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Total number of records: 184

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society120
Business Archives22
Brotherton Collection11
English Literature10
Womens Aid Federation of England Archive1
South Bank Show Production Archive1
Leeds Poetry1
Art and Antique Market1

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textile industry22
business records21
letters18
english poetry6
commercial correspondence6
english literature5
music2
scrapbooks2
english fiction2
international trade1

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Yorkshire2
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding2
Meaux; Wawne; Yorkshire East Riding1
Kirkby Ravensworth; Yorkshire North Riding1
Pontefract; Yorkshire West Riding1
Sutton Under Whitestonecliffe; Felixkirk; Yorkshire North Riding1
Settle; Giggleswick; Yorkshire West Riding1
Kilnsey; Conistone; Burnsall; Yorkshire West Riding1
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding1
Giggleswick; Yorkshire West Riding1

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Yvbsg2
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group2
Maude, Aylmer (1858-1938)1
Medvei, Dr Victor Cornelius (1905-2000)1
Marshall Family1
New Statesman1
Mary Chitty1
Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)1
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde1
Opera North1

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From 180093
From 190091

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Up to 189928
Up to 1999141
Up to latest15

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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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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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE CRAWSHAW FAMILY OF DEWSBURY AREA, YORK AREA, WOOLLEY, ROYSTON, SHEFFIELD, HALIFAX, NORTH LINCOLSHIRE AND HULL AREAS

c1970

With full references to relevant documents and printed sources including parish registers, wills, Wakefield court rolls, directories and Yorkshire fines.

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COLLECTION OF PRESS CUTTINGS, AND ARTICLES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS COLLECTED BY B G CAMPBELL

20th century

Files, presscuttings, journal reviews, articles and private study notes relating to Europe, Africa, Far East, India, Anglo-Saxon Britain, pottery, querns, vikings

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PEDIGREES AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES COMPILED BY MEMBERS OF THE YAS FAMILY HISTORY SECTION

20th century

Including pedigrees of Bentley, Dinsdale, Palmer. A list of Jackson entries in the Terrington N. Yorkshire parish registers (18-19th century), a list of early settlers in Whatcom County [Washington, U...

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PHOTOCOPIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO RELATIONS IN AMERICA

1847-1906

Also an additional deposit of 65 photocopy letters.

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PAPERS OF W HORNSBY, SALTBURN, INCLUDING LETTERS AND PAMPHLETS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOPICS

1902-1937

Including letters received from F Elgee, W Farrer, FG Simpson, F Villey and R E M Wheeler

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HARTLEY THWAITE PAPERS

20th century

Consisting of notes, transcripts and photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to Yorkshire history, mainly to Abbotside and Wenleydale, and to the Thwaite(s), Metcalfe and other families ...

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ARCHAEOLOGIAL PAPERS OF F G SIMPSON

1902-1921

Comprising notes and plan of the Leeds area by F Villy nd, traced plan of Castley and Wescoehill 1921, annotated Ordnance Survey maps for Rigton and Wothersome 1902, Alwoodley, Bramham and Newton Kym...

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