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Total number of records: 113

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Archives110
Books and printed items3

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society81
Brotherton Collection10
English Literature8
Leeds Poetry2
ApIvor Collection1
Business Archives1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Medical Collections1

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letters8
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textile industry2
aeronautics1
aircraft accidents1
alanbrooke, alan brooke, viscount, 1883-19631
arts1
bacteriology1
business records1

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Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)2
Gawsworth, John2
Alderson, David1
Alice Violet Robson1
Andrews, Linton (1886-1972)1
Arthurs, Jack1
Astley, Neil1
Ayton, Michael1
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)1
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1

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Archive Collection

Opera North programmes and photographs, collected by Professor Rushton

Opera North

1984-2011

Box 1: Programmes 1979- winter 1984/5; Box 2: Programmes Spring 1985- Autumn 1993; Box 3: Programmes Winter 1993-Spring 1996; Box 4: Programmes Autumn 1996- Winter 1998; Box 5: Programmes Spring 1...

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

LEGARD OF GANTON COLLECTION

1341-1768

Deeds relating to Legard family estates at Binnington 1555-1721, Ganton 1341-1755 and Wykeham 1605-1768, some of which are published in Yorkshire Record Series 120 (1953).

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William Hanson and Company Limited, Business Archive

William Hanson and Company Limited

1924-1954

Comprises: 1) Credit ledgers, 1931-1951; 2) Debit ledgers, 1927-1950; 3) Invoice day-books for payments, 1929-1951; 4) Day-book for receipts, 1943-1951; 5) Wage books, 1924-1950; 6) Purcha...

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William Robert Middlebrook papers

1952-1969

Professor William Robert 'Bob' Middlebrook, trained as a protein chemist and worked in the United States 1953-1968.

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Archive Print Collection

Philosophy

Works published between 1602 and 1953. Subjects include Aristotle, political science, ethics, aesthetics, logic, John Locke, philosophy, psychology and Immanuel Kant. The collection also contains work...

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Cyril Leslie Oakley correspondence and papers

Oakley, Cyril Leslie (1907-1975)

1922-c.1972

Cyril Leslie Oakley was born in 1907 and educated at Portsmouth and Westminster. He was a student of Harold Leigh-Sharpe’s at Chelsea Polytechnic (University of London) and co-authored a paper for P...

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ARCHER-HOUBLON COLLECTION

12th century-17th century

Includes some 500 deeds; the collection ranges from 12th-17th century with a large proportion of medieval documents; mainly East Riding, especially Beverley (including St John's church), Brandesburton...

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BESWICK OF GRISTHORPE COLLECTION

13th century-19th century

Includes deeds relating mainly to Gristhorpe, Filey, Lebberston and Muston 13th-19th century, [see YRS 120 (1953)]; wills 17th-19th century; apprenticeship indentures 18th century; legal papers 18th c...

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DEEDS RELATING TO CAWTON

12th century-18th century

Court rolls for the manor of Cawton 1348-1640 [for deed see YRS 'Extra Series' 7 (1952)] Further deeds relate to Dalton, Gilling, Kilham, East Marton, township of Martons Both, Pockthorpe, parish of N...

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NOTES FOR A SURVEY OF CURRENT LOCATIONS AND KNOWN COPIES OF DEEDS PUBLISHED IN YORKSHIRE RECORD SERIES BY M P PALMER

1970-1980

Comprising YAS Record Series 39 (1907), 50 (1913), 63 (1922), 65 (1923), 69 (1926) 76 (1930), 83 (1932), 102 (1940), 111 (1946) and 120 (1953). Also 'Yorkshire Deeds' 1-10, c1979-1980 and information...

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