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Total number of records: 487187
Count of Record type
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 85469 |
| Liddle Collection | 33459 |
| English Literature | 30520 |
| Letters Database | 22940 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 16866 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 16429 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 13879 |
| University Archive | 13799 |
| Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive | 12770 |
| Janina and Zygmunt Bauman | 11884 |
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Top 10: Place
Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 4819 |
| Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927) | 4527 |
| Great Britain | 2069 |
| National Women'S Aid Federation | 1769 |
| Church of England | 1754 |
| Women'S Aid Federation of England | 1697 |
| Women'S Aid | 1697 |
| Women'S Aid Federation England | 1697 |
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 1534 |
| Opera North | 1496 |
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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers
Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)
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...
Ralph Abercrombie correspondence
Abercrombie Family
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...
Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden
Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)
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)...
Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.
Bennett, Alan
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...
Lease for 20 years
1795
1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax
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...
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
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...
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
INCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP [CARDINAL] WOLSEY BY A HAMILTON THOMPSON,
20th century
Original is at Borthwick Institute, York