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Total number of records: 88

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives87
Books and printed items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society43
Feminist Archive North14
Brotherton Collection4
Business Archives4
English Literature3
Art and Antique Market2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Cookery Collection1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Leeds Poetry1

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SubjectCount
business records4
letters4
textile industry3
english literature2
communism1
culture1
displaced persons1
dyes and dyeing1
education1
english language - dialects1

Count of Place

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Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding1
North Yorkshire1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Anderson Family1
Baker Family1
Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances1
Bewick Family1
Blakeston Family1
Blayds Family1
Borthwick, Oliver (1873-1905)1
Bower Family of Bridlington1
British Society For the History of Science1
Brown Family1

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From 160023
From 170014
From 18008
From 190030
From 20003

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Up to 199917
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Archive Collection

Change Collection

1979 – 2004

The collection includes an extensive reference section including collections of periodicals, reports and associated material all grouped together by geographical area, with alphabetic sequences of per...

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TYPESCRIPT ARTICLES BY FRED NORTH RELATING TO HEMINGBROUGH AND GREAT AND LITTLE OUSEBURN

1992-1993

'The Ancient Parish of Hemingbrough', 'Changes in some Yorkshire Villages 1841-1891'

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Women of Westminster

2000-2019

The audio and accompanying transcripts of 49 interviews with mostly female Members of Parliament conducted by then Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, forming research for her book 'Wome...

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Centre for Women and Democracy

Sloane, Nan

7 March 2012

Two subfonds: Challenge and Change project, and papers from CWD. C&C is recorded interviews with women counsellors from Yorkshire and the Humber; CWD contains archive material, associated materials, b...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: GENEALOGICAL PAPERS

1804-1826

Comprising a volume of letters, memoranda etc relating to genealogy, families mentioned are Baker (or Watson), Bewick (or Anderson), Blakeston, Blayds (or Marvel), Fearon (or Brown), Cooke (or Rhod...

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Susan Hyatt

Hyatt, Susan

Women and Pit Closures and Bradford women's community action

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George Caunt, political papers

Caunt, George

c.1950-c.1980

Comprises books, letters, cuttings, papers, diary and draft of unpublished work by George Caunt relating to the Parliamentary Labour Party and the Wilson administration. The papers include candid acc...

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Denise Trickett

Trickett, Denise

30-May-13

10 Years On: Gender Project on Conferences - covers Women, Girls and Education Conference 1987, Changing Our Ways Conference 1988, Keeping the Kettle Boiling Conference 1990, A Gender Agenda Conferenc...

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John Crabtree and Sons Limited, Business Archive

John Crabtree and Sons Limited

1882-1940

One volume contains a few newspaper cuttings from November 1887 about the death of John Crabtree to 1940, the centenary of the company. Manuscript notes on the history of Bradford written in 1882 ha...

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DEEDS, WILLS AND PAPERS RELATING MAINLY TO DONCASTER

16th century-19th century

Box 1: A: 13 documents relating to Doncaster area; late priory of Whtefriars, Hallgate, Baxtergate, St Sepulchregate 1566-1599 B: 5 documents relating to Egleton family of Ellensborough and properti...

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Peter Symes Archive

1987 - 2000

Archive of the director Peter Symes, principally covering his work with Tony Harrison. Symes and Harrison collaborated on several film-poems, including the Loving Memory (1987) series ('Letters in R...

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