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Total number of records: 3298

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives3263
Books and printed items29
Art items3
Objects3

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2483
Brotherton Collection234
English Literature218
Feminist Archive North112
Business Archives55
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections14
Art and Antique Market11
Cookery Collection9
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections9

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters123
english poetry79
business records48
textile industry46
english literature41
english fiction24
english drama21
commercial correspondence14
diaries13
education10

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire55
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding30
York; Yorkshire30
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding16
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding13
England7
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding6
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6
Yorkshire West Riding6
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family11
Dorothy Una Clough5
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips5
Dorothy Una Phillips5
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)5
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Blakeston Family4
Thwaite Mills Society4
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)4
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1500188
From 1600352
From 1700433
From 1800927
From 19001310
From 200087

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 159943
Up to 1699165
Up to 1799335
Up to 1899861
Up to 19991574
Up to latest320

Archive Art Collection

Japanese prints

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...

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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Archive Collection

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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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

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...

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