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Total number of records: 425995

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items179843
Archives166769
Indexes39062
People and organisations33723
Textiles3405
Art items1757
Objects1172
Coins260

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection73488
Liddle Collection33454
English Literature23886
Letters Database22490
Leeds Russian Archive16840
Herbert Read Collection16407
University Archive13792
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10357

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185893
culture3280
occupations2590
english poetry2108
english language - dialects1988
community life1844
nature1683
art1581
popular music1565
letters1522

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England5804
Great Britain4974
France2237
Soviet Union1621
London, United Kingdom1347
Russia956
United Kingdom904
Rome825
Germany741
Greece734

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4595
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
National Women'S Aid Federation1757
Women'S Aid Federation England1685
Women'S Aid1685
Women'S Aid Federation of England1685
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
English National Opera North1496
Opera North1496
Great Britain1447

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800131977
From 1900276064
From 200017887

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
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Up to 189996731
Up to 1999273811
Up to latest43102
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:
YAS/MS1853/add1
2009
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:
MS Dep. 1988/1
1912-2001
Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1990/1
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...