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Total number of records: 2420

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives2397
Books and printed items18
Art items3
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1874
Brotherton Collection174
English Literature167
Business Archives48
Feminist Archive North44
Medical Collections12
Leeds Poetry12
Art and Antique Market6
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
Liddle Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters109
english poetry69
business records44
textile industry43
english literature35
english drama20
english fiction17
commercial correspondence12
diaries10
scrapbooks7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire31
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding24
York; Yorkshire19
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding6
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding6
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6
England4
London4
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding4
Horbury; Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Blakeston Family4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)3
Rockley Family3
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)3
Baker Family3
Dorothy Una Clough3
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)3
Dorothy Una Phillips3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1700418
From 1800896
From 19001105
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1799207
Up to 1899716
Up to 19991497

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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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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