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Total number of records: 485984

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items218137
Archives174460
People and organisations43563
Indexes42810
Textiles3489
Art items1830
Objects1184
Coins506

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection85469
Liddle Collection33456
English Literature30514
Letters Database22940
Leeds Russian Archive16866
Herbert Read Collection16429
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society13879
University Archive13799
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11884

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185894
culture3280
occupations2590
english poetry2444
english language - dialects1988
community life1844
nature1688
agriculture1687
jews1639
art1631

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain7088
England6004
France3382
Soviet Union1643
London, United Kingdom1351
Rome1052
Europe1015
Russia999
United Kingdom908
Greece834

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4817
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Great Britain2069
Church of England1754
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
Opera North1496
English National Opera North1496
Anonymous1453
Shorter, Clement King1412
Gosse, Edmund1327

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From 1800131977
From 1900276056
From 200016824

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Up to 1899109083
Up to 1999274223
Up to latest42103
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:
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/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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1956/1
1875-1947
Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1973/1
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1988/1
1912-2001
Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.