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Total number of records: 44

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society13
Brotherton Collection12
English Literature10
Business Archives4
Feminist Archive North2
Leeds Poetry2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Medical Collections1

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letters11
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english poetry4
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art, modern1

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Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)2
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor2
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)2
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)2
Armitage Family of Pinchingthorpe1
Askew, Anthony (1722-1774)1
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)1
Bataillard, Paul (1816-)1
Berry, Francis1
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)1

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Archive Collection

RESEARCH NOTES OF E S STORY OF HARROGATE REGARDING DAUGHTER HOUSES OF FOUNTAINS ABBEY IN NORWAY

20th century

Includes photographs, correspondence, notes.

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PAPERS OF E W CROSSLEY: EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS DOCUMENTS

(13th-20th century)

Including papers relating to Newland preceptory 13th-16th century; survey of parish records initiated by the Diocese of Wakefield Parochial Documents Commission 1920s; abstracts of wills from the re...

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MATERIAL COLLECTED FOR A HISTORY OF THE FIELD FAMILY OF SKELMANTHORPE BY T E FIELD

18th century-20th century

Including a few deeds of the Jebson and Blacker families 18th-20th century, valuation of Clayton West township 1807, family photographs 19th-20th century, family tree with notes and correspondence 19...

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SIR W H ST JOHN HOPE COLLECTIONS: PLAN OF KIRKHAM PRIORY AND PICKERING CASTLE

19th century-20th century

Plan, sections and measurements of Pickering Castle by E B S Shepherd, 1902

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NOTES ON THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SLACK BY FRANCIS VILLY OF KEIGHLEY

1908-1927

Concerns Roman roads and refers to Slack in Outlane, Huddersfield with OS 6" maps 2nd Edn 1908, sheets CCXLV. S.E. and CCXLVI.S.W.

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'Old' Doncaster: Scrapbook

c.1920s

Scarpbook titled 'Doncaster' including newspaper cuttings of articles on 'Old' Doncaster, also includes 1 sheet of handwritten notes.

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SERIES OF ANNUAL NOTES WITH PLANS AND PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO YORKSHIRE AND DURHAM

1948-1959

Relating to work done by S V Morris on the eastern great north road [Roman] in Yorkshire and Durham. Includes aerial photographs of Whorlton and Crayke, Thornton-le-Street to railway crossing on Lon...

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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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Isaac Holden and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Isaac Holden and Sons Limited; Holden, Sir Isaac (1807-1897)

c.1830-1910

Summary of Contents by Box No. I. Papers referring to patents and other business affairs. 1830s-50s. II. Journals and notebooks. 1844-88. III. Newspaper cuttings, parliamentary bills, addr...

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PRINTED PLANS OF THE PROPOSED ROCHDALE CANAL

1791

1. A plan showing the line of the proposed Rochdale Canal between the Calder Navigation near Sowerby in the County of York and Manchester in the County Palatinate of Lancaster with its different branc...

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Glyn Hughes, literary papers with related material

Hughes, Glyn

1975-1999

Comprises: (1) 39 autograph manuscript notebooks containing many drafts of Glyn Hughes' poems, research notes for novels, and numerous personal notes, partly dated between ca. 1979 and 1999, with so...

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Letters to Merle Brown from Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracey

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997); Tracy, Lorna; Brown, Merle E (1925-)

1965 - 1978

Letters from Jon Silkin to the teacher, critic, and founder of the Iowa Review, Merle Brown over a period of ten years from 1965 to 1978. These letters offer an insight into the personal and profes...

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