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Total number of records: 478845

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items227521
Archives158361
Indexes50185
People and organisations35481
Textiles3146
Art items1781
Objects1205
Coins1160

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection95115
Liddle Collection33200
Letters Database32153
English Literature30545
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society19605
Herbert Read Collection16288
Leeds Russian Archive15313
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
University Archive11721
Quaker Collection11563

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185648
culture3228
occupations2591
english poetry2466
english language - dialects1986
society of friends1853
community life1835
agriculture1705
nature1689
art1624

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain8185
England5869
France3966
Soviet Union1495
London, United Kingdom1339
Rome1132
Europe1083
United Kingdom921
Russia867
Greece855

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4104
Anonymous2618
Great Britain2333
Shorter, Clement King2146
Church of England2106
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-19682061
Gosse, Edmund1758
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1688
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 160032054
From 170061542
From 1800131071
From 1900254042
From 2000121

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 997
Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
Up to 8992
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Up to 169926398
Up to 179953440
Up to 1899112001
Up to 1999286933

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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Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive

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...

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Archive Collection

Ralph Abercrombie correspondence

Abercrombie Family

1928-1969

Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...

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Archive Object Collection

Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden

Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)

2000 BCE-1940

This collection includes jewellery, beads, ornaments, seals, coins, pottery, cuneiform tablets, facsimilie objects and glass slides. Many items are said to be from Ur, ancient Mesopotamian (now Iraq)...

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