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Total number of records: 445829

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items181758
Archives179772
Indexes43066
People and organisations34234
Textiles3578
Art items1855
Objects1221
Coins341

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection76818
Liddle Collection33574
Letters Database31869
English Literature24482
Leeds Russian Archive17034
Herbert Read Collection16412
University Archive13969
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11885
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10890

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185900
culture3283
occupations2590
english poetry2119
english language - dialects1991
community life1845
nature1684
art1662
popular music1565
letters1541

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England6047
Great Britain5062
France2628
Soviet Union1645
London, United Kingdom1348
Russia983
United Kingdom928
Rome826
Germany748
Greece735

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4619
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
National Women'S Aid Federation3556
Women'S Aid3484
Women'S Aid Federation England3484
Women'S Aid Federation of England3484
Shorter, Clement King2146
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-19682061
Gosse, Edmund1758
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1534

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800136806
From 1900287440
From 200021515

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 994
Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
Up to 8992
Up to 9992
Up to 10992
Up to 15993
Up to 17992
Up to 189998998
Up to 1999286182
Up to latest48145

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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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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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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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching Archive

Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

1912-2001

Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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