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Total number of records: 113

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Archives111
Art items2

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society58
Brotherton Collection30
University Archive9
Student Newspapers6
English Literature5
Business Archives4
University Art Collection2
Quaker Collection1
Joseph Wood Collections1
Medical Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters5
textile industry5
business records3
lectures and lecturing1
textile workers1
politicians1
flax spinning1
english poetry1
cotton trade1
commercial correspondence1

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Yorkshire3
Ossett; Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding2
Kippax; Yorkshire West Riding1
Knottingley; Pontefract; Yorkshire West Riding1
Sutton Under Whitestonecliffe; Felixkirk; Yorkshire North Riding1
Woolley; Royston; Yorkshire West Riding1
Warmfield; Yorkshire West Riding1
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding1
Kilnsey; Conistone; Burnsall; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Russell, John2
Richardson-Currer Family1
Wordsworth, Mary (1770-1859)1
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)1
Ruskin, John James (1785-1864)1
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)1
Radcliffe Family1
Wilson Family1
Marshall, John (1765-1845)1
Beardsley, Ellen1

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From 170042
From 180070
From 20001

Count of Latest date

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Up to 17997
Up to 1899106

Archive Collection

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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DEEDS MAINLY RELATING TO ASENBY

1720-1818

Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe

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MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND PAPERS

1739-1814

Comprising petition from the citizens of Halifax against the repeal of the act establishing a court of requests for the collection of small debts n.d. [1776]; deeds of George Wood and John Broadhead r...

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MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND WILLS

1797-1889

Relating to Askrigg, Barnsley, Brampton, Dale Town in the parish of Hawnby, Darfield, Doncaster, Guiseley, Kellington, Keyston [Huntingdonshire], Kirkheaton, Lavenham [Suffolk], Leeds, Little Mitton [...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: YORKSHIRE COLLECTIONS

1827

Comprising a small book lettered "Radcliffe, Yorkshire Collections". It contains a number of extracts from Dodsworth's mss, monumental inscriptions in Featherstone Church and extracts from the pari...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: FAMILY EVIDENCES

1807-1825

Comprising a book lettered "Radcliffe's family evidences". Principal contents include the following extracts, evidences at Kirklees Hall made in 1809, evidences of Joseph Armytage of Outwood Lodge, ...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES VOLUME 1

1808-1825

Volume lettered "Geneal. Vari. R III"containing pedigrees. At page 165 of first volume and page 166 of the second volume are original letters from the Rev. Joseph Hunter. No index

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES VOLUME 2

1807-1816

Pedigrees in volume lettered 'Geneal. Vari. R IV', similarly includes letter from Rev Joseph Hunter, 1815. No Index.

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LETTERS OF CLAPHAM FAMILY

1801-1869

Comprising letters of George Clapham 1801-1824 and John Clapham 1843-1869. Also a copy of Birstall tithe map, 1848, with part of schedule extracted by Barbara Clapham 1995. Also trancripts of the lett...

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PHOTOCOPIES OF PAPERS RELATING TO GAS SUPPLIES

(c1808-1810)

Photocopies of gas installation drawings relating to Leeds by Boulton and Watt and other papers including Whitby Gas Light Company, drawings and presscuttings collected by K Golisti

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