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Total number of records: 44

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Archives43
Books and printed items1

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection19
English Literature18
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7
Art and Antique Market2
Business Archives1
Cookery Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Liddle Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters13
english poetry7
english literature5
english drama3
english fiction3
art, english2
folklore2
french literature2
animism1
anthropology1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)3
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)2
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)2
Abercrombie Family1
Abercrombie, Catherine1
Abercrombie, Ralph (1883-1957)1
Alston, Lucy (1910-1996)1
Alston, William (1880-1958)1
Astbury, William Thomas (1898-1961)1
Baron Brotherton1

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Archive Collection

NOTES ON THE HEWITT FAMILY OF OSSETT

No date

With copies of nineteenth-century correspondence to family members in America and Australia

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VALUATION OF ESTATES IN YORK AND GREEN HAMMERTON BELONGING TO ROBERT SINCLAIR

1853-1928

With covering letter, 9 September 1928, from Cecil Hawkins

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LIST OF SOME INHABITANTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS IN WENSLEYDALE 1750-1836

20th century

With entries from Aysgarth parish registers relating to the Willis family 1710-1928 and other notes compiled by H J Willis 1929-1934

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THE TRAGIC SIDE OF CHILD LIFE IN HOLBECK, AS SEEN BY A SCHOOLMASTER

c1928-1929

Account by G K Sanderson, headmaster at Prince's Field school, Holbeck, c1928

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PAPERS RELATING TO FRANK ELGEE'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK

1920s-1930s

Consisting of diary of work at Eston Nab 1927-1929, field notebook 1928-1929, and miscellaneous notes, drawings and photographs relating to archaeological sites and finds, mostly pre-historic.

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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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Richard Platt and Roger Fiske (musicologists) Archive

Platt, Richard

1910-2006

A collection of music scores, mainly eighteenth-century British publications, formed by the musicologists Roger Fiske (1910-1987) and Richard Platt (1928-2013); also includes a small number of books o...

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Archive Print Collection

Fiske-Platt

A collection of music scores, mainly eighteenth-century British publications, formed by the musicologists Roger Fiske (1910-1987) and Richard Platt (born 1928); also includes a small number of books o...

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Robert Spence, 1905-1976, papers and correspondence

1931-1977

Comprises mainly recollections by colleagues. There are a few items relating to Spence's early career including his report of his tenure of the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship at Princeton, 1928-1931. Mo...

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Isabella Augusta Gregory, original autograph manuscript of 'The golden apple', with related correspondence with Lord Brotherton.

Gregory, Lady

1913-1928

Comprises 2 notebooks containing the original autograph manuscript of Lady Gregory's play 'The golden apple', dated 1913, together with correspondence between Lord Brotherton and Lady Gregory concerni...

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PLANS, DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHURCHES, HOUSES, STANDING STONES, CROSSES, COATS OF ARMS AND SEALS

18th century-20th century

Including plans of the churches of Eyryholme, Holme upon Spalding Moor, Wakefield, All Saints and Wycliffe 1850-1928. Drawings of Barningham (cross), Carnaby (inscription), Gargrave (arms), Jervaulx ...

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Edward Ripley and Son, Business Archive

Edward Ripley and Son; Ripley, Henry William; Ripley, Edward

1831-1950

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Large colle...

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