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| Collection group | Count |
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| University Archive | 1611 |
| Student Newspapers | 981 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 463 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 300 |
| Liddle Collection | 63 |
| Brotherton Collection | 57 |
| Business Archives | 32 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 30 |
| English Literature | 22 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 11 |
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| Place | Count |
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| Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding | 8 |
| Ganton; Yorkshire East Riding | 5 |
| Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding | 5 |
| Kirkby Malzeard; Yorkshire West Riding | 3 |
| Aysgarth; Yorkshire North Riding | 3 |
| Scriven; Knaresborough; Yorkshire West Riding | 3 |
| Burley In Wharfedale; Otley; Yorkshire West Riding | 2 |
| Burstwick; Yorkshire East Riding | 2 |
| Eshton; Gargrave; Yorkshire West Riding | 2 |
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Ripon Cathedral (Dean and Chapter) Archive
Ripon Cathedral Dean and Chapter
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...
Carlton Hill Collection
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 ...
PAPERS RELATING TO ELLAND AND HALIFAX, MOSTLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CROSSLEY AND WHEELWRIGHT FAMILIES
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...
Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive
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...
Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers
Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)
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...
DEEDS AND COPYHOLD ADMITTANCES
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...
PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PAPERS OF KENT FAMILY OF TATEFIELD HALL
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...
DEEDS RELATING TO HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE AND TO CATTLE GATES ON THE MOOR
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...
NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE CRAWSHAW FAMILY OF DEWSBURY AREA, YORK AREA, WOOLLEY, ROYSTON, SHEFFIELD, HALIFAX, NORTH LINCOLSHIRE AND HULL AREAS
c1970
With full references to relevant documents and printed sources including parish registers, wills, Wakefield court rolls, directories and Yorkshire fines.
DEEDS RELATING MAINLY TO RAWMARSH AND ROTHERHAM
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
PHOTOCOPIES OF REPORTS BY THE NORTH YORKSHIRE AND CLEVELAND VERNACULAR BUILDINGS STUDY GROUP
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group
1969-1974
DEEDS MAINLY RELATING TO ASENBY
1720-1818
Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe
DEEDS, RENTALS, SURVEYS AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO CATTAL, COWTHORPE, SELBY, TOCKWITH AND WILSTROP
11th century-18th century
Including deeds relating to Tockwith windmill 1641-1683 and survey of manor of Wilsthorpe taken by Soloman Swale of Wetherby 1618
COLLECTION OF PRESS CUTTINGS, AND ARTICLES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS COLLECTED BY B G CAMPBELL
20th century
Files, presscuttings, journal reviews, articles and private study notes relating to Europe, Africa, Far East, India, Anglo-Saxon Britain, pottery, querns, vikings
DEEDS AND PAPERS RELATING TO COWTHORPE, TOCKWITH, WILSTROP AND MOOR MONKTON
(13th century)-18th century
Including copy documents relating to Tockwith windmill 1227 and inquisition post mortem of Guy de Wilstrop 1520
PAPERS RELATING TO LEDSHAM SCHOOL (LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' FOUNDATION)
1739-1949
Includes: registers 1749-1831 and 1833-1949; accounts 1739-1810, 1837-1874; housekeepers' accounts 1770-1771, 1816-1817; accounts and vouchers for the building of the new schoolhouse 1739; examiners' ...
PEDIGREES AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES COMPILED BY MEMBERS OF THE YAS FAMILY HISTORY SECTION
20th century
Including pedigrees of Bentley, Dinsdale, Palmer. A list of Jackson entries in the Terrington N. Yorkshire parish registers (18-19th century), a list of early settlers in Whatcom County [Washington, U...
STAVELEY OF NORTH STAINLEY COLLECTION
1558-1832
Relating to Austhorpe, Bingley, Carlton Miniott, Copt Hewick, Darley, Grewelthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard, Littlethorpe, Masham, Mickley, Ripon (hospital of St John the Baptist), North Stainley, Staveley, S...
PHOTOCOPIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO RELATIONS IN AMERICA
1847-1906
Also an additional deposit of 65 photocopy letters.
MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND PAPERS
1739-1814
Comprising petition from the citizens of Halifax against the repeal of the act establishing a court of requests for the collection of small debts n.d. [1776]; deeds of George Wood and John Broadhead r...
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES RELATING TO THE ATKINSON FAMILY BY W J ATKINSON
1790-1960
Contains certificates, copies of testamentary documents, correspondence, pedigrees, research notes, newspaper cuttings, apprenticeship indenture, cashbook of Henry Atkinson of Salford and scrapbook
PAPERS OF W HORNSBY, SALTBURN, INCLUDING LETTERS AND PAMPHLETS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOPICS
1902-1937
Including letters received from F Elgee, W Farrer, FG Simpson, F Villey and R E M Wheeler
DEEDS RELATING TO HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE
17th century-19th century
Relating to Heseldon or Heseltine family of Brackenbottom, Horton-in-Ribblesdale and Sothwell, Nottinghamshire
PAPERS OF EDITH MARY WALKER (1903-1969)
c1800-1969
Including diaries 1915-1969, and notes and correspondence on historical, archaeological and personal matters, the YAS and the Roman Antiquities Committee. Also includes several 19th century documents
DEEDS RELATING TO HALIFAX
18th century-20th century
Including 'Mile Cross' belonging to the Gledhill and Holgate families
PAPERS OF CHARLES TRAVIS CLAY
Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)
1642-1976
Consists mainly of photocopies and correspondence exchanged with historical scholars including P Aheir, W Paley Baildon, W Farrer, LC Loyd, WE Preston, FM Stenton and A Hamilton Thompson. Topics inclu...
CLARKE THORNHILL FAMILY OF FIXBY COLLECTION
13th century-20th century
DD12/I - Calverley papers, 13th-18th century Relate mainly to estates of the Calverley and Blackett families in Calverley, Eccleshill, Farsley, Otley and Pudsey. Includes deeds 13th-18th century, som...
DEEDS
1606-1813
Relating to properties at Hambleton and Mount St John, near Thirsk, Feliskirk and Marderby, Thirlby, Ravensthorpe (par. Feliskirk), Boltby and Hesketh, Cold Kirby, Aiscough, Hudswell, Brompton-on-Swal...
HARTLEY THWAITE PAPERS
20th century
Consisting of notes, transcripts and photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to Yorkshire history, mainly to Abbotside and Wenleydale, and to the Thwaite(s), Metcalfe and other families ...
ARCHAEOLOGIAL PAPERS OF F G SIMPSON
1902-1921
Comprising notes and plan of the Leeds area by F Villy nd, traced plan of Castley and Wescoehill 1921, annotated Ordnance Survey maps for Rigton and Wothersome 1902, Alwoodley, Bramham and Newton Kym...
SKIPTON CASTLE COLLECTION
13th century-20th century
Papers of the Clifford family, Earls of Cumberland and of their successors, Earls of Thanet relating to the honour of Skipton and their Craven estates 13th-20th century. Includes deeds and settlement...
SKIPTON CASTLE COLLECTION (ADDITIONAL DEPOSIT)
17th-19th century
Includes: Court books for Skipton manor 1847-1882, honour 1825-1882 and manors of Eshton 1741-1764, Gargrave 1761, Silsden 1752-1882, Stirton with Thorlby 1753-1882 Field books for Skipton 1757, Sils...
LECTURES ON HALIFAX BY J LISTER, NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS AND OTHER PAPERS
1776-1940
Scrapbooks of presscuttings are of general Yorkshire interest, but notably relating to the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and Roman Antiquities Committee 1906-1939
MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS
13th century-19th century
Relating to Brearley, Crosland, Dewsbury, Golcar, Huddersfield, Ossett, Quarmby, Skircoat and Stainland with wills and other papers, mainly relating to the West Riding 13th-19th century; includes deed...
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES
1970-1981
Including Beever, Burhouse, Busfield, Clapham, Ferrand, Grace, Hardwicke, Hobson, Jubb, Longhorn, Oates, Paley, Richmond, Stevenson and Talbot, notes relating to Hainsworth, Johnson, Pickles, Tebbet ...
MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND WILLS
1797-1889
Relating to Askrigg, Barnsley, Brampton, Dale Town in the parish of Hawnby, Darfield, Doncaster, Guiseley, Kellington, Keyston [Huntingdonshire], Kirkheaton, Lavenham [Suffolk], Leeds, Little Mitton [...
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: YORKSHIRE COLLECTIONS
1827
Comprising a small book lettered "Radcliffe, Yorkshire Collections". It contains a number of extracts from Dodsworth's mss, monumental inscriptions in Featherstone Church and extracts from the pari...
PHOTOCOPY OF THE HAWKESWORTH FAMILY BOOK CONTAINING COPIES OF LETTERS AND EARLY DEEDS OF THE HAWKESWORTHS
(13th century-17th century)
Relating to Hawksworth, Menston and Mitton and also to Carlton, Guiseley, Rawdon, Yeadon and elsewhere
PAPERS OF MARY CHITTY (NEE KITSON CLARK)
Kitson Clark, Mary (1905-2005)
1920-1960
Comprising correspondence, notes, photographs and other papers mainly relating to archaeological topics, notably to the activities of the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological So...
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES RELATING TO THE MAWER FAMILY COMPILED BY H MAWER
20th century
Covers 16th-20th century
YORKSHIRE DEEDS
1614-1797
Relating to Armley, Barnsley, Beeston, Bramley, Churwell, Clayton [parish of Bradford], Halifax and Wakefield
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: FAMILY EVIDENCES
1807-1825
Comprising a book lettered "Radcliffe's family evidences". Principal contents include the following extracts, evidences at Kirklees Hall made in 1809, evidences of Joseph Armytage of Outwood Lodge, ...
YORKSHIRE VERNACULAR BUILDINGS STUDY GROUP REPORTS
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group
1980s-2021
Comprises detailed recordings of individual buildings and their architectural features.
PHOTOGRAPHS AND NOTES BY SIDNEY JACKSON RELATING TO CELTIC AND OTHER STONE HEADS
1960-1979
The collection contains well over 1000 identified photographs of stone heads, mainly from the West Riding. There are also numberous examples drawn from all over the country, some belonging to muneum c...
DEEDS RELATING TO LIVERSEDGE AND THE WALKER FAMILY
14th century-19th century
Also relating to Aysgarth, Barnsley, Birstall, Normanton, Normanton [Rutland], Wakefield, Woodkirk. Liversedge 1307-1800 MD128/1 to /95 Birstall 1654-1783 MD128/96 to /103
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES
1979-1980
Related to families including Alty, Atkinson, Bateson, Bayne, Bonwell, Copley, Fish, Hall, Ireland, Iveson, Leach, Lumb, Nicholson, Oates, Owston, Palmes, Pollard, Pontefract, Scarr, Scott, Stead, T...
GENEALOGICAL NOTES RELATING TO THE STOTT FAMILY OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE BY B TOOLE-STOTT
1970s-1980s
Includes extracts and pedigrees 15th century-20th century
PAPERS OF JAMES R OGDEN
Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)
1865-1940
Consisting mainly of correspondence, notes, articles and photographs of a wide range of historical and archaeological topics, notably Oliver Cromwell and the battle of Marston Moor and its commemerati...
PEDIGREES OF VARIOUS YORKSHIRE FAMILIES
Late 19th century-1959
Including, Appleyard, Brook, Castle, Dresser, Habergham, Newsham, Smith and Wriglesworth
CLARKE THORNHILL OF FIXBY COLLECTION: COURT ROLLS
14th century-17th century
For Bardsey 1397, Beamsley 1398-1407, 1450-1460, 1580, 1588 and 1590, Burley 1372, 1383-1385 and 1489-1496, Calverley 1314, 1349-1750, (incomplete series), Farsley 1357, Pudsey 1347, 1349 and 1448-...
PLANS, DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHURCHES, HOUSES, STANDING STONES, CROSSES, COATS OF ARMS AND SEALS
18th century-20th century
Including plans of the churches of Eyryholme, Holme upon Spalding Moor, Wakefield, All Saints and Wycliffe 1850-1928. Drawings of Barningham (cross), Carnaby (inscription), Gargrave (arms), Jervaulx ...
Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers
Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)
c.1900-1980
Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...
PHOTOCOPIES OF PAPERS RELATING TO R W CRABTREE AND SONS, ENGINEERS
(18th century-20th century)
Including papers relating to the family
THELLUSSON OF BRODSWORTH COLLECTION
1561 - 1902
Deeds and papers of the estate of Peter Thellusson of Brodsworth, banker, relating to Adwick le Street, Amotherby, Barnby Dun, Barnsley, Bentley, Brodsworth, Hampole, Hooton Pagnell, Marr, Moss, Owsto...
DEEDS AND PAPERS RELATING TO VARIOUS PLACES
16th century-18th century
Includes properties at Anlaby, Burnsall, Gisburn, Gomersal, Halifax, Hessle, Hutton Rudby, Kettlewell, Kingston-upon-Hill, Middleham, Ravensworth and Whishton, Sawley, Skircoat, Southowram, Threshfiel...