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Total number of records: 309245

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives143998
Books and printed items112038
Indexes36105
People and organisations11972
Textiles2384
Art items1503
Objects1143
Coins99

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection50767
Liddle Collection33346
Letters Database21901
English Literature18845
Leeds Russian Archive16235
Herbert Read Collection15559
University Archive13165
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11885
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10801
South Bank Show Production Archive9647

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185434
culture3272
occupations2584
english language - dialects1984
community life1840
nature1671
english poetry1613
popular music1563
art1476
agriculture1320

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England5238
Great Britain2774
Soviet Union1582
France1333
London, United Kingdom1061
Russia804
Germany545
United Kingdom510
Rome447
Iceland434

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3787
National Women'S Aid Federation3556
Women'S Aid3484
Women'S Aid Federation England3484
Women'S Aid Federation of England3484
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-19682061
Shorter, Clement King1599
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1534
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1534
English National Opera North1496

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From 1900287632
From 200021545

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Latest dateCount
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Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
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Up to 189939
Up to 1999254249
Up to latest47120

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 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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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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