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Quaker Collection2
Brotherton Collection1
Business Archives1
English Literature1
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family archives16
letters13
diaries3
social history2
textile industries2
textile industry2
business records1
castles1
church buildings1
cleaning and dyeing industry1

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Baines Family2
Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)2
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)2
Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)2
Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869)2
Baines, Anita Florence Seed1
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)1
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Broadbent, Sarah Ann (1842-1930)1
Crockatt Family1

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Archive File

Account of the life of John Broadbent, of Longwood, near Huddersfield, and of his family, compiled by Sarah Ann Broadbent

Broadbent, Sarah Ann (1842-1930)

c.1900

Mainly comprising transcripts from letters

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Gott papers; section 2: family records

Gott Family

c.1750-c.1941

Comprises: personal letters, diaries, travel notebooks, legal papers, inventories, etc. of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Records of William Gott's collections of books and paintings; J...

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Archive Collection

Geoffrey Woledge Archive

Woledge, Geoffrey (1901-1988)

19--

Includes diaries, letters, postcards, photographs, household accounts, notes on bibliography, librarianship and education, papers of various family members, documents relating to Aireborough Civic Soc...

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Correspondence of Thomas Perronet Thompson, members of his family, and other persons

Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869); Thompson, Sir John Perronet (1873-1935)

1793-1912

The material contains business and personal letters by Thomas Perronet Thompson and his family including distant relatives. It also encompasses notes on politics, religion and other topics. There are ...

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Crockatt family and business Archive

Crockatt Family

c.1818-1996

The archive includes business and family papers generated by the Crockatt family. The business papers encompass histories of the company, accounts, advertising material and correspondence. There are d...

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Archive Series

Family Papers

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1893-1962

This series contains papers relating to Blackburn's family, both paternal (Blackburn) and maternal (Fenwick). It includes family letters and legal papers. Where possible, the names of different family...

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Stancliffe family of North Yorkshire Archive

Stancliffe Family; Stancliffe, Percy (1867-1949); Stancliffe, Richard Schofield (1895-1959); Stancliffe, George Hall (1899-1954)

c.1800-1952

Comprises: (1) Letters, diaries, and a few stamps; (2) Ledgers relating to financial accounts; (3) Various local maps, some rolled, others folded; (4) Game books for the years 1896-1903; (5) An ...

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Baines family of Leeds and other families, 19th and 20th centuries miscellaneous papers

Baines Family; Baines, John Manwaring (1910-2002)

1801-1982

These papers principally illuminate the experiences of the donor John Manwaring Baines, his parents and children. There is material on pre-war holidays, contemporary accounts by J M Baines of his serv...

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Papers relating to Thomas Harvey and other members of the Harvey family

Harvey, Thomas (1812-1884)

1812-1902

The collection of family papers and other material was the gift, in May 2002, of Mrs Mary Rowlands, granddaughter of William Harvey and great-granddaughter of Thomas Harvey. Comprises: 1-5, Notebook...

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Papers relating to the Harvey family of Leeds

Harvey family

c.1830-c.1983

The Harveys were one of the prominent Quaker families in Leeds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were related, by marriage, to several other local Quaker families, including the Fr...

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Archive Sub-collection

Additional papers of Thomas Perronet Thompson and members of his family

Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869)

c.1745-1941

These papers supplement material in Special Collections MS 277. Some members of the family whose papers are included in this sub-collection appear in standard biographical reference books. There is a ...

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