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Registers

Books in Brotherton Room
Introducing the different types of objects researchers in Special Collections can encounter.
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Researcher holding illuminated manuscript
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Dorothy Bosanquet's diary, March 1917
Object types in Special Collections: Diaries
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Letter with pen and ink sketch entitled 'Myself'.
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Whitaker Collection 445 fol/Map of the world
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Andreyev Autochrome
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Newspapers
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Cemetery Register
Object types in Special Collections: Registers
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Literary drafts
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Page from Tony Harrison, The Loiners Notebook
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AntiPoverty Demonstration Flyer
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Brotherton Collection Incunabula CAR Ulm 1480 back pastedown manuscript
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minute books
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Brotherton Ovid - Silenus and a satyr
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Registers are an official record of names or items. They showinformation observed, recorded and measured for the purposes of the organisation. Registers contain tabulated, quantative information, often about large groups of people. Researchers can use this type of information for many different purposes. A single burial register, could provide different information for genealogists, medical or social historians. 

Registers can be read alongside history books and contemporary newspapers; they offer detailed and business-specific information about employment procedures and practices which can give depth to more general sources of an historical period.

Registers, like minute books, are often found in Business Archives. Special Collections holds extensive business archives which include wage ledgers, correspondence, apprentice agreements, maps and plans.

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