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Total number of records: 923

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Archives919
Books and printed items2
Art items1
Objects1

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society842
Brotherton Collection32
English Literature25
Business Archives10
Medical Collections4
University Archive1

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letters18
english poetry10
textile industry9
business records8
english literature4
commercial correspondence3
english drama2
diaries2
general surgery2
lecture notes2

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Yorkshire24
York; Yorkshire17
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding11
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding6
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding5
London4
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Yorkshire West Riding3
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Knaresborough; Yorkshire West Riding3

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People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Blakeston Family4
Rockley Family3
Beaumont Family3
Baker Family3
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)2
Gaskell Family2
Fitzwilliam Family2
Gascoigne Family2
Fearne Family2

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Archive Art Collection:
ART 090
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...
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/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/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/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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS102
nd [19th century]
Comprising a volume of pedigrees of Ashton, Sherwood, Rockley, Saville, Gascoigne and Blakeston some with branches. Index in volume, but the last 10 pedigrees are missing.
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1027
(1846)
Transcript of the award omitts acreages and tithes paid
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1029
Early 18th century
Containing a history of Hatfield by Abraham de la Pryme and an account of the churches of Hatfield, Fishlake, and Barnby Dun by James Torre, with John Speed's map of Yorkshire, North and East Ridings...