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Total number of records: 133042

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection19039
University Archive12973
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884
Liddle Collection11747
South Bank Show Production Archive9646
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9581
English Literature5802
Leeds Russian Archive5121
Business Archives4699
Leeds Poetry4339

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture3250
occupations2580
english language - dialects1980
community life1835
nature1658
popular music1553
agriculture1221
literature (prose)1186
buildings1157
animals1115

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3661
London, United Kingdom1061
Yorkshire378
Leeds, United Kingdom325
Lincolnshire167
Essex166
Lancashire156
Somerset149
Norfolk145
Staffordshire122

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1532
English National Opera North1496
Opera North1496
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)822
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)675
National Women'S Aid Federation657
Women'S Aid Federation England585
Women'S Aid585
Women'S Aid Federation of England585

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1900120780
From 200012228

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1991
Up to 5994
Up to 10992
Up to 189933
Up to 1999101769
Up to latest31200

Archive Collection

Stone heads index

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...

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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 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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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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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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PAPERS RELATING TO THE HALL FAMILY OF DUNNINGTON, LILLING AND LEVENTHORPE

[20th century]

Mainly extracts from registers and pedigrees etc; includes copy discharge and further mortgage on property of Joseph Fisher in Cumberworth, Soyland, Lighthazles, Lockwood, Almondbury and Crosland 1729...

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INCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP [CARDINAL] WOLSEY BY A HAMILTON THOMPSON,

20th century

Original is at Borthwick Institute, York

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