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Total number of records: 16700

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Books and printed items8760
Archives4759
People and organisations1607
Indexes1494
Art items44
Coins29
Objects6
Textiles1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection3717
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2516
English Literature1707
Quaker Collection1110
Letters Database933
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture569
Herbert Read Collection331
Liddle Collection221
Leeds Russian Archive199
Cookery Collection173

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
sermons, english112
world war, 1914-1918106
occupations102
society of friends102
culture97
english poetry88
letters76
law reports, digests, etc74
implements, utensils etc66
theology59

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Great Britain864
England489
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Leeds68
France67
Herefordshire66
Worcestershire66
Yorkshire (England)52
Gloucestershire44
Monmouthshire44

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sykes, Donald Richard358
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)315
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)273
Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485218
Steele, Richard213
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)199
Church of England199
Addison, Joseph179
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)158
Great Britain129

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From 1200194
From 1300342
From 1400135
From 1500414
From 16002277
From 17002608
From 18003875
From 19004829
From 2000321

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Richard

1990s

This file contains a typescript paper by Lucien Richard, a colleague of Hill's at Boston University, with Hill's ms annotations (30 ff).

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Name: Lapage, Richard [son of Richard, 1738-1818]

Reference: Carlton Hill E3

Meeting: Leeds PM 1749-1792

Pages: to attend MM 80, 255, 340; to deliver collection for MM to MM 81; trustee 127, 362; overseer 255; on appointment: discipline 231, 251, 252-54, 264, 298, 301, 304, 312, 337, finance 81, 112, 168, 178, 191, 192, 254, 292, nominations 113, poor 145, 226, 227, 312, 314, 317, 329, property 240, 265, 266, 270, 277, 278, 306, Queries 226, subscriptions 62, 247, 255, 259, 264, 289, 308, sufferings 236, 238, 299; QM doorkeeper 213;


subscriber: for John Griffith's pamphlet 74, for schoolroom 78, for poor 94, for cowhouse 103, for road repair 110, for book room 123, for Huddersfield FMH 126, for MM school 130, for Gildersome School 294, 136, 144, 151, 161, 189, 211, 224, 236, 261, 327, 340, for FMH 177, for FMH repair 205, for London FMH 335, for American Friends 184, subscriber for work on watercurse 229, for enlarging schoolroom 244, for new Leeds FMH 319, for PM stock 268, 351, for Harwood Well FBG wall repair 293, for Gough's History 316; cash subscriber 1791 358


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Richard Bright

Swan Electric Engraving

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BLUNDELL, RICHARD,

1970-1999

(Tape 996/Typescript Summary). Private, 19th Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Pals); Brief details of his experiences in France & Belgium 1914-1918.

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CARTER, RICHARD

1915-1918

2 large group photographs (July & Aug 1915); 4 photographs (Aug 1915, 1917); 3 letters to Peter Liddle containing recollections, 1976.

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Ford, Richard

c.1939-1945

Privately published recollections 'Fire, Land and Sea: Service - with Interest'.

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Westall, Richard to [-]

Westall, Richard

15 Sep 1835

Cheque bearing Westall's signature.

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FAIRTHORNE, RICHARD

1914-1918

Photocopied typescript recollections 'Some Naval Memories of 45 Years ago' (nd); photocopied Manuscript recollections 'Some thoughts on the navy over 65 years' (nd); published article 'Battleships in ...

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