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Total number of records: 431307

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items209936
Archives142255
Indexes42803
People and organisations29984
Textiles2978
Art items1710
Objects1147
Coins489

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection81684
Liddle Collection33072
English Literature28357
Letters Database22935
Herbert Read Collection16281
Leeds Russian Archive15162
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society13692
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
University Archive11664
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10322

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185641
culture3228
occupations2590
english poetry2324
english language - dialects1986
community life1833
nature1687
agriculture1683
jews1562
art1537

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain6709
England5672
France3323
Soviet Union1475
London, United Kingdom1338
Rome1019
Europe975
United Kingdom899
Russia836
Greece822

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4060
Great Britain2057
Church of England1753
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533
Anonymous1453
Shorter, Clement King1412
Gosse, Edmund1327
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1169

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170060792
From 1800126373
From 1900244005
From 2000122

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 996
Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
Up to 8992
Up to 9991
Up to 10992
Up to 13991
Up to 15994
Up to 179948027
Up to 1899109074
Up to 1999274136

Archive Art Collection

Japanese prints

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...

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Archive Collection

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...

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Archive Collection

Stone heads index

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...

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Archive Collection

1 in 4 Collection

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...

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Archive Collection

Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

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...

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Archive Collection

Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

1875-1947

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...

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Archive Collection

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...

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Archive Collection

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

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...

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Archive Object Collection

Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden

Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)

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)...

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Archive Collection

Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

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...

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Archive Collection

Lease for 20 years

1795

1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax

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