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Total number of records: 3425

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Archives3389
Books and printed items30
Art items3
Objects3

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2644
Brotherton Collection232
English Literature212
Feminist Archive North98
Business Archives54
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections13
Art and Antique Market10
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections9
Cookery Collection6

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letters122
english poetry79
business records48
textile industry46
english literature41
english fiction24
english drama21
commercial correspondence14
diaries12
education8

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Yorkshire59
York; Yorkshire32
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding30
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding16
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding14
England7
Yorkshire West Riding6
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding6
Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family10
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)5
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)5
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor5
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)5
Dorothy Una Clough4
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips4

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From 130074
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From 1500187
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From 19001282
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Archive Art Collection:
ART 090
1735-1873
Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...
Archive Collection:
MS/DEP/1979/1
17th-20th century
The Carlton Hill collection of archives contains records of meetings of the Society of Friends for the mid-part of the old West Riding of Yorkshire (now divided between West and North Yorkshire), and ...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD1
1282-1518
A collection of charters bound together in a case. They relate principally to lands, etc., in Acaster Malbis, but there is a deed relating to Chevermunt, and another to Bishopthorpe. Four of the chart...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD476 (Add1)
19th-20th century
Includes family papers relating to the Crossley family including correspondence, valuations, insurance, wills etc. Papers relating to the Wheelwright Family. Papers relating to Mearclough Mill. Pap...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1
1695-1724
Also includes a list of books, and a copy of the "Answer to Priestcraft" written by Thoresby's friend Richard Thornton (see Ducatus Leodiensis p536).
Archive Collection:
YAS/MS1277/1-2
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:
YAS/MS1853/add1
2009
Archive Collection:
FAN/1 in 4
c1986 - 1998
The collection contains organisational papers including journals, minute books, correspondence, training information, legal guidelines and associated material. Files also include extensive reference m...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1952/1
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...