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Total number of records: 2285

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	2257
Books and printed items	23
Objects	3
Art items	2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1592
Brotherton Collection	210
English Literature	208
Feminist Archive North	98
Business Archives	47
Leeds Poetry	22
Medical Collections	10
Art and Antique Market	8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	7
Liddle Collection	5

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
letters	119
english poetry	79
textile industry	40
english literature	40
business records	40
english fiction	23
english drama	21
diaries	11
commercial correspondence	11
scrapbooks	8

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Yorkshire	16
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding	14
York; Yorkshire	12
England	7
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding	5
London	4
Durham	3
Wales	3
Yorkshire West Riding	3
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding	3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Radcliffe Family	10
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)	5
Thwaite Mills Society	4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)	4
Yvbsg	4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group	4
Blakeston Family	4
Baker Family	3
Dorothy Una Phillips	3
Thwaite, Anthony (1930-)	3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1800	916
From 1900	1282
From 2000	86

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	570
Up to 1999	1432
Up to latest	283

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

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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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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Archive Collection