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Total number of records: 34403

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives27541
Books and printed items3041
Textiles2597
Art items1039
Coins139
Objects41
Indexes1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12620
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5868
International Textile Collection2598
University Archive2565
Brotherton Collection2245
Student Newspapers1761
Cookery Collection1756
Liddle Collection1065
University Art Collection936
Medieval Manuscripts750

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
occupations1359
nature1048
culture844
animals770
agriculture732
buildings668
community life587
implements, utensils etc547
english language - dialects464
cooking, english411

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3369
United Kingdom674
Yorkshire382
Japan295
China285
Indonesia202
Leeds178
Essex165
Lancashire154
Lincolnshire148

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4440
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1408
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1123
Wright, John T555
Wright, Peter427
Marchini, Guido423
Sykes, Donald Richard340
Pesel, Louisa F325
Barry, Michael V (1935-)320
Brunk, Wille155

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From 100021
From 110038
From 1200126
From 130082
From 1400789
From 1500226
From 1600384
From 1700958
From 180014550
From 190014950
From 20002272

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Up to 199921759
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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/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:
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. 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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD10
15th-19th century
Deeds and copyhold admittances, mainly relating to Eggborough, Kelfield, Kellington, Sherwood and Whitley and the families of Awnby [or Anby], Girlington, Jackson, Laycock and Morritt 15th-19th centur...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1010
18th century-20th century
Including: farm account books of Isaac Denison of Dunkeswick and others 1809-1893 and diary of a farmer recording the weather, events on the farm, payments 1855-1893 (back of diary records accounts re...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD104
1572-1861
Includes inventory of Oswald Clark of Horton 16th century; enclosure award for Horton [Selside, Shaw Park and Lamb Pasture] 1791; steward's account book, Thomas Heselden for the Rev Dr Thomas Wilson o...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1054
c1970
With full references to relevant documents and printed sources including parish registers, wills, Wakefield court rolls, directories and Yorkshire fines.
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD106
17th century-18th century
Includes nine deeds relating to Lamb Close, Rawmarsh 1783-1798 and probate of will of Mary Beale of Rotherham, 23 Feb 1714/5 and will of Francis Denner of Rawmarsh, 27 Aug 1770
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD11
1720-1818
Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe