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Total number of records: 2253

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Archives1474
Books and printed items706
People and organisations49
Indexes23
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
University Archive366
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture329
Brotherton Collection229
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society140
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society83
English Literature66
Leeds Russian Archive55
Medical Collections47
Leeds General Cemetery35
Liddle Collection35

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SubjectCount
archive administration312
culture253
english language - dialects164
community life155
education91
occupations91
communication62
agriculture51
folklore47
buildings43

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
France78
Great Britain57
Europe22
Denmark21
India21
Soviet Union17
London, United Kingdom15
Greenland9
Spain9
United States7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Church of England94
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)37
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)30
Sykes, William Henry (1790-1872)22
Iceland21
Jon Sigurdsson21
Jon Sigurdsson (1811-1879)21
Olafur Halldorsson21
Olafur Halldorsson (1855-1930)21
Stephensen, Hilmar21

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From 1700243
From 1800446
From 19001366
From 200022

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Up to 169956
Up to 1799237
Up to 1899367
Up to 19991310
Up to latest188

Archive Series

Administration

1902-1989

LEEDS UNIVERSITY ARCHIVE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS ADMINISTRATION [ADM/011] [C.R.O.-‘I’] 1902-89 BOX 1 Administration - General 1960-69, 1970-74 Accidents 1968-74 Accommodation 1960-69, 1...

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Archive Series

Administrative

26/06/1981-03/1995

Wide range of material all relating to the day to day running of the ELWW. Includes: -Report on Application for registration of premises (for childcare), certificate, and annual inspection issued for ...

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Archive Sub-series

Administration

1981-2010

Includes board meeting mintues and papers, business plans and committee meetings

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Archive Sub-series

Administration

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1980-1983

Papers concerned with administrative matters relating to Sanderson as Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). These include typed memos regarding the acquisition of videota...

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Archive Series

Administration

1970-1990

Comprises business papers relating to the running of the theatre. These have not been reorganised.

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Archive Series

Administration

c.1920 - c.1971

Papers relating to the purchase/collection and arrangement (cataloguing) of items in the Romany Collection whilst in the custody of Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (DUR) and following its transfer to the Univer...

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Archive Series

Administration

1971-2016

Financial, organisational and business archive material relating to Red Ladder Theatre Company.

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Archive Sub-series

Administration

Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

1863-1996

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Administration

1820-2001

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Archive Sub-series

Administration

1933-1991

Records relating to the administration of Health Visitor Education in the Department of Public Health Medicine. Mainly relating to the administration of the Health Visitor Course, but also to other sh...

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Archive Sub-collection

Administration

c.1977 - 2012

This section of records provides information on how Leeds Animation Workshop functioned in its activities of filmmaking; training; screening and distributing. It comprises material relating to: - F...

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Archive Item

Administration

20 Apr 1709

Administration (York) to Mary Portington of goods of Henry Portington.

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