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The Brotherton Library
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
England
LS2 9JT

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    Collections information

    Businesses (112)

    Organisations (136)

    Persons (678)

    Diaries (63)

    Families (17)

    Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (79)

    • NRA 16072 William Ackroyd Ltd, worsted spinners, Otley link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16073 Airedale Mill Co Ltd, commission scribblers and spinners, Leeds link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16074 Jeremiah Ambler & Sons Ltd, combers, spinners and weavers, Bradford link to online catalogue
    • NRA 19812 Sir Linton Andrews, editor of the Yorkshire Post: corresp and papers
    • NRA 10085 Thomas Arnold family letters and papers
    • NRA 34704 Association for Science Education link to online catalogue
    • NRA 27774 Association for Technical Education in Schools link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30604 Association of Education Committees
    • NRA 19429 William Thomas Astbury, physicist: papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16071 John Bancroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners, Keighley link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26506 Frank Beckwith, librarian: corresp link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16069 T Berry (Bradford) Ltd, wool and waste dealers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 20284 Jethro Bithell, German scholar: corresp and papers
    • NRA 32464 Blackburn, Tolson & Co Ltd, woollen mfrs, Heckmondwike
    • NRA 16070 Henry Booth & Sons Ltd, cloth mfrs, Gildersome link to online catalogue
    • NRA 35050 Algernon Borthwick, Baron Glenesk and Bathurst family, Earls Bathurst: corresp and papers incl reco link to online catalogue
    • NRA 34054 John Bowling & Co Ltd, ironfounders, Leeds
    • NRA 30282 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth: corresp and papers
    • NRA 18524 HL Bradfer-Lawrence MSS
    • NRA 5982 Henry Briggs Son & Co Ltd, colliery owners, Wakefield
    • NRA 16434 Sir Walter Calverley: corresp rel to Broadcloth Acts link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16066 W & J Clarkson Ltd, cloth mfrs, Pudsey link to online catalogue
    • NRA 15623 JT Clay & Sons Ltd, woollen mfrs, Rastrick link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16067 Robert Clough (Keighley) Ltd, worsted spinners link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16068 Samuel Cockcroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners, Bradford link to online catalogue
    • NRA 23122 John Armstrong Davison, professor of Greek: corresp and papers
    • NRA 21074 Bonamy Dobree, professor of English literature: corresp and papers
    • NRA 27395 Henry Drummond-Wolff, promoter of Commonwealth development: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 16437 E Fox & Sons Ltd, shoddy and mungo merchants, Dewsbury link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28257 Eugen Glueckauf: papers rel to Robert Spence, chemist
    • NRA 9840 Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer and poet: corresp
    • NRA 16435 Gott family of Armley: family papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26802 William Hanson & Co Ltd, cotton spinners, Halifax link to online catalogue
    • NRA 33159 Harrogate Londesboro' Working Men's Club
    • NRA 20688 Louis Henry Hayter, politician: corresp
    • NRA 33160 Hey family of Leeds: corresp
    • NRA 16436 Thomas Hield & Sons Ltd, yarn merchants, Dewsbury link to online catalogue
    • NRA 22573 John David Ivor Hughes, professor of law: papers
    • NRA 32465 Hutchinson, Hollingworth & Co Ltd, loom mfrs, Dobcross
    • NRA 25232 Henry Illingworth, woollen mfr: corresp and papers on the French textile industry link to online catalogue
    • NRA 24112 John Harry Jones, professor of economics: notes and papers
    • NRA 24897 Percy Fry Kendall, geologist: corresp
    • NRA 18528 Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds
    • NRA 21000 Leeds Academic Assistance Committee
    • NRA 22572 Leeds General Cemetery Co Ltd
    • NRA 19811 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
    • NRA 17118 Leeds Society of Friends
    • NRA 27772 Leeds University: Brotherton Library misc accessions
    • NRA 25809 Leeds University: Brotherton Library MS collections
    • NRA 23121 Leeds White Cloth Hall link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28359 Leeds: Queen Square and Park Square galleries
    • NRA 30441 Sir Edward Alexander Henry (Harry) Legge-Bourke, MP: corresp and papers
    • NRA 18164 Edward Longbottom, dyer, Batley link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30993 Marshall & Co, flax spinners, Leeds link to online catalogue
    • NRA 24714 Aylmer Maude, author and translator: corresp
    • NRA 30440 John Stuart Mill, philosopher: letters
    • NRA 26287 National Union of Teachers: Leeds association
    • NRA 10657 Novello-Cowden Clarke collection
    • NRA 26618 Cyril Leslie Oakley, bacteriologist: corresp and papers
    • NRA 32929 Pearson family of Mountcross: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30283 Edgar Allison Peers, professor of Spanish: corresp and papers
    • NRA 7213 Ripon: dean and chapter
    • NRA 25859 Cecil Roth, historian: corresp and papers rel to the Jewish community at Salonika
    • NRA 35202 Esther Simpson, secretary of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning: corresp and pa
    • NRA 20283 Arthur Smithells, professor of chemistry: corresp and papers
    • NRA 32456 Society for the Study of Theology
    • NRA 17735 Professor Edmund Clifton Stoner, physicist: papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 19566 Herbert Thompson, music critic: corresp and papers
    • NRA 15923 Thomas Perronet Thompson, General and politician: family and political corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 24325 Ruthven Todd, writer: corresp and papers rel to William Blake
    • NRA 15924 Wentworth family of Woolley: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 1099 West Yorkshire business records
    • NRA 17624 Richard Whiddington, physicist: notebooks and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 27773 John Lloyd Williams, engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 21696 Wilson family, baronets, of Eshton Hall: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 11144 John Wilson of Broomhead: Yorkshire collection
    • NRA 3993 John Wilson: Yorkshire antiquarian collection
    • NRA 29651 Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting
    • NRA 32457 Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society

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