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Total number of records: 1445
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| University Archive | 699 |
| Student Newspapers | 646 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 300 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 143 |
| Liddle Collection | 61 |
| Brotherton Collection | 46 |
| Business Archives | 23 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 17 |
| English Literature | 16 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 7 |
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Top 10: Place
| Place | Count |
|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 2 |
| Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding | 2 |
| Kirkby Ravensworth; Yorkshire North Riding | 1 |
| Kilnsey; Conistone; Burnsall; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Meaux; Wawne; Yorkshire East Riding | 1 |
| Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Sutton Under Whitestonecliffe; Felixkirk; Yorkshire North Riding | 1 |
| Settle; Giggleswick; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Pontefract; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Holderness Wapentake; Yorkshire East Riding | 1 |
Top 10: People and organisations
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES
1970-1981
Including Beever, Burhouse, Busfield, Clapham, Ferrand, Grace, Hardwicke, Hobson, Jubb, Longhorn, Oates, Paley, Richmond, Stevenson and Talbot, notes relating to Hainsworth, Johnson, Pickles, Tebbet ...
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...
PAPERS OF MARY CHITTY (NEE KITSON CLARK)
Kitson Clark, Mary (1905-2005)
1920-1960
Comprising correspondence, notes, photographs and other papers mainly relating to archaeological topics, notably to the activities of the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological So...
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES RELATING TO THE MAWER FAMILY COMPILED BY H MAWER
20th century
Covers 16th-20th century
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, ...
PHOTOGRAPHS AND NOTES BY SIDNEY JACKSON RELATING TO CELTIC AND OTHER STONE HEADS
1960-1979
The collection contains well over 1000 identified photographs of stone heads, mainly from the West Riding. There are also numberous examples drawn from all over the country, some belonging to muneum c...
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES
1979-1980
Related to families including Alty, Atkinson, Bateson, Bayne, Bonwell, Copley, Fish, Hall, Ireland, Iveson, Leach, Lumb, Nicholson, Oates, Owston, Palmes, Pollard, Pontefract, Scarr, Scott, Stead, T...
GENEALOGICAL NOTES RELATING TO THE STOTT FAMILY OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE BY B TOOLE-STOTT
1970s-1980s
Includes extracts and pedigrees 15th century-20th century
PAPERS OF JAMES R OGDEN
Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)
1865-1940
Consisting mainly of correspondence, notes, articles and photographs of a wide range of historical and archaeological topics, notably Oliver Cromwell and the battle of Marston Moor and its commemerati...
PEDIGREES OF VARIOUS YORKSHIRE FAMILIES
Late 19th century-1959
Including, Appleyard, Brook, Castle, Dresser, Habergham, Newsham, Smith and Wriglesworth
Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers
Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)
c.1900-1980
Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...