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Total number of records: 165698

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Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection24370
University Archive13749
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884
Liddle Collection11850
South Bank Show Production Archive9646
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9593
English Literature7262
Business Archives6342
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society6118

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

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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
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1532
Opera North1496
English National Opera North1496
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)822
National Women'S Aid Federation682
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)675
Women'S Aid Federation of England610
Women'S Aid Federation England610

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Up to 189921169
Up to 1999112371
Up to latest32117

Archive Collection

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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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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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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INCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP [CARDINAL] WOLSEY BY A HAMILTON THOMPSON,

20th century

Original is at Borthwick Institute, York

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Archive Collection

PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF AN UNIDENTIFIED BUILDING AT BECKWITHSHAW

20th century

Probably a conjectural reconstruction of Tatefield Hall

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