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Total number of records: 424488

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items179545
Archives165609
Indexes39062
People and organisations33691
Textiles3405
Art items1744
Objects1168
Coins260

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection73484
Liddle Collection33446
English Literature23880
Letters Database22490
Leeds Russian Archive16838
Herbert Read Collection16405
University Archive13792
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10357

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185893
culture3280
occupations2590
english poetry2108
english language - dialects1988
community life1844
nature1683
art1569
popular music1565
letters1522

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England5798
Great Britain4958
France2215
Soviet Union1620
London, United Kingdom1347
Russia956
United Kingdom904
Rome825
Germany740
Greece734

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4595
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
Opera North1496
English National Opera North1496
Great Britain1448
Shorter, Clement King1412
Gosse, Edmund1327
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1202
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800131851
From 1900275776
From 200016794

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 993
Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
Up to 8992
Up to 9991
Up to 10992
Up to 15993
Up to 17992
Up to 189996632
Up to 1999273545
Up to latest41970

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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