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Total number of records: 2001

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1980
Books and printed items17
Art items2
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1489
Brotherton Collection166
English Literature163
Business Archives46
Feminist Archive North43
Leeds Poetry12
Medical Collections10
Art and Antique Market6
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
Liddle Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters106
english poetry69
textile industry40
business records40
english literature34
english drama20
english fiction16
commercial correspondence11
diaries10
education7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire16
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding14
York; Yorkshire12
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding5
London4
England4
Durham3
Wales3
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding3
France3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Blakeston Family4
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips3
Beaumont Family3
Dorothy Una Phillips3
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)3
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)3
Baker Family3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800896
From 19001104
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899570
Up to 19991431

Archive Collection

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...

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Archive Collection

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...

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Archive Collection

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...

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Archive Collection

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...

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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...

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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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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...

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Archive Object Collection

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)...

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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...

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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...

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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

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