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Total number of records: 53780

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Indexes41418
Books and printed items7537
Archives4822
Art items2
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Quaker Collection53780
Joseph Wood Collections629
Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
society of friends1796
quakers345
quaker church buildings272
tithes158
christian life117
persecution90
freedom of religion60
dissenters, religious59
churches, quaker55
theology, doctrinal54

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Leeds3107
Bradford1446
Brighouse1052
Rawdon949
Halifax757
Settle642
Bentham630
Skipton486
Huddersfield409
Salterforth376

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Society of Friends775
Fox, George (1624-1691)313
Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting279
Penn, William (1644-1718)270
Whitehead, George (1636?-1723)163
Wood, Joseph (1750-1821)111
Burrough, Edward (1633-1663)110
Penington, Isaac (1616-1679)106
Barclay, Robert (1648-1690)89
Naylor, James (1617?-1660)84

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From earliest8
From 15005
From 16002937
From 17002633
From 18003866
From 19002357
From 2000199

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 998
Up to 15994
Up to 16992618
Up to 17992357
Up to 18993737
Up to 19992810
Up to latest471

Archive Collection

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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Society of Friends Peace Committee related papers and other peace movements collected by Joseph Sturge

Sturge, Joseph (1818-1874)

1850-1927

Comprises letters, reports, press cuttings, pamphlets and other material concerned with peace movements in Britain from before the outbreak of the First World War until the 1920s

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Joseph Wood Archive

Wood, Joseph (1750-1821); Ashbridge, Elizabeth (1713-1755)

23 Mar 1661-1840

The collection includes 100 notebooks written by Wood from 1767-1821. There are 63 large notebooks and 37 small ones. In his notebooks Wood recorded his ministry and copied his letters. A prolific ...

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Clifford Street Collection

17th century-21st century

The Clifford Street, York, collection of archives contains records of the meetings of the Society of Friends in Yorkshire at two levels. First, Records of the county-wide Quarterly Meeting (since 1...

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Archive Print Collection

Birkbeck Library

Originally formed by Morris Birkbeck (1734-1816), and was deposited by the Yorkshire General Meeting in 1981. It consists of over 4,500 books both by and about the Quakers, most of the materials datin...

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Archive Print Collection

Society of Friends Collection

Quaker history and biography. Includes long runs of the Annual Monitor (Quaker obituaries), the Journal of the Friends Historical Society, and the proceedings of London Yearly Meeting.

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Ford and Pease Family Manuscripts

Ford Family; Pease Family

1827-1963

Manuscript items relating to the Ford and Pease families, including photographs, portraits, scrapbooks, accounts, drawings, misellaneous verse and letters.

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Leeds Friends Old Library

One of two important collections assembled by Yorkshire Quakers and housed by the Brotherton Library, the other being the Birkbeck Library. The collection had formed the meeting library for about 150 ...

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Adel

19th century-21st century

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Ackworth

1816-1978

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Airton

1624-21st century

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Askwith

1666-2015

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