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Total number of records: 106

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society66
Leeds Russian Archive10
University Archive5
Business Archives4
English Literature3
Brotherton Collection2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters6
education2
textile industry2
prints, english1
nobel prizes1
politics1
refugees, political1
scholars, assistance to1
woolen and worsted manufacture1
russians1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Ganton; Yorkshire East Riding5
Sawley; Ripon; Yorkshire West Riding1
Yorkshire1
Sherburn; Yorkshire East Riding1
Staxton; Willerby; Yorkshire East Riding1
Rillington; Yorkshire East Riding1
West Heslerton; Yorkshire East Riding1
London1
East Heslerton; West Heslerton; Yorkshire East Riding1
Armley; Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Jones, John Harry (1881-1973)2
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)2
Gott Family2
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)2
Legard Family, Fl 16th Cent-18th Cent, of Northumberland1
Pybus, Rodney (1938-)1
Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)1
Todd, Ruthven (1914-1978)1
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1
Hopps, John1

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From 190035

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Up to 189913
Up to 199960
Up to latest11

Archive Sub-collection

Part 1: Collective Exhibitions

1964-1978

This first part of a complete catalogue refers to collective exhibitions; further parts will deal. with one-man exhibitions, a picture lending scheme and other matters.

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Settlements

1722-1792

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DEEDS FOR BRIERLEY

14th century-20th century

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Yorkshire Schools' Exploring Society, papers

1967-1988

These papers were very kindly deposited in the Brotherton Library by the Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society, through the good offices of Mr D Horton, in July 1989. The Society was founded in 1964 and...

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Various places deeds

1199-1719

Relate to Haddockstone grange, Leathley, Farnley and Waltonhead, Nidderdale, Penhil, Rawden, Leeds, Tadcaster, Spofforth, Waltonhead, Wetherby Also includes: Letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I a...

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Pudsay family of Bolton by Bowland and Barforth on Tees, miscellaneous items

12th century-19th century

Including negatives of illustrations of seals and deeds in the Pudsay collection printed in the YAS Record Series, Vol 56; notebooks with the names of persons and places occurring in the deeds (MD1...

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BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (2)

1916, 1922-2016

I A Bunin letters, postcards, telegrams, etc to V N Bunina (294, 1922-1947) (also diary note on Riga hotel headed paper, [2 May 1938] /154/; unfinished letter to G N Kuznetsova (21 August 1928) /170/)...

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BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (1)

1920-1953

I A Bunin's so-called 'Paris Archive' was mostly created between the writer's emigration from Russia in 1920 and his death in Paris in 1953. Its main features are literary manuscripts, typescripts and...

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BUNINA, Vera Nikolaevna (1881-1961) (1)

1920-1961

V N Bunina's archive dates almost entirely from the period between her emigration from Russia in 1920 and her death in 1961. It comprises her literary works, notes, diaries, personal documents, corres...

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ZUROV, Leonid Fedorovich (1902-1971)

1905-2013

A photograph of L F Zurov taken in about 1905 is the oldest item in this collection, while the most recent items include papers and other personal effects found in his wallet after his death. The majo...

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