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Total number of records: 96798

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items64670
Archives21176
Indexes5622
People and organisations4360
Textiles395
Art items277
Coins194
Objects104

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection21132
English Literature5691
Letters Database5580
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5144
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive3669
Quaker Collection3382
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2273
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1629
Art and Antique Market1625
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1567

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
sermons, english769
letters618
letter539
letter writing508
english language506
poets, english485
english poetry475
pre-raphaelites440
hymns, english355
latin language353

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2105
France1053
England732
Greece392
Rome359
Yorkshire (England)303
Genoa, Italy277
London, United Kingdom277
Europe274
Iceland268

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)1279
Church of England1028
Great Britain864
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)738
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)595
Catholic Church477
Sala, George Augustus431
Gosse, Edmund390
Society of Friends376
Great Britain. Parliament355

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Earliest dateCount
From 180096696
From 19006
From 200083

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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/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/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/MS103
1810-1820
Comprising a volume of pedigrees with notes, including Ryther, Suger; Hoghton, Langton; Gerard, Butler, Clitheroe, Balderston, Gascoigne, Tate, Radcliffe, Fitzwilliam, with descent of the Constables ...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1030
19th century
Unpublished article by John Holmes
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1031
1884
Unpublished article by John Holmes
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1032
nd [19th century]
Unpublished article by Frederick Ross
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1033
19th century
Unpublished transcripts of civil war tracts