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Total number of records: 223872

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	95567
Archives	89411
Indexes	32949
People and organisations	2327
Textiles	1275
Art items	1262
Objects	1063
Coins	15

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	41462
Liddle Collection	31707
Letters Database	16422
Herbert Read Collection	14767
English Literature	13429
Leeds Russian Archive	13375
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	10199
University Archive	9930
Cookery Collection	5716
Business Archives	4700

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
world war, 1914-1918	4980
culture	3199
occupations	2583
english language - dialects	1978
community life	1824
nature	1666
agriculture	1314
english poetry	1309
art	1213
buildings	1201

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
England	4477
Great Britain	2097
Soviet Union	1316
London, United Kingdom	1039
France	974
Russia	541
United Kingdom	443
Iceland	429
Rome	400
Yorkshire	376

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	2383
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	1532
Shorter, Clement King	1272
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)	1198
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)	1039
Crossley-Holland, Kevin	991
Gosse, Edmund	857
Thwaite, Anthony	724
Ransome, Arthur	687
English National Opera North	597

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1900	223736
From 2000	121

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	1
Up to 199	1
Up to 299	41
Up to 399	1
Up to 599	11
Up to 899	2
Up to 999	1
Up to 1099	2
Up to 1599	3
Up to 1799	1
Up to 1899	38
Up to 1999	223770

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1277/1-2

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...

Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Abercrombie (1)

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

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

Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden

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)

Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

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/MS1003

PHOTOGRAPHS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF H J STRICKLAND RELATING TO AN EXCAVATION AT ROOMER NEAR MASHAM

1945-1947

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1004

PHOTOGRAPHS AND SECTIONS OF AN EXCAVATION AT HORTON IN CRAVEN BY R C MUSSON

1945

Includes related letter, 1949

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1005

PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PLAN AND ELEVATION OF KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE WITH PLANS AND SECTIONS OF A SALLY-PORT BY C A RIDLEY

1925

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1007

PAPERS OF B W J KENT: NOTES AND FIELDBOOK OF AN EXCAVATION AT ALDBOROUGH BY S C BARBER