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Total number of records: 187099

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection26089
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society21919
University Archive13756
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884
Liddle Collection11853
South Bank Show Production Archive9646
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9593
English Literature7280
Business Archives6537

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture3258
occupations2581
english language - dialects1987
community life1840
nature1661
letters1568
popular music1555
letter writing1470
agriculture1233
animals1190

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3670
London, United Kingdom1345
Yorkshire434
Leeds, United Kingdom326
Genoa, Italy292
Lincolnshire170
Essex167
Lancashire158
Somerset149
Norfolk148

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1532
English National Opera North1496
Opera North1496
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)822
National Women'S Aid Federation682
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)675
Women'S Aid610
Women'S Aid Federation England610

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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...
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...