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Total number of records: 27613

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives15575
Books and printed items10827
Indexes976
Textiles148
Art items44
People and organisations26
Objects15
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection7925
English Literature3133
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2456
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1609
Leeds Poetry1158
Liddle Collection855
Herbert Read Collection845
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive772
Letters Database771
Medical Collections704

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
occupations831
culture596
nature499
letter writing474
implements, utensils etc461
community life441
agriculture407
art education394
animals353
english language - dialects315

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England1163
Great Britain484
London, United Kingdom330
Yorkshire226
France213
Rome125
Italy98
Greece90
Lincolnshire86
Leeds, United Kingdom74

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)695
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)395
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)375
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)367
Wright, Peter240
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)238
Great Britain159
Church of England143
Crossley-Holland, Kevin133
Horace118

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 130034
From 1400147
From 1500322
From 16001439
From 17002936
From 18006455
From 190015410
From 2000869

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 10991
Up to 139914
Up to 1499141
Up to 1599260
Up to 16991294
Up to 17992672
Up to 18995838
Up to 199915446
Up to latest1944

Archive Collection

Case and lecture notes (including survey data, experiments and exercises)

1700-1949

This artificial collection encompasses individual and groups of manuscripts documenting research conducted by specific people. Subjects include medicine, physics, chemistry and botany. Similar materia...

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Archive Series

Laboratory note-books

1943-1955

A series of laboratory note-books, as originally numbered, some missing

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Archive Sub-series

Archive File

“Notes”

1850-1950

For Evan Charteris, The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse; MS; with covering note; 6 leaves

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Archive Item

Note

1712

Note of House of Commons order regarding Seamer [?] book list. Receipt for payment of 'History of Yorkshhire' from Lyonell Copley.

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Archive Item

Note

10th Aug 1820

Note from McMarley of Adams and Baker to Mr Bligh to request preparation of lease of the foundry occupied by Benjamin Copley. No date.

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Archive File

Notes

1914-1918

Notes on French propaganda. John Maclaren (Research Corresp.).

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Archive File

Notes

January 1918

Notes on Salvage Work issued by Quarter-Master General

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Archive File

Note

13 Oct 1652

John Hutton to Mr Blackburne “Henry Blackburne did satisfy me of your willingness to furnish me with moneys yf it has beene in your power at that time These lines are to intarate [?] you that if yo...

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Archive File

Notes

1914-1918

Notes on the employment of "Tanks" by Col. E.D. Swinton.

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Archive File

Notes

April-October 1917

Notes on tank operations, April-October 1917.

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Archive File

Notes

1914-1918

Notes on tank and infantry training.

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