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Total number of records: 53780
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Society of Friends | 775 |
| Fox, George (1624-1691) | 313 |
| Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting | 279 |
| Penn, William (1644-1718) | 270 |
| Whitehead, George (1636?-1723) | 163 |
| Wood, Joseph (1750-1821) | 111 |
| Burrough, Edward (1633-1663) | 110 |
| Penington, Isaac (1616-1679) | 106 |
| Barclay, Robert (1648-1690) | 89 |
| Naylor, James (1617?-1660) | 84 |
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Archive Collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1
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:
MS 1684
MS 1684
1850-1927
Comprises letters, reports, press cuttings, pamphlets and other material concerned with peace movements in Britain from before the outbreak of the First World War until the 1920s
Archive Collection:
MS 1936
MS 1936
23 Mar 1661-1840
The collection includes 100 notebooks written by Wood from 1767-1821. There are 63 large notebooks and 37 small ones. In his notebooks Wood recorded his ministry and copied his letters. A prolific ...
Archive Collection:
MS/DEP/1981/2
MS/DEP/1981/2
17th century-21st century
The Clifford Street, York, collection of archives contains records of the meetings of the Society of Friends in Yorkshire at two levels.
First, Records of the county-wide Quarterly Meeting (since 1...
Archive Print Collection:
Birkbeck Library
Birkbeck Library
Originally formed by Morris Birkbeck (1734-1816), and was deposited by the Yorkshire General Meeting in 1981. It consists of over 4,500 books both by and about the Quakers, most of the materials datin...
Archive Print Collection:
Society of Friends Collection
Society of Friends Collection
Quaker history and biography. Includes long runs of the Annual Monitor (Quaker obituaries), the Journal of the Friends Historical Society, and the proceedings of London Yearly Meeting.
Archive Collection:
SC MS Ford
SC MS Ford
1827-1963
Manuscript items relating to the Ford and Pease families, including photographs, portraits, scrapbooks, accounts, drawings, misellaneous verse and letters.
Archive Print Collection:
Leeds Friends Old Library
Leeds Friends Old Library
One of two important collections assembled by Yorkshire Quakers and housed by the Brotherton Library, the other being the Birkbeck Library. The collection had formed the meeting library for about 150 ...