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Total number of records: 474423

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items229779
Archives152454
Indexes46452
People and organisations38679
Textiles3018
Art items1710
Coins1175
Objects1151

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection94155
Liddle Collection33073
English Literature30840
Letters Database22959
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society21991
Herbert Read Collection16281
Leeds Russian Archive15163
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
University Archive11664
Quaker Collection11526

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185642
culture3228
occupations2592
english poetry2460
english language - dialects1986
society of friends1839
community life1834
agriculture1718
nature1688
jews1603

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain8139
England5709
France3508
Soviet Union1479
London, United Kingdom1338
Rome1172
Europe1075
United Kingdom900
Greece860
Russia848

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4075
Anonymous2647
Great Britain2365
Church of England2122
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1685
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533
Catholic Church1423
Shorter, Clement King1412
Gosse, Edmund1327

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 14003800
From 15007795
From 160031810
From 170060766
From 1800126262
From 1900243853
From 2000122

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 996
Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
Up to 8992
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Up to 14992646
Up to 15996152
Up to 169928636
Up to 179953222
Up to 1899109453
Up to 1999274248

Archive Art Collection

Japanese prints

1735-1873

Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...

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Archive Collection

Carlton Hill Collection

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 ...

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Archive Collection

PAPERS RELATING TO ELLAND AND HALIFAX, MOSTLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CROSSLEY AND WHEELWRIGHT FAMILIES

19th-20th century

Includes family papers relating to the Crossley family including correspondence, valuations, insurance, wills etc. Papers relating to the Wheelwright Family. Papers relating to Mearclough Mill. Pap...

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Archive Collection

COPY LETTERS FROM RALPH THORESBY TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS

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).

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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

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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Archive Collection

Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

1865-1999

Comprises: 1) Minutes of the various council, open, special and annual general meetings of the Association, 1865-1997, with printed notices of these forthcoming meetings pasted into the volumes at the...

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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

1875-1947

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...

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Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive

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...

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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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