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Total number of records: 3744

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives3475
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 North153
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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Archive Collection

1 in 4 Collection

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...

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Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

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...

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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

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...

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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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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching Archive

Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

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.

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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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Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

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...

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Archive Object Collection

Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden

Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)

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)...

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Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

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...

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DEEDS AND COPYHOLD ADMITTANCES

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...

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Lease for 20 years

1795

1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax

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RALPH THORESBY'S CORRESPONDENCE, VOLUME 5

1716-1723

Microfilm copy available.

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