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Total number of records: 520823

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Books and printed items238223
Archives187074
Indexes46460
People and organisations40451
Textiles3534
Coins2052
Art items1843
Objects1181

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Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection97985
Liddle Collection33460
English Literature33003
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society24077
Letters Database22964
Leeds Russian Archive16868
Herbert Read Collection16429
University Archive13799
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Quaker Collection11999

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SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185895
culture3280
occupations2592
english poetry2582
english language - dialects1988
society of friends1848
community life1845
agriculture1722
nature1689
jews1681

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Great Britain8519
England6043
France3580
Soviet Union1647
London, United Kingdom1351
Rome1205
Europe1114
Russia1011
United Kingdom908
Greece872

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4832
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Anonymous2647
Great Britain2377
Church of England2123
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1701
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
Opera North1496
English National Opera North1496
Catholic Church1440

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Archive Art Collection:
ART 090
1735-1873
Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1980/1
12th century - 21st century
The greater part of their accumulated archives was very generously deposited recently in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds by the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. It is hoped that by this ar...
Archive Collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1
17th-20th century
The Carlton Hill collection of archives contains records of meetings of the Society of Friends for the mid-part of the old West Riding of Yorkshire (now divided between West and North Yorkshire), and ...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD1
1282-1518
A collection of charters bound together in a case. They relate principally to lands, etc., in Acaster Malbis, but there is a deed relating to Chevermunt, and another to Bishopthorpe. Four of the chart...
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/MS1
1695-1724
Also includes a list of books, and a copy of the "Answer to Priestcraft" written by Thoresby's friend Richard Thornton (see Ducatus Leodiensis p536).
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...