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Total number of records: 10362

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Books and printed items7345
Archives2328
Indexes680
Textiles7
Art items1
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection2247
Quaker Collection915
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman857
English Literature664
Liddle Collection510
University Archive480
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society410
Ripon Cathedral310
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections231
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society160

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-1918156
cities and towns110
english essays90
socialism86
churches, quaker75
sermons, english51
operas47
natural history45
letters44
lepidoptera35

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain332
Germany123
France85
England70
Denmark64
Norway37
Wales31
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)127
Andermahr, Heinz110
Ennen, Edith110
Flink, Klaus110

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From 17001809
From 18003362
From 19003139
From 2000414

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Up to 18993531
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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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