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Brotherton Collection1
Business Archives1
Cookery Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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coal mines and mining1
drainage1
flax1
geology1
letters1
privatization1
water supply1

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Bryan, Sir Andrew1
Burr, May Sybil1
Jackson, Frederick Keith1
Joint Board of the West Yorkshire Coal Owners' Association and the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association1
Kendall, Percy Fry (1856-1936)1
Louis Compton Miall1
May Sybil Leslie1
Miall, L C (1842-1921)1
Yorkshire Geological Society1

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Archive Collection

DEEDS INCLUDING COPYHOLD ADMITTANCES AND WILLS, INCLUDING THOSE OF THE BARLOW FAMILY

1606 - 1915

Relating to Acomb, Adlingfleet, Burton Leonard, Clifton, Dewsbury, Fountains Earth in the parish of Kirby Malzeard, Goldthorpe, Pocklington, Roecliffe, Ripon, Royston, Sigsworth, Thornton with Bishops...

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Archive Print Collection

Artists' Books

1965 - present

A collection of over 250 artists' books dating from the 1960s to the present. The collection includes diverse art forms and approaches. Sabine J Bieli uses yarns in various colours, materials and te...

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Archive Print Collection

Fuel

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Archive Print Collection

Metallurgy

Nineteenth-century works on the properties of metals, iron- and steelmaking, and strength of materials.

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Archive Print Collection

Mining

Nineteenth-century works on colliery operation and management, the coal industry, and quarrying.

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Archive Print Collection

Geology

Mainly nineteenth-century texts on geology, mineralogy and palaeontology, including works by Buckland, Cuvier, Darwin, Lyell and Owen.

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Archive Collection

Coal mining papers compiled by Sir Andrew Bryan

Bryan, Sir Andrew

c.1901-1990

Comprises reports, articles, photographs, press cuttings, pamphlets, periodicals, and books on coal mining.

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Archive Print Collection

Agriculture

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

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Archive Collection

Anglian Water Papers

1980s

Comprises public enquiry reports, corporate plans, press cuttings and papers on conservation and recreational land use

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Yorkshire Geological Society

Yorkshire Geological Society

1837-2016

Main part of the collection is MS 1560 which comprises the papers and correspondence of the society. Additional records include records of the library and photographs.

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Frederick Keith Jackson, assembled pamphlets, offprints and correspondence about flax growing and processing

Jackson, Frederick Keith

1847-1974

This collection of pamphlets, offprints, miscellaneous notes and some correspondence about flax growing and processing was assembled by Frederick Keith Jackson, Director of the Flax Experiment Station...

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West Yorkshire Coal Owners' Association

Joint Board of the West Yorkshire Coal Owners' Association and the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association

1890-1955

Contains three accessions MS 841, 964, 148. Collection includes minutes, financial records, membership records. The collection is not complete and descriptions of specific accessions should be consult...

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