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Total number of records: 154827

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection23216
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society21750
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Liddle Collection11838
University Archive11621
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9577
Business Archives6533
English Literature6086
Leeds Russian Archive5169
South Bank Show Production Archive5001

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture3209
occupations2581
english language - dialects1985
community life1829
nature1661
letters1521
letter writing1457
agriculture1233
animals1190
buildings1158

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3574
London, United Kingdom1332
Yorkshire434
Leeds, United Kingdom320
Genoa, Italy293
Lincolnshire170
Essex167
Lancashire158
Norfolk148
Somerset148

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1531
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Opera North983
English National Opera North983
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)682
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)671
Wright, John T571
Sala, George Augustus503
Wright, Peter445

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Archive Collection

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 ...

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CARTULARIUM ACASTRENSE VOLUME 1

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...

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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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COPY LETTERS FROM RALPH THORESBY TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS

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).

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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