Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 63 records

Total number of records: 63

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society17
Liddle Collection9
Brotherton Collection8
English Literature6
Business Archives3
Leeds Russian Archive2
Leeds Poetry1
Medical Collections1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters6
english literature5
english poetry4
music3
business records2
literature2
art, english1
childhood1
christian converts from judaism -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
church records and registers1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Yorkshire3
Aysgarth; Yorkshire North Riding1
Buckden; Arncliffe; Yorkshire West Riding1
Ethiopia1
Fermo, Italy1
Florence (Italy)1
Florence, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding1
Knaresborough; Yorkshire West Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bomford, Philip2
Pybus, Rodney (1938-)2
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)2
7th Earl of Huntingdon1
Atkinson Family1
Barnsley Family1
Barrett Family1
Bayley, Walter (1529-1593)1
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)1
Ben Samuel, Jacob1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 5001
From 10001
From 11001
From 12003
From 13001
From 15005
From 16006
From 17003
From 180015
From 190026
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15991
Up to 16993
Up to 17991
Up to 189914
Up to 199937
Up to latest7

Archive Collection

WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS

16th century-19th century

Comprising (a) Material for the history of the Brigg family including abstracts of wills. (b) Brigg wills proved in the Prerogative Courts of Canterbury, with index. (c and e) Index of Brigg wills fro...

More details


Archive Collection

WILLIAM BRIGG MANUSCRIPTS

16th century-19th century

Comprising (a) Correspondence (b) Card index to wills, mostly Yorkshire. (c) Notes on Brigg of Halifax, Brigg and Briggs of Sowerby, Shropshire, Norfolk, Westmorland and Sussex, Henry Brigg the mathm...

More details


Archive Collection

F A COLLINS MANUSCRIPTS

17th century-20th century

Comprising (a) Material for the history of Kirkburton including, Hearth Tax, 1666 and 1672-1674, Subsidy Rolls and genealogical notes on the families of Armitage, Booth, Brooke, Castle, Peace and Sav...

More details


Archive Collection

James Brown manuscripts and papers

Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)

c.1933-2000

Comprises the manuscript notebooks, musical compositions, and associated printed works written and compiled by James Brown between the years 1933 and 2000, along with miscellaneous personalia and an a...

More details


Archive Collection

Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

More details


Archive Collection

Ripon Cathedral Manuscript Fragments

11th-15th century

This collection comprises 65 numbered medieval manuscript fragments, mostly on vellum but some on paper, many in several parts. The majority are loose and housed in boxes. Others remain in situ in the...

More details


Archive Collection

Evelyn Waugh, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of 'Vile Bodies', with related material.

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)

1912-1993

Comprises the following items: (1) Carbon typescript with autograph manuscript title-page of Volume 1 of 'The Pistol Troop magazine', compiled by Waugh when a child, 1912; (2) Mimeographed typescript ...

More details


Archive Collection

Arabic, Middle Eastern and Asian Manuscripts

500-2000

The Department of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies has deposited its collection of Middle Eastern and Asian manuscripts in Special Collections. There are over 370 manuscripts in primarily in...

More details


Archive Collection

WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: YORKSHIRE COLLECTIONS

1827

Comprising a small book lettered "Radcliffe, Yorkshire Collections". It contains a number of extracts from Dodsworth's mss, monumental inscriptions in Featherstone Church and extracts from the pari...

More details


Archive Collection

WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: FAMILY EVIDENCES

1807-1825

Comprising a book lettered "Radcliffe's family evidences". Principal contents include the following extracts, evidences at Kirklees Hall made in 1809, evidences of Joseph Armytage of Outwood Lodge, ...

More details


Archive Collection

Oscar Wilde, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of his play 'The Duchess of Padua', with some related material

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

1878-1895

Comprises the following items: (1) Autograph letter to Marian Willets [1878]; (2) Manuscript draft and notes for the original contract made by J.M. Stoddart, and Co. with Wilde for publishing Rennell ...

More details


Archive Collection

WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES VOLUME 1

1808-1825

Volume lettered "Geneal. Vari. R III"containing pedigrees. At page 165 of first volume and page 166 of the second volume are original letters from the Rev. Joseph Hunter. No index

More details