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Total number of records: 3743

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives3474
Books and printed items262
Art items3
Objects3
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2670
Brotherton Collection302
English Literature250
Feminist Archive North152
Business Archives54
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections13
Art and Antique Market10
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections10
Quaker Collection8

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters122
english poetry79
business records48
textile industry46
english literature41
english fiction24
english drama21
commercial correspondence14
diaries12
gypsies8

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire59
York; Yorkshire32
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding30
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding16
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding14
England7
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding6
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding6
Yorkshire West Riding6
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)6
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)6
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)6
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor6
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)6
Dorothy Una Clough4
Blakeston Family4
Thwaite Mills Society4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group4

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From 19001276
From 200086

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Archive Art Collection

Japanese prints

1735-1873

Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...

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Archive Collection

Ripon Cathedral (Dean and Chapter) Archive

Ripon Cathedral Dean and Chapter

12th century - 21st century

The greater part of their accumulated archives was very generously deposited recently in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds by the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. It is hoped that by this ar...

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Archive Collection

Carlton Hill Collection

17th-20th century

The Carlton Hill collection of archives contains records of meetings of the Society of Friends for the mid-part of the old West Riding of Yorkshire (now divided between West and North Yorkshire), and ...

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Archive Print Collection

Early French 1

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Archive Collection

CARTULARIUM ACASTRENSE VOLUME 1

1282-1518

A collection of charters bound together in a case. They relate principally to lands, etc., in Acaster Malbis, but there is a deed relating to Chevermunt, and another to Bishopthorpe. Four of the chart...

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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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COPY LETTERS FROM RALPH THORESBY TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS

1695-1724

Also includes a list of books, and a copy of the "Answer to Priestcraft" written by Thoresby's friend Richard Thornton (see Ducatus Leodiensis p536).

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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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