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Total number of records: 799

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives788
Books and printed items8
Art items2
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society549
English Literature86
Brotherton Collection78
Feminist Archive North22
Leeds Poetry10
Business Archives6
Art and Antique Market5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4
Liddle Collection3
Medical Collections2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters42
english poetry36
english literature14
english drama11
english fiction7
textile industry7
business records6
education5
diaries5
scrapbooks4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3
Yorkshire2
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding2
Lockington; Yorkshire East Riding2
York; Yorkshire2
Scorton; Catterick; Yorkshire North Riding1
Sawley In Bowland; Yorkshire West Riding1
Scotland1
Morley; Batley; Yorkshire West Riding1
Meaux; Wawne; Yorkshire East Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Todd, Ruthven (1914-1978)2
Glover, Jon2
Dorothy Una Clough2
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips2
Dorothy Una Phillips2
Haffenden, John2
Hamilton, Ian2
Moraes, Dom2
Potts, Paul2
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1900798
From 20001

Archive Collection

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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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

Archive Collection

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES SECTION: PLANS, SECTIONS, DRAWINGS AND NOTES RELATING TO EXCAVATION AT ALDBOROUGH

1934-1938

Relating to an excavation by J N L Myres and others

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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES SECTION: PLANS SECTIONS AND REPORT OF AN EXCAVATION AT GISBURN

1940

Relating to Bomber Camp and Hesketh Roughs Ridges excavations by R C Musson

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