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Total number of records: 244142
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| Collection group | Count |
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| Brotherton Collection | 45430 |
| Liddle Collection | 32844 |
| Letters Database | 16566 |
| English Literature | 15461 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 15413 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 14379 |
| University Archive | 11037 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 10234 |
| Cookery Collection | 6353 |
| South Bank Show Production Archive | 5001 |
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| People and organisations | Count |
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| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 3015 |
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 1533 |
| Shorter, Clement King | 1272 |
| Kissling, Werner (1895-1988) | 1198 |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | 1169 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 1089 |
| English National Opera North | 983 |
| Opera North | 983 |
| Gosse, Edmund | 857 |
| Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 785 |
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
PAPERS RELATING TO THE HALL FAMILY OF DUNNINGTON, LILLING AND LEVENTHORPE
[20th century]
Mainly extracts from registers and pedigrees etc; includes copy discharge and further mortgage on property of Joseph Fisher in Cumberworth, Soyland, Lighthazles, Lockwood, Almondbury and Crosland 1729...
INCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP [CARDINAL] WOLSEY BY A HAMILTON THOMPSON,
20th century
Original is at Borthwick Institute, York
PHOTOGRAPHS AND SECTIONS OF AN EXCAVATION AT HORTON IN CRAVEN BY R C MUSSON
1945
Includes related letter, 1949