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Total number of records: 190068

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection26404
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society22472
University Archive13913
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11885
Liddle Collection11863
South Bank Show Production Archive9647
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9595
English Literature7306
Business Archives6553

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture3259
occupations2581
english language - dialects1987
community life1840
nature1661
letters1568
popular music1555
letter writing1469
agriculture1233
animals1190

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3671
London, United Kingdom1283
Yorkshire434
Leeds, United Kingdom314
Genoa, Italy293
Lincolnshire170
Essex167
Lancashire158
Somerset149
Norfolk148

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1532
English National Opera North1496
Opera North1496
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)822
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)675
National Women'S Aid Federation607
Wright, John T571
Women'S Aid535

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From 16006811
From 17008761
From 180032623
From 1900120588
From 200012221

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
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Up to 189923106
Up to 1999112869
Up to latest32185

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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CARTULARIUM ACASTRENSE VOLUME 1

1282-1518

A collection of charters bound together in a case. They relate principally to lands, etc., in Acaster Malbis, but there is a deed relating to Chevermunt, and another to Bishopthorpe. Four of the chart...

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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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COPY LETTERS FROM RALPH THORESBY TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS

1695-1724

Also includes a list of books, and a copy of the "Answer to Priestcraft" written by Thoresby's friend Richard Thornton (see Ducatus Leodiensis p536).

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Stone heads index

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...

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1 in 4 Collection

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...

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Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

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...

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