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Total number of records: 370244
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| Collection group | Count |
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| Brotherton Collection | 69704 |
| Liddle Collection | 33067 |
| Letters Database | 22485 |
| English Literature | 21723 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 16259 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 15138 |
| Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive | 12770 |
| University Archive | 11659 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 10322 |
| Cookery Collection | 7795 |
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| People and organisations | Count |
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| Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927) | 4527 |
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 3838 |
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 1533 |
| Great Britain | 1435 |
| Shorter, Clement King | 1412 |
| Gosse, Edmund | 1327 |
| Kissling, Werner (1895-1988) | 1198 |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | 1169 |
| Church of England | 1135 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 1090 |
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.
Bennett, Alan
1991
Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...
PAPERS RELATING TO THE HALL FAMILY OF DUNNINGTON, LILLING AND LEVENTHORPE
[20th century]
Mainly extracts from registers and pedigrees etc; includes copy discharge and further mortgage on property of Joseph Fisher in Cumberworth, Soyland, Lighthazles, Lockwood, Almondbury and Crosland 1729...
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES
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