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Total number of records: 693696

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items258702
Archives190292
People and organisations131819
Indexes97388
Coins6124
Textiles4492
Art items3678
Objects1196

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection104079
Quaker Collection53782
English Literature35240
Liddle Collection34062
Letters Database32454
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society24873
Leeds Russian Archive20456
Herbert Read Collection17409
University Archive13957
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185968
culture3287
english poetry2737
occupations2592
english language - dialects1988
art1947
society of friends1880
community life1845
jews1742
agriculture1729

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain8648
England6372
France3651
Leeds3444
Rome2132
Soviet Union1995
Bradford1467
London, United Kingdom1351
Europe1288
Russia1254

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5517
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Anonymous2650
Great Britain2435
Shorter, Clement King2146
Church of England2145
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-19682062
Gosse, Edmund1758
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1716
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1534

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Archive Art Collection:
ART 090
1735-1873
Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...
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 Print Collection:
Early French 1
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