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Total number of records: 2909

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Archives2897
Art items7
Books and printed items4

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
University Archive1611
Student Newspapers981
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture300
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society217
Liddle Collection63
Brotherton Collection52
Business Archives29
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections29
English Literature21
Leeds Russian Archive11

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
lgbtq+138
community life125
occupations105
gay101
agriculture83
culture83
nature80
education76
animals73
lesbian70

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Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding7
Yorkshire3
Ossett; Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
Kirkby Ravensworth; Yorkshire North Riding1
Knottingley; Pontefract; Yorkshire West Riding1
Kippax; Yorkshire West Riding1
Keighley; Yorkshire West Riding1
Harrogate; Bilton; Knaresborough; Yorkshire West Riding1
Holderness Wapentake; Yorkshire East Riding1
London, United Kingdom1

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

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From 170083
From 1800166
From 19001324
From 20001336

Count of Latest date

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Up to 17997
Up to 1899106
Up to 19991414
Up to latest1382

Archive Collection

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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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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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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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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COLLECTION OF PRESS CUTTINGS, AND ARTICLES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS COLLECTED BY B G CAMPBELL

20th century

Files, presscuttings, journal reviews, articles and private study notes relating to Europe, Africa, Far East, India, Anglo-Saxon Britain, pottery, querns, vikings

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PAPERS RELATING TO LEDSHAM SCHOOL (LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' FOUNDATION)

1739-1949

Includes: registers 1749-1831 and 1833-1949; accounts 1739-1810, 1837-1874; housekeepers' accounts 1770-1771, 1816-1817; accounts and vouchers for the building of the new schoolhouse 1739; examiners' ...

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PEDIGREES AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES COMPILED BY MEMBERS OF THE YAS FAMILY HISTORY SECTION

20th century

Including pedigrees of Bentley, Dinsdale, Palmer. A list of Jackson entries in the Terrington N. Yorkshire parish registers (18-19th century), a list of early settlers in Whatcom County [Washington, U...

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PHOTOCOPIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO RELATIONS IN AMERICA

1847-1906

Also an additional deposit of 65 photocopy letters.

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