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Total number of records: 38835

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Archives27562
Textiles3514
Books and printed items3053
Art items2467
Coins2194
Objects40
Indexes1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12620
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5868
International Textile Collection3515
University Archive2570
University Art Collection2364
Brotherton Collection2247
Coin Collection2194
Student Newspapers1766
Cookery Collection1759
Liddle Collection1075

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SubjectCount
occupations1359
nature1048
culture844
animals771
agriculture732
buildings668
community life587
implements, utensils etc547
english language - dialects464
cooking, english411

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PlaceCount
England3369
United Kingdom711
Yorkshire382
Japan306
China300
Rome259
Alexandria, Egypt218
Leeds211
Indonesia202
Antioch, Syria194

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4440
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1408
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1123
Hartley, Marie636
Wright, John T555
Marchini, Guido495
Wright, Peter427
Sykes, Donald Richard340
Pesel, Louisa F326
Barry, Michael V (1935-)320

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From 190014950
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Archive Collection

Ripon Cathedral (Dean and Chapter) Archive

Ripon Cathedral Dean and Chapter

12th century - 21st century

The greater part of their accumulated archives was very generously deposited recently in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds by the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. It is hoped that by this ar...

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Carlton Hill Collection

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 ...

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PAPERS RELATING TO ELLAND AND HALIFAX, MOSTLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CROSSLEY AND WHEELWRIGHT FAMILIES

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...

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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...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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DEEDS AND COPYHOLD ADMITTANCES

15th-19th century

Deeds and copyhold admittances, mainly relating to Eggborough, Kelfield, Kellington, Sherwood and Whitley and the families of Awnby [or Anby], Girlington, Jackson, Laycock and Morritt 15th-19th centur...

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PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PAPERS OF KENT FAMILY OF TATEFIELD HALL

18th century-20th century

Including: farm account books of Isaac Denison of Dunkeswick and others 1809-1893 and diary of a farmer recording the weather, events on the farm, payments 1855-1893 (back of diary records accounts re...

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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...

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NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE CRAWSHAW FAMILY OF DEWSBURY AREA, YORK AREA, WOOLLEY, ROYSTON, SHEFFIELD, HALIFAX, NORTH LINCOLSHIRE AND HULL AREAS

c1970

With full references to relevant documents and printed sources including parish registers, wills, Wakefield court rolls, directories and Yorkshire fines.

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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

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Archive Collection

DEEDS MAINLY RELATING TO ASENBY

1720-1818

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

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