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Total number of records: 166785

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection24370
University Archive13749
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884
Liddle Collection11853
South Bank Show Production Archive9646
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9593
English Literature7268
Business Archives6342
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society6118

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture3258
occupations2581
english language - dialects1987
community life1840
nature1661
popular music1555
letters1507
letter writing1464
agriculture1231
literature (prose)1186

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3669
London, United Kingdom1341
Yorkshire390
Leeds, United Kingdom326
Genoa, Italy291
Lincolnshire168
Essex167
Lancashire158
Somerset149
Norfolk147

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
National Women'S Aid Federation1754
Women'S Aid Federation of England1682
Women'S Aid Federation England1682
Women'S Aid1682
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1532
Opera North1496
English National Opera North1496
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)822

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180032626
From 1900120810
From 200013315

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1991
Up to 5994
Up to 10992
Up to 189921171
Up to 1999112376
Up to latest33197
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:
YAS/MS1277/1-2
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1853/add1
2009
Archive Collection:
FAN/1 in 4
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1952/1
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1956/1
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...
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. 1988/1
1912-2001
Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.
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...