Collection:
ART 090
1735-1873
Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...
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:
YAS/MS1277/1-2
1960s-1970s
Card index of approximately 1000 individual photographic recordings of stone heads, mainly from the West Riding of Yorkshire. Each recording generally consists of the event date (eg of finding or reco...
Archive Collection:
FAN/1 in 4
c1986 - 1998
The collection contains organisational papers including journals, minute books, correspondence, training information, legal guidelines and associated material. Files also include extensive reference m...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1952/1
1865-1999
Comprises: 1) Minutes of the various council, open, special and annual general meetings of the Association, 1865-1997, with printed notices of these forthcoming meetings pasted into the volumes at the...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1956/1
1875-1947
Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...
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:
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (1)
1928-1969
Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...
Archive Object Collection:
OBJ 1
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)...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Bennett (1)
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD285/10
1795
1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax