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Total number of records: 2715

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Archives2684
Books and printed items25
Art items3
Objects3

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Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1982
Brotherton Collection218
English Literature212
Feminist Archive North98
Business Archives49
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections13
Art and Antique Market9
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections7
University Archive5

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letters122
english poetry79
business records44
textile industry43
english literature41
english fiction24
english drama21
commercial correspondence12
diaries11
education8

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Yorkshire31
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding25
York; Yorkshire19
England7
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding6
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding6
Horbury; Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding4
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding4
London4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Blakeston Family4
Thwaite Mills Society4
Yvbsg4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group4
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)3
Dorothy Una Clough3
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)3

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From 1800916
From 19001282
From 200086

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Up to 19991497
Up to latest295

Archive Collection

Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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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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Archive Collection

RALPH THORESBY'S CORRESPONDENCE, VOLUME 5

1716-1723

Microfilm copy available.

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Archive Collection

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...

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Archive Collection

WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

1800-1819

Comprising several pedigrees of the Beaumont family, tricks and quarterings of arms with a number of original letters to Radcliffe from R H and J Beaumont of Whitley Hall, Kirkheaton

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Archive Collection

George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire

c1810-1885

The original watercolours for the images published as engravings in 'The Costume of Yorkshire' 1814 in one volume, a volume of engravings from the first edition and an edition of 'The Costume of Yorks...

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COPIES OF SATIRICAL POEMS BY GEORGE PLAXTON, RECTOR OF BARWICK IN ELMET

Early 18th century

Also includes pamphlets, 18th century, correspondence, and transcripts 20th century

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INCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP [CARDINAL] WOLSEY BY A HAMILTON THOMPSON,

20th century

Original is at Borthwick Institute, York

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