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Total number of records: 205

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Archives204
Books and printed items1

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society119
English Literature29
Brotherton Collection28
Feminist Archive North16
Medical Collections5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3
Leeds Poetry3
Art and Antique Market1
Business Archives1
Cookery Collection1

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letters14
english poetry8
english fiction3
english literature3
folklore3
general surgery3
jewish community3
diaries2
displaced persons2
english drama2

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Fountains Abbey; Markington; Ripon; Yorkshire West Riding2
London2
Woodsome; Farnley Tyas; Almondbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
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Bristol1
Buckinghamshire1
Burley In Wharfedale; Otley; Yorkshire West Riding1
Cheshire1
Cornwall1
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding1

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Kaye Family of Woodsome2
Moraes, Dom2
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)2
Adcock, Fleur1
Alibert Family1
Alibert, Michel1
Alibert, Olivier1
Baker Family1
Baron, Alec (1913-1991)1
Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances1

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Archive Collection

PHOTOCOPIES OF NOTES BY P LEWTHWAITE REGARDING FAMILIES FROM THE ARMLEY AREA LATER LIVING ON THE ISLE OF MAN

c1986

Relates to Maltby, Broadbent, Forster/Foster and Kilvington families who migrated in the early 19th century to the Isle of Man

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HORSLEY FAMILY HERALDIC COLLECTION

1594

Comprising a volume of arms of gentlemen who have lived or are living in the county palatine of Chester. The arms are in alphabetical order and blazoned.

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Jon Silkin letters to Connie Wieneke

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1996 - 1997

Letters by Jon Silkin addressed to Connie Wieneke who was then living in Wyoming. Letters principally concern Stand Magazine, particularly sales in the USA and more general difficulties with funding.

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History of Women in British Film and Television Project Interviews

2010-2017

25 interviews with women who worked in the British film and television industries in various roles. The interviews are 'life stories', covering family and education as well as working lives. For man...

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LETTERS PATENT

1 Dec 1600

1. Queen Elizabeth I 2. John Mylborne of Hynderskelf, gentleman Property: a capital messuage and appurtenances at Thornton under Ryseburghe Consideration: £830 Term: lives of said John Mylborne a...

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Radcliffe family manuscript cookery books

Radcliffe family

c.1939-c.2002

Three handwritten cookery books containing recipes written over a long period of time. The earliest recipes include wartime mincemeat and economy jam. The later recipes are mainly vegitarian recipes f...

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Charley Miles

2019

Material relating to the play There Are No Beginnings which was performed at Leeds Playhouse in 2019. The play focuses on the lives and relationships of four women during the time of the Ripper, inclu...

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LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIARIES OF ELIZABETH KITSON

1929-1932

Concerning archaeological digs in Kenya, Africa, and Palestine in which she took part relating the archaeologists' journeys to and from the sites at Lion Hill and Elmenteita in Kenya in 1929, and al...

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YORKSHIRE ECCLESIASTICAL COLLECTIONS

1753

A book containing: (a) An alphabetical list of the Parishes in the Diocese of York, their patrons and value. (b) The Patronage of the Archbishop of York, with the Dignitys and Prebends of the Minster...

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RALPH THORESBY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: COPY OF THOMAS KIRK'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND, 1677

1677-1714

Compising: (a) Thoresby's copy of Thomas Kirk's account of his visit to Scotland in 1677. (b) A copy of lists for the window tax, 1704 for many places in the West Riding. (c) The Commissioners report...

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Manchester Metropolitan University Women's Studies

Beetham, Margaret

Manchester Metropolitan University Women's Studies course content and Feminist Research Seminar consisting of students handbooks, progress reviews, student correspondence and application forms, core u...

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