Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 244 records

Total number of records: 244

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives240
Art items2
Books and printed items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society183
Brotherton Collection33
University Archive9
Student Newspapers6
English Literature6
Business Archives5
University Art Collection2
Medical Collections1
Quaker Collection1
Joseph Wood Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
textile industry5
letters5
business records3
manuscripts, english -- 17th century -- texts.1
jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
lectures and lecturing1
politicians1
woollen and worsted manufacture1
thirty years' war, 1618-16481
textile workers1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire8
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding5
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding3
Kirkby Malzeard; Yorkshire West Riding3
Ossett; Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
Bridlington; Yorkshire East Riding2
Eshton; Gargrave; Yorkshire West Riding2
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding2
Aysgarth; Yorkshire North Riding2
Great Ayton; Yorkshire North Riding2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Russell, John2
Marshall Family1
Legard Family, Fl 16th Cent-18th Cent, of Northumberland1
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde1
Radcliffe Family1
Jaggard, Isaac (1627)1
Marshall, John (1765-1845)1
Heminge, John (1556-1630)1
Goodwin Family1
Godfrey Family1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 150058
From 160073
From 170042
From 180070
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16998
Up to 179950
Up to 1899186

Archive Collection

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...

More details


Archive Collection

DEEDS RELATING TO HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE AND TO CATTLE GATES ON THE MOOR

1572-1861

Includes inventory of Oswald Clark of Horton 16th century; enclosure award for Horton [Selside, Shaw Park and Lamb Pasture] 1791; steward's account book, Thomas Heselden for the Rev Dr Thomas Wilson o...

More details


Archive Collection

DEEDS RELATING MAINLY TO RAWMARSH AND ROTHERHAM

17th century-18th century

Includes nine deeds relating to Lamb Close, Rawmarsh 1783-1798 and probate of will of Mary Beale of Rotherham, 23 Feb 1714/5 and will of Francis Denner of Rawmarsh, 27 Aug 1770

More details


Archive Collection

DEEDS MAINLY RELATING TO ASENBY

1720-1818

Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe

More details


Archive Collection

STAVELEY OF NORTH STAINLEY COLLECTION

1558-1832

Relating to Austhorpe, Bingley, Carlton Miniott, Copt Hewick, Darley, Grewelthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard, Littlethorpe, Masham, Mickley, Ripon (hospital of St John the Baptist), North Stainley, Staveley, S...

More details


Archive Collection

MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND PAPERS

1739-1814

Comprising petition from the citizens of Halifax against the repeal of the act establishing a court of requests for the collection of small debts n.d. [1776]; deeds of George Wood and John Broadhead r...

More details


Archive Collection

DEEDS RELATING TO HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE

17th century-19th century

Relating to Heseldon or Heseltine family of Brackenbottom, Horton-in-Ribblesdale and Sothwell, Nottinghamshire

More details


Archive Collection

DEEDS

1606-1813

Relating to properties at Hambleton and Mount St John, near Thirsk, Feliskirk and Marderby, Thirlby, Ravensthorpe (par. Feliskirk), Boltby and Hesketh, Cold Kirby, Aiscough, Hudswell, Brompton-on-Swal...

More details


Archive Collection

SKIPTON CASTLE COLLECTION (ADDITIONAL DEPOSIT)

17th-19th century

Includes: Court books for Skipton manor 1847-1882, honour 1825-1882 and manors of Eshton 1741-1764, Gargrave 1761, Silsden 1752-1882, Stirton with Thorlby 1753-1882 Field books for Skipton 1757, Sils...

More details


Archive Collection

MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND WILLS

1797-1889

Relating to Askrigg, Barnsley, Brampton, Dale Town in the parish of Hawnby, Darfield, Doncaster, Guiseley, Kellington, Keyston [Huntingdonshire], Kirkheaton, Lavenham [Suffolk], Leeds, Little Mitton [...

More details


Archive Collection

WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: YORKSHIRE COLLECTIONS

1827

Comprising a small book lettered "Radcliffe, Yorkshire Collections". It contains a number of extracts from Dodsworth's mss, monumental inscriptions in Featherstone Church and extracts from the pari...

More details