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Total number of records: 1106

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	1092
Books and printed items	11
Art items	2
Objects	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	793
English Literature	101
Brotherton Collection	93
Feminist Archive North	44
Leeds Poetry	11
Business Archives	7
Art and Antique Market	6
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	4
Medical Collections	3
Liddle Collection	3

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
letters	50
english poetry	42
english literature	18
english drama	14
english fiction	11
textile industry	7
business records	7
diaries	6
education	5
scrapbooks	4

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Yorkshire	4
England	3
Lockington; Yorkshire East Riding	2
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding	2
York; Yorkshire	2
Scorton; Catterick; Yorkshire North Riding	1
Sawley In Bowland; Yorkshire West Riding	1
Scotland	1
Meaux; Wawne; Yorkshire East Riding	1
Slack; Longwood; Huddersfield; Yorkshire West Riding	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)	3
Glover, Jon	2
Haffenden, John	2
Kitson Clark, Mary (1905-2005)	2
Knight, W F Jackson	2
Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)	2
Dorothy Una Phillips	2
Berry, Francis	2
Brown, Merle E (1925-)	2
Dorothy Una Clough	2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1900	1105
From 2000	1

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

FURTHER PAPERS OF THE MANBY FAMILY INCLUDES INVITATIONS TO A CONFERENCE IN FRANCE 1934 AND LEAFLET RELATING TO FRENCH COATS OF ARMS

20th century

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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

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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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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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