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Total number of records: 1384

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives643
Books and printed items623
People and organisations54
Indexes46
Objects8
Textiles6
Art items4

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection269
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture156
Liddle Collection147
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society115
English Literature70
University Archive60
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive57
Cookery Collection43
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections35
Quaker Collection24

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
architecture45
world war, 1914-191840
culture32
agriculture30
occupations29
community life26
english language - dialects22
cooking, english18
food17
implements, utensils etc17

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England166
Kent92
Wales32
Great Britain29
Kent (England)29
Yorkshire (England)12
Warren Street11
Denton11
Wiltshire11
Staple11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barry, Michael V (1935-)75
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)55
Britton, John28
Rees, Thomas28
Evans, John28
Brewer, James Norris (1829-)28
Britton, John (1771-1857)28
Rees, Thomas (1777-1864)28
Hodgson, John28
Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853)28

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Up to 1899332
Up to 1999773
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Archive Collection

PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PAPERS OF KENT FAMILY OF TATEFIELD HALL

18th century-20th century

Including: farm account books of Isaac Denison of Dunkeswick and others 1809-1893 and diary of a farmer recording the weather, events on the farm, payments 1855-1893 (back of diary records accounts re...

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Archive File

Two West Kent Dialects: A Comparative Phonological Study of the Dialects of Hever and Chiddingstone, Kent

North, David J

1979

M.A. (Dialectology) dissertation comprising five chapters. The first presents a description of the vowel sounds of stressed and unstressed syllables, and the consonant system, in the Kent dialects of ...

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Archive Object Collection

Cuneiforms collected by Mr B. Kent

Kent, Benjamin William John

c. -2000

6 cuneiform tablets with descriptive labels, housed in University envelopes. Kent's associate, Mr James Ogden, sent these and other cuneiform tablets to the British Museum in 1929 for analysis. They...

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Archive Collection

Kent Gallery Ltd. photograph albums

Kent Gallery Limited

1920-1932

The collection comprises two photograph albums which contain photographs of the stock of the antique furniture dealers' Kent Gallery Ltd. The albums were used as inventories of stock and possibly to ...

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