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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society12
Brotherton Collection8
English Literature8
Business Archives1
Leeds Poetry1

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letters9
english literature4
art, english2
english fiction2
english poetry2
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portraits, british1

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Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)3
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor3
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)3
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)3
Armitage Family of Pinchingthorpe1
Askew, Anthony (1722-1774)1
Atkinson Family1
Baker Family1
Barnsley Family1
Barrett Family1

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

H L BRADFER-LAWRENCE COLLECTION

Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L (1887-1965)

12th century-20th century

Collection of documents amassed by antiquarian HL Bradfer-Lawrence: Ribblesdale papers, includes deeds etc relating to the estates of the Listers in Gisburn, Malham, Paythorne, Rimington, Skipton, ...

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Archive Print Collection

Architecture

Books published between 1611 and the last decade. British architecture is the subject of the majority of the books, but French and Italian architecture are also covered; some 100 of the books are in I...

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Archive Collection

NOTES ON THE FAMILY OF FAIRFAX BY BRIDGER

1870-1880

Bound volume of letters to J Camden Hotten and Charles Bridger relating to heraldic and genealogical subjects. There are letters from Joseph L Chester, Richard Sims, Reginald Ames, J A C Vincent, Jose...

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Regiment of Princes
Archive Collection

Regiment of Princes

Hoccleve, Thomas (1369-1426); Selden (1420-); Robinson, John (16th century-16th century); Browne, Thomas (16th century-16th century); Gibbs, Frater (16th century-16th century); Pawson, Esther (17th century-17th century); Heber, Richard (1773-1833); Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

c.1420

Manuscript in Middle English in Anglicana Formata on parchment, copied by the 'Selden Scribe' [ex inf.: Professor Sebastian Sobecki] containing Thomas Hoccleve's ‘Regiment of Princes’. Marginal gl...

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Archive Collection

WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS

16th century-19th century

Comprising (a) Correspondence (b) Card index to wills, mostly Yorkshire. (c) Notes on Brigg of Halifax, Brigg and Briggs of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex, Henry Brigg the mathm...

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Archive Collection

THOMAS BECKWITH MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: NOTES

14th century-18th century

Comprising, a volume of sundries, the main contents are, (a) Lists of officials in some towns and villages of Yorkshire, by wapentakes. (b) Pedigree of Selby. (c) Extracts from Domesday relating to Yo...

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Archive Collection

Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Archive Collection

Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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REVEREND JOSEPH HUNTER MANUSCRIPTS: TRANSCRIPTS

19th century

Comprising a volume containing:- (a) Records, temp Edward III and Elizabeth. (b) Will of John Webb of Winterbourne Dantsey. (c) Collation of Mr. Blaauw's copy of the Sussex Subsidy Roll. (d) Inventory...

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Hilda M. A. Squire and family, letters and papers

Squire, Hilda Martha Lilian (1898-1991)

1836-1991

Hilda Squire was a hospital almoner. She was the daughter of a London doctor, Edward Squire, who had been interested in issues of public health and hygiene. Her grandfather, Dr. William Squire, was ph...

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ROGER DODSWORTH MANUSCRIPTS: EXTRACTS FROM MANUSCRIPTS

1652

Comprising a volume by Dodsworth comprising (a) Abstracts of charters from Gilling Castle, 1652 (b) Memoranda (c) Extracts from the Chartulary of Byland relating to Sutton under Whitestonecliff (...

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