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Total number of records: 13879

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	11827
Books and printed items	2019
Art items	32
Objects	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
heraldry	57
antiquities	50
auction catalogs	44
travel	44
poor laws	42
poor	40
education	39
charity laws and legislation	38
english literature	29
nobility	26

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	332
England	277
Yorkshire (England)	124
York (England)	46
Yorkshire	31
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding	25
Leeds (England)	22
York; Yorkshire	19
Scarborough (England)	18
Wales	17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Church of England	44
York Minster	39
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor	38
Great Britain	36
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)	36
Great Britain. Parliament	32
Cole, John (1792-1848)	29
Dodsworth, Roger (1585-1654)	22
Great Britain. Record Commission	21
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)	20

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1700	6105
From 1800	5541
From 1900	2119
From 2000	85

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1799	5548
Up to 1899	5601
Up to 1999	2543
Up to latest	157

Archive Collection:
YAS/MD476 (Add1)

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...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1277/1-2

Stone heads index

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:
YAS/MS1773/add1

FURTHER NOTES ON THE ELLA, USFLETE AND HALDENBY FAMILIES, ALSO NEW HISTORY OF SWANLAND 2006 (PHOTOCOPY)

2009

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1785/add1

FURTHER PAPERS OF THE MANBY FAMILY INCLUDES INVITATIONS TO A CONFERENCE IN FRANCE 1934 AND LEAFLET RELATING TO FRENCH COATS OF ARMS

20th century

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1816/add1

PAPERS RELATING TO REGENERATING LANDMARK HERITAGE MILLS, CONFERENCE HELD AT MANNINGHAM MILLS, BRADFORD

2010

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1853/add1

KIRK DEIGHTON: A HISTORY IN PICTURES - VERSION 2

2009

Archive Collection:
YAS/MD285/10

Lease for 20 years

1795

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

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS10

RALPH THORESBY'S CORRESPONDENCE, VOLUME 5

1716-1723

Microfilm copy available.

Archive Collection:
YAS/DD100

PAPERS RELATING TO THE HALL FAMILY OF DUNNINGTON, LILLING AND LEVENTHORPE

[20th century]

Mainly extracts from registers and pedigrees etc; includes copy discharge and further mortgage on property of Joseph Fisher in Cumberworth, Soyland, Lighthazles, Lockwood, Almondbury and Crosland 1729...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS100

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

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1000

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...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1001

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