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Total number of records: 3790

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Archives3521
Books and printed items262
Art items3
Objects3
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2670
Brotherton Collection306
English Literature258
Feminist Archive North164
Business Archives55
Leeds Poetry22
Medical Collections14
Art and Antique Market11
Cookery Collection11
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections10

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letters123
english poetry79
business records48
textile industry46
english literature41
english fiction24
english drama21
commercial correspondence14
diaries13
education11

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Yorkshire59
York; Yorkshire32
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding30
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding16
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding14
England7
Dewsbury; Yorkshire West Riding6
Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding6
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding6
Mirfield; Yorkshire West Riding6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Radcliffe Family11
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)6
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)6
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor6
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)6
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)6
Dorothy Una Clough5
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips5
Dorothy Una Phillips5
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)5

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Archive Print Collection

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1710-1719 Collection

1710-1719

Miscellaneous books published in England in the second decade of the 18th century. Includes subjects on Great British history, kings and rulers, politics and government, church and state and foreign r...

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Archive Art Collection

Japanese prints

1735-1873

Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...

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Agriculture

Includes: Francois Rozier’s “Cours complet d'agriculture” (10v, 1793-1802);

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All Souls Music

All Souls Music

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All Souls Science

Books and journals, originating principally from the 17th century, covering many different aspects of science. Subjects include astronomy, botany, geometry, mathematics, medicine, chemistry and physio...

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All Souls Socinianism.

Socinians were the followers of Fausto Sozzini (Socinus), who developed a strain of unitarian theology in Poland in the sixteenth century. Socinus and his followers rejected the Trinity, original sin,...

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All Souls Theology

Works from the late 16th century to the late 20th century, covering religious subjects, Old and New Testament Bible commentaries and criticisms, theology, Jesus Christ, apologetics and Judaism. Former...

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Ancient History

Works published from 1613 to the present day, with well over two-thirds of the collection dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Subjects include antiquities, tombs, vases, architecture, art, excava...

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Anglo-French

Works printed before 1830 (with a few later exceptions) which illustrate the influence of Great Britain on France. Many of the works are translations into French from English or, occasionally, from Br...

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Anglo-German

Books in German and English published from 1654 to 1971, although the bulk of the collection dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. It consists mainly of translations into German of works in English ...

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