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Total number of records: 2274

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1261
Archives699
Indexes308
Art items3
Objects2
Textiles1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Quaker Collection333
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman328
Brotherton Collection289
University Archive145
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections140
English Literature121
Leeds Russian Archive50
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society36
Liddle Collection26
Feminist Archive North25

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cities and towns110
churches, quaker32
russians15
letters14
inner light11
persecution11
world war, 1914-191811
freedom of religion10
russian literature10
thiepval memorial (thiepval, france)10

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Germany110
Great Britain102
Rawdon24
Leeds23
Halifax13
Bradford12
Settle11
Dorset10
England10
Salterforth10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Society of Friends142
Andermahr, Heinz110
Ennen, Edith110
Flink, Klaus110
Landschaftsverband Rheinland. Amt Fur Rheinische Landeskunde110
Lvr-Institut Fur Landeskunde Und Regionalgeschichte110
Muller, Martin (Cartographer)110
Universitat Bonn. Institut Fur Geschichtliche Landeskunde Der Rheinlande110
Fox, George (1624-1691)95
Great Britain. Parliament95

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From 13003
From 14005
From 15006
From 1600337
From 1700476
From 1800359
From 1900631
From 2000112

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Up to 1699332
Up to 1799422
Up to 1899315
Up to 1999265
Up to latest586

Archive File

The husbandman and his son

1804

The paper is watermarked 1804.

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Archive File

Waking photographs

1995

By Lin Coghlan.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of coarse, light brown/cream, plain woven fabric. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions...

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Archive Item
Skulls and flowers (fol. 106r)
Archive Piece

Skulls and flowers (fol. 106r)

[ca.1480-1500]

The border is decorated with skulls, flies, roses, thistles, strawberries, speedwells, stems and leaves of the acanthus plant.

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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Jer. Thoresby, Port Glasgow

13 May 1710

Regarding Captain Calverley of the Caledonia.

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Letter

9th Feb 1663

Letter to Sir Godfrey Copley from Robert Durant and John Ryther appealing for his intercession in their case of false imprisonment in York Castle.

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Letter from David Wolfers to Maurice de Sausmarez

19 Dec 1968

Typewritten letter from David Wolfers, Director of the New Grafton Gallery, to Maurice de Sausmarez, discussing correspondence with B.J. Myers, who had purchased two paintings by de Sausmarez. Wolfers...

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Account

29th Mar 1821

Bill of account for C White for books, 17 2s.

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