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Total number of records: 3610

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Record typeCount
Archives3598
Art items7
Books and printed items4

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
University Archive1610
Student Newspapers981
Womens Aid Federation of England Archive789
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture300
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society147
Liddle Collection63
Brotherton Collection51
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections29
Business Archives24
English Literature21

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
lgbtq+138
community life125
occupations105
gay101
agriculture83
culture83
nature80
education76
animals73
lesbian70

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Yorkshire2
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding2
Kirkby Ravensworth; Yorkshire North Riding1
Kilnsey; Conistone; Burnsall; Yorkshire West Riding1
Meaux; Wawne; Yorkshire East Riding1
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding1
Sutton Under Whitestonecliffe; Felixkirk; Yorkshire North Riding1
Settle; Giggleswick; Yorkshire West Riding1
Pontefract; Yorkshire West Riding1
Holderness Wapentake; Yorkshire East Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Women'S Aid Federation England784
National Women'S Aid Federation784
Women'S Aid Federation of England784
Women'S Aid784
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)110
Barry, Michael V (1935-)22
Wright, John T14
Wright, Peter12
Wakelin, Martyn F9
William6

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From 1800166
From 19001324
From 20002120

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189971
Up to 19991374
Up to latest2165
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:
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. 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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1054
c1970
With full references to relevant documents and printed sources including parish registers, wills, Wakefield court rolls, directories and Yorkshire fines.
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1104
20th century
Files, presscuttings, journal reviews, articles and private study notes relating to Europe, Africa, Far East, India, Anglo-Saxon Britain, pottery, querns, vikings
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1144
20th century
Including pedigrees of Bentley, Dinsdale, Palmer. A list of Jackson entries in the Terrington N. Yorkshire parish registers (18-19th century), a list of early settlers in Whatcom County [Washington, U...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1156
1847-1906
Also an additional deposit of 65 photocopy letters.
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1165
1902-1937
Including letters received from F Elgee, W Farrer, FG Simpson, F Villey and R E M Wheeler
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1202
20th century
Consisting of notes, transcripts and photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to Yorkshire history, mainly to Abbotside and Wenleydale, and to the Thwaite(s), Metcalfe and other families ...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1208
1902-1921
Comprising notes and plan of the Leeds area by F Villy nd, traced plan of Castley and Wescoehill 1921, annotated Ordnance Survey maps for Rigton and Wothersome 1902, Alwoodley, Bramham and Newton Kym...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1215
c1970-1979