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Total number of records: 13

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Books and printed items1

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Business Archives3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
Brotherton Collection2
English Literature2
University Archive2

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business records4
textile industry4
commercial correspondence2
flax spinning1

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Aspley, William (1640)1
Bayley, Walter (1529-1593)1
Bedford, Francis (1799-1883)1
Blount, Edward (1588-1632)1
Condell, Henry (1627)1
Droeshout, Martin (1601-)1
Fisher, Clement (1539-1619)1
Heminge, John (1556-1630)1
Jaggard, Isaac (1627)1
Kellett, Brown and Company Limited1

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Archive Collection

George Hattersley and Sons Limited, Business Archive

1845-1888

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Summary of ...

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PAPERS RELATING TO LEDSHAM SCHOOL (LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' FOUNDATION)

1739-1949

Includes: registers 1749-1831 and 1833-1949; accounts 1739-1810, 1837-1874; housekeepers' accounts 1770-1771, 1816-1817; accounts and vouchers for the building of the new schoolhouse 1739; examiners' ...

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William Rhodes Limited, Business Archive

1845-1937

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Birkenshaw ...

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Letter addressed from 'Haworth'; with pen and ink sketch entitled
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

10 September 1845

Letter to Leyland commenting on Brontë’s disappointment that Leyland was unable to visit Haworth, and his hopes he will be able to visit soon. Also contains a detailed discussion of a three-volume ...

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Kellett, Brown and Company Limited, Business Archive

Kellett, Brown and Company Limited

1833-1930

Summary of Contents: I. Nominal and Purchase Ledgers. 1833-1930. II. Mill Processing Records. 1835-1922, Milling and Scribbling. 1835-1920, Scribbling with some spinning and dyeing. 1868-1922, Spin...

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Senate Minutes and Papers

13 Mar 2018

Contains: 1) Agenda S-18-4_final 2) S-18-35_VCReport 3) S-18-36_GRBS 4) S-18-37_EnvandFoodScience 5) S-18-38 TEF Update 6) S-18-39_UEG report 7) S-18-40_Graduate Board report 8) S-18-41_RIB re...

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A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same
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A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same

Fisher, Clement (1539-1619); Bayley, Walter (1529-1593); Willoughby, Edward (16th century-16th century); Stephens, Marly (17th century-17th century)

c.1580

Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is...

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Council Minutes and Papers

24 Jan 2019

Contains: 1) Agenda 24 January 2019 2) CL-18-39 VC's report 3) CL-18-40 Student Lifecycle Programme 4) CL-18-41 Specialist Maths School 5) CL-18-42 NCAS 6) CL-18-43 LUU Annual Report Accounts ...

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BROADSHEETS AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO SELBY

19th century

Including: File of papers relating to Selby Gas Company including accounts and papers relating to street lighting, 1832-1860 Selby Board of Health papers including c50 broadsheets and 'cholera fund'...

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Rev. William and Elizabeth Pierce Commonplace Book

Pierce, Mrs Elizabeth (c1862)

c1840 - 1880

Scrapbook or commonplace book compiled by the Rev. William Matthews Pierce and his wife Elizabeth (nee Rockcliffe). Later owned by the Rev. Walter Currer Holliwell. William Pierce was appointed Perpet...

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SKIPTON CASTLE COLLECTION

13th century-20th century

Papers of the Clifford family, Earls of Cumberland and of their successors, Earls of Thanet relating to the honour of Skipton and their Craven estates 13th-20th century. Includes deeds and settlement...

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Marshall and Company, Business Archive

1788-1886

The firm was founded in 1788 by John (1765 - 1845), son of a Leeds draper, to take advantage of recent developments in the spinning of flax by machine. He set up a partnership with Samuel Fenton and R...

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