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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

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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Archive Object Collection

Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden

Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)

2000 BCE-1940

This collection includes jewellery, beads, ornaments, seals, coins, pottery, cuneiform tablets, facsimilie objects and glass slides. Many items are said to be from Ur, ancient Mesopotamian (now Iraq)...

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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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