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Total number of records: 533376

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items238146
Archives187060
People and organisations53084
Indexes46460
Textiles3540
Coins2052
Art items1840
Objects1189

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection97984
Liddle Collection33452
English Literature32998
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society24107
Letters Database22964
Leeds Russian Archive16867
Herbert Read Collection16427
University Archive13799
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Quaker Collection11997

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185895
culture3280
occupations2592
english poetry2582
english language - dialects1988
society of friends1848
community life1845
agriculture1722
nature1689
jews1681

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain8507
England6039
France3568
Soviet Union1646
London, United Kingdom1351
Rome1205
Europe1116
Russia1011
United Kingdom909
Greece872

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4832
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Anonymous2647
Great Britain2378
Church of England2123
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1701
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
Opera North1496
English National Opera North1496
Catholic Church1440

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Archive Collection

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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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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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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DEEDS AND COPYHOLD ADMITTANCES

15th-19th century

Deeds and copyhold admittances, mainly relating to Eggborough, Kelfield, Kellington, Sherwood and Whitley and the families of Awnby [or Anby], Girlington, Jackson, Laycock and Morritt 15th-19th centur...

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Lease for 20 years

1795

1. Annie Davison Bland and others 2. Charles Smith of Scolcoates and John Clayton of Kippax

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RALPH THORESBY'S CORRESPONDENCE, VOLUME 5

1716-1723

Microfilm copy available.

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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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