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Total number of records: 10804

Count of Record type

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Books and printed items7478
Archives2602
Indexes704
Textiles8
Art items7
Objects3
People and organisations2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection2360
Quaker Collection925
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman857
English Literature732
Liddle Collection525
University Archive500
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society423
Ripon Cathedral319
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections237
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society210

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-1918157
cities and towns110
english essays90
socialism86
churches, quaker75
sermons, english54
oceanography53
marine animals52
letters47
operas47

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain334
Germany123
France86
England74
Denmark64
Norway37
Wales32
Iceland20
Scotland18
Herefordshire17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Society of Friends367
Great Britain. Parliament189
Great Britain184
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)164
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)163
Fox, George (1624-1691)143
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)130
Andermahr, Heinz110
Ennen, Edith110
Flink, Klaus110

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From 150041
From 16001075
From 17001842
From 18003494
From 19003326
From 2000431

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Up to 16991055
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Up to 18993654
Up to 19992686
Up to latest1557

Archive Item

Lease of land in Pybus Field, Over Bentham

24 Jan 1665

1. John Johnson of Whittington, Lancashire, Jennet Walker of Bottom, widow, and William Walker, her son 2. Stephen Husband of Bentham

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Floral border (fol. 157r)
Archive Piece

Floral border (fol. 157r)

[ca. 1470-1480]

1/4 bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, curved leaves, and gold balls with green lobes. 5-line rose/blue in...

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Joseph and Sarah Pool's Testimony concerning their son Joseph

Early 19th century

Joseph died on 12 December 1765 aged 16 years. One of the testimonies has been copied out by John Yeardley, probably in the early nineteenth century.

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W. T. Freemantle: Miscellaneous items.

1868-1873

Various miscellaneous items: sign, page of a concert layout for the Surrey St. Music hall (1868) giving the names and seats of all the ticket holders, St. Andrew's choir register (1873) and large foli...

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