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Total number of records: 2285

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Record typeCount
Archives2257
Books and printed items23
Objects3
Art items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1592
Brotherton Collection210
English Literature208
Feminist Archive North98
Business Archives47
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections10
Art and Antique Market8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections7
Liddle Collection5

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SubjectCount
letters119
english poetry79
textile industry40
english literature40
business records40
english fiction23
english drama21
diaries11
commercial correspondence11
scrapbooks8

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire16
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding14
York; Yorkshire12
England7
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding5
London4
Durham3
Wales3
Yorkshire West Riding3
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Thwaite Mills Society4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Yvbsg4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group4
Blakeston Family4
Baker Family3
Dorothy Una Phillips3
Thwaite, Anthony (1930-)3

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From 1800916
From 19001282
From 200086

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Up to 1899570
Up to 19991432
Up to latest283
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD476 (Add1)
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1277/1-2
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1853/add1
2009
Archive Collection:
FAN/1 in 4
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1952/1
1865-1999
Comprises: 1) Minutes of the various council, open, special and annual general meetings of the Association, 1865-1997, with printed notices of these forthcoming meetings pasted into the volumes at the...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1956/1
1875-1947
Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1973/1
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1988/1
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.
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1990/1
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...