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Total number of records: 426123

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items179930
Archives166785
Indexes39062
People and organisations33749
Textiles3404
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
art1594
popular music1565
letters1522

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England5808
Great Britain4974
France2263
Soviet Union1621
London, United Kingdom1347
Russia956
United Kingdom903
Rome825
Germany741
Greece734

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4597
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
National Women'S Aid Federation1769
Women'S Aid Federation England1697
Women'S Aid1697
Women'S Aid Federation of England1697
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
English National Opera North1496
Opera North1496
Great Britain1447

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800132012
From 1900276136
From 200017908

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 993
Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
Up to 8992
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Up to 17992
Up to 189996760
Up to 1999273878
Up to latest43132
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/DD100
[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
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
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/MS1002
20th century
Original is at Borthwick Institute, York
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1004
1945
Includes related letter, 1949
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1006
20th century