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Total number of records: 39515

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society17610
Brotherton Collection5373
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive3669
Quaker Collection2339
Art and Antique Market1740
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1732
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1503
Business Archives1389
English Literature1120
Medieval Manuscripts624

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters654
letter539
letter writing507
pre-raphaelites440
poets, english440
family245
drawing243
hymns, english212
english poetry209
genealogy208

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy274
London, United Kingdom274
Italy59
Yorkshire49
Nice, France32
Verona (Italy)32
York; Yorkshire28
Beckenham, United Kingdom21
Rome, Italy21
Florence, Italy19

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)1279
Sala, George Augustus427
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)227
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)137
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)105
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria66
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)46
Cowden Clarke, Charles34
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)29

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 14001433
From 15001982
From 16006545
From 17008377
From 180021138
From 19004
From 200032

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1991
Up to 5994
Up to 10992
Up to 14991114
Up to 15991876
Up to 16996032
Up to 17997610
Up to 189922876
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:
MS Dep. 1973/1
1862-1866
Papers relating to the fund raised in Leeds for relief of distress in the Lancashire cotton districts caused by the American civil war In the autumn of 1862, the American Civil War began to affect t...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD10
15th-19th century
Deeds and copyhold admittances, mainly relating to Eggborough, Kelfield, Kellington, Sherwood and Whitley and the families of Awnby [or Anby], Girlington, Jackson, Laycock and Morritt 15th-19th centur...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD285/10
1795
1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS10
1716-1723
Microfilm copy available.
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD100
1457-8
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS100
1800-1819
Comprising several pedigrees of the Beaumont family, tricks and quarterings of arms with a number of original letters to Radcliffe from R H and J Beaumont of Whitley Hall, Kirkheaton
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1000
c1810-1885
The original watercolours for the images published as engravings in 'The Costume of Yorkshire' 1814 in one volume, a volume of engravings from the first edition and an edition of 'The Costume of Yorks...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1001
Early 18th century
Also includes pamphlets, 18th century, correspondence, and transcripts 20th century
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD101
8 Jul 1609
1. John Towneley of Hyrstwood, Lancashire 2. John Brooke of Littlecargreene of Dalton, chapman
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD101
28 Aug 1599-17th century
1. John Hyndesley of Foggthorpe and his son John 2. John Clarke of Warter and his son Robert
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS101
1808-1811
Comprising a volume of copies of Inquisitions relating to the Roos, Salvain and Aldburgh families, (Edward I to Henry VI 1306-1443), original letters from Robert Surtees, pedigrees of Hilton, Conyer...