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Total number of records: 12007

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items7186
Archives4818
Art items2
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Quaker Collection12007
Joseph Wood Collections627
Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
society of friends1768
quakers343
quaker church buildings272
tithes158
christian life117
persecution90
freedom of religion60
dissenters, religious59
churches, quaker55
conduct of life54

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PlaceCount
Great Britain84
United States21
Pennsylvania14
New England9
London (England)7
Germany7
Ireland7
Philadelphia (Pa.)5
Soviet Union5
Australia5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Society of Friends697
Fox, George (1624-1691)313
Penn, William (1644-1718)270
Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting213
Whitehead, George (1636?-1723)163
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)110
Burrough, Edward (1633-1663)110
Penington, Isaac (1616-1679)106
Barclay, Robert (1648-1690)89
Naylor, James (1617?-1660)84

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Earliest dateCount
From earliest8
From 15005
From 16002937
From 17002633
From 18003868
From 19002357
From 2000199

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Up to 998
Up to 15994
Up to 16992618
Up to 17992357
Up to 18993738
Up to 19992811
Up to latest471
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:
MS 1684
1850-1927
Comprises letters, reports, press cuttings, pamphlets and other material concerned with peace movements in Britain from before the outbreak of the First World War until the 1920s
Archive Collection:
MS 1936
23 Mar 1661-1840
The collection includes 100 notebooks written by Wood from 1767-1821. There are 63 large notebooks and 37 small ones. In his notebooks Wood recorded his ministry and copied his letters. A prolific ...
Archive Collection:
MS/DEP/1981/2
17th century-21st century
The Clifford Street, York, collection of archives contains records of the meetings of the Society of Friends in Yorkshire at two levels. First, Records of the county-wide Quarterly Meeting (since 1...
Archive Collection:
SC MS Ford
1827-1963
Manuscript items relating to the Ford and Pease families, including photographs, portraits, scrapbooks, accounts, drawings, misellaneous verse and letters.
Archive Sub-collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1/ADE
19th century-21st century
Archive Sub-collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1/ACK
1816-1978
Archive Sub-collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1/AIR
1624-21st century
Archive Sub-collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1/ASK
1666-2015
Archive Sub-collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1/BEN
1652-2015
Archive Sub-collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1/BRA
1650-21st century
Archive Sub-collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1/BIN
1960-1978