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Total number of records: 570

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives568
Objects1
Books and printed items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society506
Brotherton Collection27
English Literature22
Business Archives9
Medical Collections3
University Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters16
english poetry10
textile industry7
business records6
english literature3
commercial correspondence3
english drama2
lecture notes2
diaries2
jurisprudence1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
York; Yorkshire10
Yorkshire9
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding7
London4
Yorkshire West Riding3
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding3
Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
Norfolk2
Scarborough; Yorkshire North Riding2
Greetland; Elland; Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Blakeston Family4
Baker Family3
Beaumont Family3
Gascoigne Family2
Aston Family2
Bentham Family2
Chadwick Family2
Beckett Family2
Dimsdale Family2

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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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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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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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS: INQUISITIONS

1808-1811

Comprising a volume of copies of Inquisitions relating to the Roos, Salvain and Aldburgh families, (Edward I to Henry VI 1306-1443), original letters from Robert Surtees, pedigrees of Hilton, Conyer...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

nd [19th century]

Comprising a volume of pedigrees of Ashton, Sherwood, Rockley, Saville, Gascoigne and Blakeston some with branches. Index in volume, but the last 10 pedigrees are missing.

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PRINT OF A TRACING OF THE HEADINGLEY TITHE MAP AND TRANSCRIPT OF THE AWARD

(1846)

Transcript of the award omitts acreages and tithes paid

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

1810-1820

Comprising a volume of pedigrees with notes, including Ryther, Suger; Hoghton, Langton; Gerard, Butler, Clitheroe, Balderston, Gascoigne, Tate, Radcliffe, Fitzwilliam, with descent of the Constables ...

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SOKES, THE LEEDS BAKEHOUSE

19th century

Unpublished article by John Holmes

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ANCIENT IRON-STONE PITS

1884

Unpublished article by John Holmes

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THE VICE-ROY EARLS OF NORTHUMBRIA

nd [19th century]

Unpublished article by Frederick Ross

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CIVIL WAR PROCEEDINGS IN YORKSHIRE

19th century

Unpublished transcripts of civil war tracts

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