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Total number of records: 165698

Top 10: Collection group

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

Top 10: Subject

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

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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
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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From 180032624
From 1900120800
From 200012240

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Up to 1991
Up to 5994
Up to 10992
Up to 189921169
Up to 1999112371
Up to latest32117

Archive Collection

PAPERS RELATING TO ELLAND AND HALIFAX, MOSTLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CROSSLEY AND WHEELWRIGHT FAMILIES

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...

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Stone heads index

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...

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1 in 4 Collection

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...

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Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

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...

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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

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...

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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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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching Archive

Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

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.

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

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...

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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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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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