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Total number of records: 3747

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Archives3478
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 North155
Business Archives54
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections13
Art and Antique Market10
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections10
Quaker Collection8

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

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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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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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (1)
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...
Archive Object Collection:
OBJ 1
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)...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Bennett (1)
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD10
15th-19th century
Deeds and copyhold admittances, mainly relating to Eggborough, Kelfield, Kellington, Sherwood and Whitley and the families of Awnby [or Anby], Girlington, Jackson, Laycock and Morritt 15th-19th centur...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD285/10
1795
1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS10
1716-1723
Microfilm copy available.