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Total number of records: 254178

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives107348
Books and printed items103546
Indexes35891
People and organisations3019
Textiles1848
Art items1348
Objects1110
Coins65

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection47055
Liddle Collection32968
Letters Database21680
English Literature15708
Herbert Read Collection15420
Leeds Russian Archive14511
University Archive11092
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10236
Cookery Collection6380
South Bank Show Production Archive5002

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185180
culture3218
occupations2584
english language - dialects1980
community life1829
nature1670
english poetry1490
art1378
agriculture1316
buildings1221

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England4839
Great Britain2392
Soviet Union1406
France1267
London, United Kingdom1048
Russia633
United Kingdom497
Iceland430
Rome414
Germany389

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3028
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-19682061
Shorter, Clement King1599
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1460
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1089
Gosse, Edmund994
English National Opera North982
Opera North982

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1900254042
From 2000121

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
Up to 8992
Up to 9991
Up to 10992
Up to 15993
Up to 17991
Up to 189939
Up to 1999254075

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

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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Archive Collection

Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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Archive Collection

PAPERS RELATING TO THE HALL FAMILY OF DUNNINGTON, LILLING AND LEVENTHORPE

[20th century]

Mainly extracts from registers and pedigrees etc; includes copy discharge and further mortgage on property of Joseph Fisher in Cumberworth, Soyland, Lighthazles, Lockwood, Almondbury and Crosland 1729...

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Archive Collection

INCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP [CARDINAL] WOLSEY BY A HAMILTON THOMPSON,

20th century

Original is at Borthwick Institute, York

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Archive Collection