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Total number of records: 2283

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives2255
Books and printed items23
Objects3
Art items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1592
Brotherton Collection210
English Literature208
Feminist Archive North96
Business Archives47
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections10
Art and Antique Market8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections7
Liddle Collection5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters119
english poetry79
textile industry40
english literature40
business records40
english fiction23
english drama21
diaries11
commercial correspondence11
scrapbooks8

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire16
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding14
York; Yorkshire12
England7
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding5
London4
Durham3
Wales3
Yorkshire West Riding3
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Thwaite Mills Society4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Yvbsg4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group4
Blakeston Family4
Baker Family3
Dorothy Una Phillips3
Thwaite, Anthony (1930-)3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800916
From 19001280
From 200086

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899570
Up to 19991431
Up to latest282

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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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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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching Archive

Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

1912-2001

Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.

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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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