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Total number of records: 11

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives9
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Brotherton Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Business Archives1
English Literature1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Student Newspapers1
University Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
baked products1
castles1
childhood1
church buildings1
diaries1
drawing1
english literature1
fairies1
family1
family archives1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
London, United Kingdom1
Rome, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)2
Lawson, Fred2
Alice Violet Robson1
Briggs, Elspeth1
Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)1
Clay, Edith Margaret1
Clay, Hon Alice Violet (1892-1972)1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Ewart, John1
Gott Family1

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From 16001
From 17002
From 18002
From 19006

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Up to 18991
Up to 199910

Archive Sub-collection

Pictures

1902-1937

Letters, insurance documents and lists of paintings

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Archive Collection

LETTERS OF CLAPHAM FAMILY

1801-1869

Comprising letters of George Clapham 1801-1824 and John Clapham 1843-1869. Also a copy of Birstall tithe map, 1848, with part of schedule extracted by Barbara Clapham 1995. Also trancripts of the lett...

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Leeds Student
Archive Item

Leeds Student

07/06/1988

p.5: 'The Fifth Column' re: name change of Tartan to Harvey Milk Bar; p.20: 'Fines for Leeds duo' - two gay Leeds students forced to pay damage after painting gay rights symbols; 'The Milky bars are o...

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Redmire. 1920, Watercolour.
Archive Art Piece

Redmire. 1920, Watercolour.

Frederick Lawson

1920

Watercolour of people sat outside and on the steps of a Gypsy Traveller wagon [ caravan ].

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Archive Sub-collection

Gott papers; section 2: family records

Gott Family

c.1750-c.1941

Comprises: personal letters, diaries, travel notebooks, legal papers, inventories, etc. of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Records of William Gott's collections of books and paintings; J...

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Archive Item

Survey of English Dialects recording in Threlkeld, Cumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

29 Jun 1954

[Side 1] Mrs. Mills describes traditional method of baking bread, crumble yeast into bread tin, add lukewarm water and flour, knead mixture adding warm water, flour bottom of tin and cover for hour an...

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Archive Collection

Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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The green van, Leyburn, Watercolour.
Archive Item

"The green van, Leyburn," Watercolour.

Frederick Lawson

1925

Watercolour of a green Gypsy Traveller wagon. Street behind with church, to left; van with washing, seated adults, children. Signed, "Fred Lawson."

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Archive Collection

Katharine Mary Briggs, correspondence and papers

Briggs, Katharine M (1898-1980)

c.1900-1980

Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...

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Archive Collection

PAPERS OF CHARLES TRAVIS CLAY

Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)

1642-1976

Consists mainly of photocopies and correspondence exchanged with historical scholars including P Aheir, W Paley Baildon, W Farrer, LC Loyd, WE Preston, FM Stenton and A Hamilton Thompson. Topics inclu...

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Archive Collection

Additional Papers of Charles Travis Clay

Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978); Clay, Hon Alice Violet (1892-1972); Robson, William Snowden (1852-1918); Pilleau, Alice Caroline (1847-1935); Clay, Edith Margaret

1850-1972

The collection consists of: 1. Personal correspondence of Clay exchanged with family and friends. 2. Professional correspondence relating to Clay's war service, the Colonial Office, India Office...

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