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Total number of records: 21176

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3924
Brotherton Collection3767
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive3669
Art and Antique Market1612
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1606
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1477
Quaker Collection1267
Business Archives1210
English Literature1111
Leeds General Cemetery419

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters612
letter539
letter writing505
pre-raphaelites440
poets, english440
family244
drawing243
hymns, english209
genealogy207
poetry187

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy274
London, United Kingdom271
Nice, France32
Beckenham, United Kingdom21
Rome, Italy21
Florence, Italy19
Vienna, Austria18
Paris, France16
Manchester, United Kingdom12
Penzance (England)12

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)1279
Sala, George Augustus427
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)227
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)137
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria66
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)47
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)46
Cowden Clarke, Charles34
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Hogg, Jabez28

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180021136
From 19004
From 200032

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1991
Up to 5994
Up to 10992
Up to 189921169

Archive Collection

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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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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George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire

c1810-1885

The original watercolours for the images published as engravings in 'The Costume of Yorkshire' 1814 in one volume, a volume of engravings from the first edition and an edition of 'The Costume of Yorks...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS: INQUISITIONS

1808-1811

Comprising a volume of copies of Inquisitions relating to the Roos, Salvain and Aldburgh families, (Edward I to Henry VI 1306-1443), original letters from Robert Surtees, pedigrees of Hilton, Conyer...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

nd [19th century]

Comprising a volume of pedigrees of Ashton, Sherwood, Rockley, Saville, Gascoigne and Blakeston some with branches. Index in volume, but the last 10 pedigrees are missing.

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PRINT OF A TRACING OF THE HEADINGLEY TITHE MAP AND TRANSCRIPT OF THE AWARD

(1846)

Transcript of the award omitts acreages and tithes paid

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

1810-1820

Comprising a volume of pedigrees with notes, including Ryther, Suger; Hoghton, Langton; Gerard, Butler, Clitheroe, Balderston, Gascoigne, Tate, Radcliffe, Fitzwilliam, with descent of the Constables ...

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SOKES, THE LEEDS BAKEHOUSE

19th century

Unpublished article by John Holmes

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ANCIENT IRON-STONE PITS

1884

Unpublished article by John Holmes

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THE VICE-ROY EARLS OF NORTHUMBRIA

nd [19th century]

Unpublished article by Frederick Ross

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CIVIL WAR PROCEEDINGS IN YORKSHIRE

19th century

Unpublished transcripts of civil war tracts

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