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Total number of records: 2687

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1981
Brotherton Collection201
English Literature196
Feminist Archive North100
Business Archives49
Leeds Poetry21
Medical Collections13
Art and Antique Market9
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections7
Cookery Collection5

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letters122
english poetry79
business records44
textile industry43
english literature41
english fiction24
english drama21
commercial correspondence12
diaries11
education8

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Yorkshire31
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding25
York; Yorkshire19
England7
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding6
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Horbury; Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding4
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London4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Thwaite Mills Society4
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)4
Blakeston Family4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Yvbsg4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group4
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)3
Dorothy Una Clough3
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)3

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Archive Collection:
YAS/MD476 (Add1)
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1277/1-2
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1853/add1
2009
Archive Collection:
FAN/1 in 4
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1952/1
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1956/1
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...
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:
MS Dep. 1988/1
1912-2001
Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1990/1
1801-2000
The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...