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Total number of records: 27

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Archives25
Books and printed items2

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society16
Brotherton Collection5
English Literature5
Business Archives1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters4
english literature2
business records1
commercial correspondence1
country homes1
diaries1
english fiction1
english poetry1
medieval history1
portraits, british1

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Doncaster; Yorkshire West Riding1
Greetland; Elland; Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding1
Kilnsey; Conistone; Burnsall; Yorkshire West Riding1
Kirkby Ravensworth; Yorkshire North Riding1
London1
Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)2
Alice Violet Robson1
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)1
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)1
Bronte, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848)1
Chapman, J Vincent1
Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)1
Clay, Edith Margaret1
Clay, Hon Alice Violet (1892-1972)1
Currer Bell1

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From 180016
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Up to 189915
Up to 19999

Archive Collection

PEDIGREE OF PETTY FAMILY OF KILDWICK AND SKIPTON 1590-1847

nd [20th century]

Incorporating a table indicating sources of information

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Archive Print Collection

Romance

The books, published between 1774 and 1847, are primarily in French, and are examples of Romance literature. Subjects include troubadours, Provence and Provencal poetry.

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Archive Collection

PAPERS OF DOVENOR FAMILY OF KIRKBY RAVENSWORTH AND GAINFORD, DURHAM

1807-1924

Includes papers of Leonard Spensley Mason and Elizabeth Spensley Dovenor.

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Archive Collection

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS OF MILL HILL [UNITARIAN] CHAPEL

(1847)

Copied from a book of 1847 by M B Boyle. The book of 1847 was compiled by Edward Oates, at which time the old chapel of 1674 was replaced by the present building. Oates's book also contains a sketch p...

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Archive Collection

REVEREND JOSEPH HUNTER MANUSCRIPTS: ARTICLES

1845-7

'On the site of Cambodunum', manuscript printed in Archaeologia, Vol.XXXII (1847); Also Antiquarian notices of The Clay House in Greteland: (parish of Halifax, and county of York) For private distribu...

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Archive Collection

PAPERS RELATING TO WAKEFIELD

1801-1858

Includes: Notice and subscription list for the Wakefield circulating library, 1801 Notices regarding the erection of the new public library and newsroom, 1820, with lists of subscribers Detailed sp...

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Archive Collection

College of Preceptors papers

c.1847-1985

Comprises: (1) Minute books for 1847-1923; (2) Policy documents for 1944-1952 and 1968-1971; (3) Selected pages from the Educational Times for 1848-1923; (4) Various other materials used in research f...

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Archive Collection

SKIPTON CASTLE COLLECTION (ADDITIONAL DEPOSIT)

17th-19th century

Includes: Court books for Skipton manor 1847-1882, honour 1825-1882 and manors of Eshton 1741-1764, Gargrave 1761, Silsden 1752-1882, Stirton with Thorlby 1753-1882 Field books for Skipton 1757, Sils...

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Archive Collection

REVEREND JOSEPH HUNTER MANUSCRIPTS: NOTES AND EPHEMERA

1822-1851

Collection of notes and printed ephemera relating to Southwark London and Middlesex including:

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Archive Collection

Blavatnik Honresfield Library

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Patrick Branwell Brontë; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)

c17th - 19th century

Manuscripts, letters and books belonging to the Blavatnik Honresfield Library, collected during the late nineteenth century by William Law. The manuscript items relate to the Brontë family, and inc...

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Archive Print Collection

Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Printed Items

Printed works owned by several significant members of the Society became part of the Society's library collection. These include the collector Sir Thomas Brooke of Armitage Bridge (1830-1908), Librari...

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