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Total number of records: 1060

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1052
Art items5
Books and printed items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
University Archive500
Student Newspapers461
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture300
Liddle Collection61
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society46
Brotherton Collection12
English Literature7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections6
Leeds Russian Archive5
Womens Aid Federation of England Archive4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life125
occupations105
lgbtq+102
gay95
agriculture83
culture83
nature80
education76
animals73
lesbian65

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Holderness Wapentake; Yorkshire East Riding1
Meaux; Wawne; Yorkshire East Riding1
Florence (Italy)1
Escrick; Yorkshire East Riding1
Batley; Yorkshire West Riding1
East Riding of Yorkshire1
Ethiopia1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)110
Barry, Michael V (1935-)22
Wright, John T14
Wright, Peter12
Wakelin, Martyn F9
Sykes, Donald Richard6
William6
Siporin, Rae Lee5
Dyson, Wilsey5
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4

Count of Earliest date

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From 19001059
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18991
Up to 19991059

Archive Collection

Archive Collection

PAPERS OF W HORNSBY, SALTBURN, INCLUDING LETTERS AND PAMPHLETS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOPICS

1902-1937

Including letters received from F Elgee, W Farrer, FG Simpson, F Villey and R E M Wheeler

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ARCHAEOLOGIAL PAPERS OF F G SIMPSON

1902-1921

Comprising notes and plan of the Leeds area by F Villy nd, traced plan of Castley and Wescoehill 1921, annotated Ordnance Survey maps for Rigton and Wothersome 1902, Alwoodley, Bramham and Newton Kym...

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES

1970-1981

Including Beever, Burhouse, Busfield, Clapham, Ferrand, Grace, Hardwicke, Hobson, Jubb, Longhorn, Oates, Paley, Richmond, Stevenson and Talbot, notes relating to Hainsworth, Johnson, Pickles, Tebbet ...

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PAPERS OF MARY CHITTY (NEE KITSON CLARK)

Kitson Clark, Mary (1905-2005)

1920-1960

Comprising correspondence, notes, photographs and other papers mainly relating to archaeological topics, notably to the activities of the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological So...

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PHOTOGRAPHS AND NOTES BY SIDNEY JACKSON RELATING TO CELTIC AND OTHER STONE HEADS

1960-1979

The collection contains well over 1000 identified photographs of stone heads, mainly from the West Riding. There are also numberous examples drawn from all over the country, some belonging to muneum c...

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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREES

1979-1980

Related to families including Alty, Atkinson, Bateson, Bayne, Bonwell, Copley, Fish, Hall, Ireland, Iveson, Leach, Lumb, Nicholson, Oates, Owston, Palmes, Pollard, Pontefract, Scarr, Scott, Stead, T...

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GENEALOGICAL NOTES RELATING TO THE STOTT FAMILY OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE BY B TOOLE-STOTT

1970s-1980s

Includes extracts and pedigrees 15th century-20th century

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Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers

Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)

c.1900-1980

Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...

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