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Total number of records: 502725

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items231854
Archives164379
Indexes50299
People and organisations43303
Coins6161
Textiles3722
Art items1786
Objects1216

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection98061
Liddle Collection33200
Letters Database32175
English Literature30573
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society23930
Herbert Read Collection16291
Leeds Russian Archive15316
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12770
University Archive11721
Quaker Collection11576

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19185648
culture3228
occupations2592
english poetry2471
english language - dialects1986
society of friends1857
community life1835
agriculture1718
nature1689
art1625

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain8242
England5873
France4002
Rome2098
Soviet Union1495
London, United Kingdom1339
Europe1211
United Kingdom956
Greece910
Russia869

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4527
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4107
Anonymous2648
Great Britain2341
Shorter, Clement King2147
Church of England2124
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-19682061
Gosse, Edmund1758
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1688
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533

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Earliest dateCount
From earliest1251
From 100698
From 2001126
From 300955
From 400115
From 500212
From 600140
From 70052
From 80056
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From 1000328
From 1100597
From 1200938
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From 15007961
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From 1900254042
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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

CARTULARIUM ACASTRENSE VOLUME 1

1282-1518

A collection of charters bound together in a case. They relate principally to lands, etc., in Acaster Malbis, but there is a deed relating to Chevermunt, and another to Bishopthorpe. Four of the chart...

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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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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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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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