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Total number of records: 3478

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2668
Brotherton Collection215
English Literature196
Feminist Archive North153
Business Archives54
Leeds Poetry21
Medical Collections13
Art and Antique Market10
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections9
Cookery Collection6

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

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England7
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People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)6
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor6
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)6
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)6
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips4
Dorothy Una Clough4
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)4
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)4
Dorothy Una Phillips4

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Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1980/1
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...
Archive Collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1
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 ...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD1
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...
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/MS1
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).
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...