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Total number of records: 1367

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1348
Books and printed items15
Art items2
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society896
English Literature139
Brotherton Collection129
Feminist Archive North96
Leeds Poetry21
Art and Antique Market8
Business Archives7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
Liddle Collection4
Medical Collections3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters59
english poetry52
english literature22
english fiction16
english drama15
business records7
textile industry7
diaries6
education6
scrapbooks5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England6
Yorkshire4
Lockington; Yorkshire East Riding2
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding2
York; Yorkshire2
Scorton; Catterick; Yorkshire North Riding1
Scotland1
Slack; Longwood; Huddersfield; Yorkshire West Riding1
Sawley In Bowland; Yorkshire West Riding1
Morley; Batley; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Thwaite Mills Society4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group4
Yvbsg4
Hamilton, David Mbe2
Glover, Jon2
Haffenden, John2
Barker, George (1913-1991)2
Kitson Clark, Mary (1905-2005)2
Harrison, Tony (1937-)2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 19001280
From 200086

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 19991105
Up to latest262

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 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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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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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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