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Total number of records: 223656

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	95499
Archives	89265
Indexes	32949
People and organisations	2325
Textiles	1275
Art items	1262
Objects	1063
Coins	15

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	41461
Liddle Collection	31704
Letters Database	16422
Herbert Read Collection	14766
English Literature	13429
Leeds Russian Archive	13373
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	10199
University Archive	9930
Cookery Collection	5716
Business Archives	4700

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
world war, 1914-1918	4979
culture	3199
occupations	2583
english language - dialects	1978
community life	1824
nature	1666
agriculture	1314
english poetry	1309
art	1207
buildings	1201

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
England	4466
Great Britain	2095
Soviet Union	1312
London, United Kingdom	977
France	973
Russia	541
United Kingdom	443
Iceland	429
Rome	400
Yorkshire	376

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	2382
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	1532
Shorter, Clement King	1272
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)	1198
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)	1039
Crossley-Holland, Kevin	991
Gosse, Edmund	857
Thwaite, Anthony	724
Ransome, Arthur	687
English National Opera North	597

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1900	223520
From 2000	121

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	1
Up to 199	1
Up to 299	41
Up to 399	1
Up to 599	11
Up to 899	2
Up to 999	1
Up to 1099	2
Up to 1599	3
Up to 1799	1
Up to 1899	38
Up to 1999	223554

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection