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Total number of records: 244323

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items102341
Archives101823
Indexes33094
People and organisations2947
Textiles1719
Art items1312
Objects1067
Coins17

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection45433
Liddle Collection32850
Letters Database16566
English Literature15463
Herbert Read Collection15415
Leeds Russian Archive14379
University Archive11037
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10234
Cookery Collection6353
South Bank Show Production Archive5001

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185174
culture3218
occupations2584
english language - dialects1980
community life1828
nature1670
english poetry1484
art1332
agriculture1316
buildings1216

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England4721
Great Britain2333
Soviet Union1390
London, United Kingdom1048
France1032
Russia621
United Kingdom477
Iceland430
Rome413
Germany387

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3020
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533
Shorter, Clement King1272
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1169
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1089
English National Opera North983
Opera North983
Gosse, Edmund857
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)785

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1900244186
From 2000122

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
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 17991
Up to 189938
Up to 1999244221
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1277/1-2
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...
Archive Collection:
FAN/1 in 4
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (1)
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...
Archive Object Collection:
OBJ 1
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)...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Bennett (1)
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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD100
[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...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1002
20th century
Original is at Borthwick Institute, York
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1004
1945
Includes related letter, 1949
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1006
20th century