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Total number of records: 285325

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives133050
Books and printed items110326
Indexes33101
People and organisations4073
Textiles2224
Art items1427
Objects1087
Coins34

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection49111
Liddle Collection33227
English Literature17611
Letters Database16571
Leeds Russian Archive16030
Herbert Read Collection15554
University Archive12990
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10268
South Bank Show Production Archive9646

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185427
culture3269
occupations2584
english language - dialects1981
community life1839
nature1671
english poetry1604
popular music1563
art1395
agriculture1320

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England5044
Great Britain2699
Soviet Union1558
France1062
London, United Kingdom1061
Russia784
Germany540
United Kingdom486
Rome446
Iceland434

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3772
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
Opera North1496
English National Opera North1496
Shorter, Clement King1272
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1202
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1107
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)956
Gosse, Edmund857

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From 200016793

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Up to 1999244124
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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. 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:
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/MS1002
20th century
Original is at Borthwick Institute, York