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Businesses (111)
- William Ackroyd Ltd, worsted spinners, Otley Otley, Yorkshire
- Airedale Mill Co Ltd, commission scribblers, spinners and finishers Rodley, Yorkshire
- Jonathan Akroyd, clothier Halifax, Yorkshire
- Jeremiah Ambler & Sons Ltd, combers, spinners and weavers Bradford, Yorkshire
- John Anderton, worsted manufacturer Cullingworth, Yorkshire
- EJ Arnold & Son Ltd, wholesale & manufacturing stationers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Thomas Askren, farmer Yorkshire, West Riding
- John Bancroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners Oxenhope, Yorkshire
- HC Baxter & Sons, antiques dealers, Eastbourne Eastbourne, Sussex
- T Berry (Bradford) Ltd, wool, noils and waste dealers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Blackburn, Tolson & Co Ltd, woollen manufacturers Heckmondwike, Yorkshire
- Henry Booth & Sons Ltd, woollen cloth manufacturers Gildersome, Yorkshire
- John Bowling & Co Ltd, ironfounders Leeds, Yorkshire
- Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Ltd, millers, finishers, waterproofers, embossers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Bradford & Thornton Railway Co Bradford, Yorkshire
- Bradford Dyers Association Ltd Bradford, Yorkshire
- Henry Briggs Son & Co Ltd, colliery owners Whitwood, Yorkshire
- British National Opera Co London
- John Broadbent & Son (Longwood) Ltd, woollen manufacturers and merchants Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Joseph Bufton, weaver Coggeshall, Essex
- Isaac Chippindale & Sons, brick and tile manufacturers Scholes, Yorkshire
- William & Jonathan Clarkson Ltd, woollen cloth manufacturers Pudsey, Yorkshire
- JT Clay & Sons Ltd, worsted and woollen manufacturers Rastrick, Yorkshire
- Robert Clough (Keighley) Ltd, worsted spinners and manufacturers Keighley, Yorkshire
- Samuel Cockcroft & Co Ltd, worsted spinners Bradford, Yorkshire
- Crockatt Cleaning Ltd, dyers and dry cleaners Leeds, Yorkshire
- Thomas Croft, Fridaythorpe Lodge Farm Fridaythorpe, Yorkshire
- George Crowther & Co, woollen manufacturers Churwell, Yorkshire
- W & E Crowther Ltd, woollen manufacturers Slaithwaite, Yorkshire
- Enitharmon Press Leeds, Yorkshire;London
- Thomas Eskricke, farmer Howden, Yorkshire
- Farnley coal pits Farnley, Yorkshire
- Fighting Cock Press / Pennine Poets Archive
- Ford, Ayrton & Co Ltd, silk spinners Bentham, Yorkshire
- Foster & Lassey, clayworks Queens Head, Shropshire
- John Foster and Son, worsted, alpaca, mohair spinners and mfrs Queensbury, Yorkshire
- E Fox & Sons Ltd, shoddy manufacturers Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- James France & Co Ltd, carpet and woollen manufacturers, yarn spinners Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- William Gawthorp & Co, commission wool combers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Benjamin Gott & Sons, woollen cloth manufacturers and merchants Leeds, Yorkshire
- Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway Co Halifax, Yorkshire
- Halifax, Thornton & Keighley Railways Halifax, Yorkshire
- William Hanson & Co Ltd, cotton spinners and doublers Halifax, Yorkshire
- George Hattersley & Sons Ltd, worsted spinners and manufacturers Keighley, Yorkshire
- Thomas Hield & Sons Ltd, yarn merchants and exporters Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- Sir James Hill & Sons Ltd, wool merchants and topmakers Bradford, Yorkshire
- John Hirst & Sons, woollen manufacturers Dobcross, Yorkshire
- Isaac Holden & Sons Ltd, wool combers Bradford, Yorkshire
- John Holdworth & Co Ltd, moquette spinners and manufacturers Halifax, Yorkshire
- Holly Park Mill Co Ltd, dyers, scribblers, carders, spinners, fullers Calverley, Yorkshire
- Joseph Horsfall & Sons Ltd, worsted spinners Halifax, Yorkshire
- Hutchinson, Hollingworth & Co Ltd, loom manufacturers Dobcross, Yorkshire
- Thomas Ibbotson, worsted manufacturer Leeds, Yorkshire
- Illingworth Lassey & Foster, coal masters Leeds, Yorkshire
- Adolph Jacobs & Co Ltd, wool and noil merchants Bradford, Yorkshire
- Robert Jowitt & Sons Ltd, wool merchants, combers, scourers, carbonisers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Kellett Brown & Co Ltd, spinners, scribblers, scourers, fullers and tenterers Calverley, Yorkshire
- Foster Kirby, Pluckham Farm Thixendale, Yorkshire
- Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co Manchester, Lancashire;Horwich, Lancashire
- Albert Edward Leak, rope manufacturer Leeds, Yorkshire
- H. M. Lee & Sons, antique dealers
- Joseph Lee, woollen manufacturer Idle, Yorkshire
- Leeds General Cemetery Co Ltd Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds White Cloth Hall Leeds, Yorkshire
- Lister & Co plc, wool combers, silk spinners and knitting wool manufacturers Bradford, Yorkshire
- James & RJ Lister, woollen spinners and yarn merchants Frizinghall, Yorkshire
- London Magazine London
- Edward Longbottom, dyer Batley, Yorkshire
- William Lupton & Co Ltd, woollen manufacturers and traders Leeds, Yorkshire
- RV Marriner Ltd, worsted spinners and manufacturers Keighley, Yorkshire
- Marshall & Co, flax spinners Leeds, Yorkshire;Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- John Maude & Sons, woollen manufacturers Stainland, Yorkshire
- Midland Railway Co Derby, Derbyshire
- The Morning Post, newspaper London
- New Statesman, magazine London
- North Biddick Colliery Biddick, Durham
- Oates Bros (Halifax) Ltd, worsted spinners Halifax, Yorkshire
- Opera North, opera company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Phillips of Hitchin (Antiques) Ltd, antique dealer, Hitchin Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Phoenix Dance Company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Queen Square & Park Square Art Galleries Leeds, Yorkshire
- John Raistrick & Sons, woollen manufacturers Idle, Yorkshire
- Red Ladder Theatre Co Leeds, Yorkshire
- John Reddihough Ltd, wool merchants, top makers, wool combers Bradford, Yorkshire
- William Rhodes Ltd, flock manufacturers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Harry Rider & Co, textile manufacturers Oakworth, Yorkshire
- Edward Ripley & Son Ltd, dyers and finishers Bradford, Yorkshire
- RJC Dance, dance company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Sausmerez-Carey, wine-shipper and merchant Guernsey
- David Sowden & Son Ltd, loom manufacturers Shipley, Yorkshire
- John & David Spencer & Sons, wool staplers Keighley, Yorkshire
- Stair & Co, antique dealers
- Stand, poetry magazine
- G & J Stubley Ltd, woollen manufacturers Batley, Yorkshire
- David Sykes & Sons, cloth finishers Hunslet, Yorkshire
- John Taylors & Sons Ltd, woollen manufacturers Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Tchengelek Proprietary Co Ltd, oilfield proprietors London
- S Tempest & Co, dress manufacturers Bradford, Yorkshire
- M. Turpin Antiques Ltd
- JC Waddington & Sons Ltd (formerly William Brayshaw & Sons), woollen and worsted dyers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Roger Warner, antiques dealer, Burford Burford, Oxfordshire
- Christopher Waud & Co, worsted spinners Bradford, Yorkshire
- Waywiser Press, publishers, Chipping Norton Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
- West Riding & Grimsby Railway Co Wakefield, Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Whitwood Colliery Co Whitwood, Yorkshire
- William Willans & Co Ltd, wool merchants Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Mathew Wilson, barrister Westminster, Middlesex
- Wormalds & Walker Ltd, blanket manufacturers Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Land & Warping Co, investment company Doncaster, Yorkshire
- Mill Almondbury, Yorkshire
Organisations (134)
- Adel Preparative Meeting Adel, Yorkshire
- African Theatre, theatre company, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Allen Committee of Inquiry into the Impact of Rates on Households
- Ampleforth (Helmsley) Preparative Meeting Ampleforth, Yorkshire
- Angela Thirkell Society
- Askwith Preparative Meeting Askwith, Yorkshire
- Association for Science Education
- Association for Technical Education in Schools
- Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching
- Association of Education Committees
- Association of Northern Secondary Technical Schools
- Association of Science Teachers
- Association of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers of Leeds and District Leeds, Yorkshire
- Association of Women Science Teachers
- Bentham Preparative Meeting Bentham, Yorkshire
- Bingley Preparative Meeting Bingley, Yorkshire
- Bradfield parish Bradfield, Yorkshire
- Bradford Preparative Meeting Bradford, Yorkshire
- Bradford Society of Friends Bradford, Yorkshire
- Brighouse Monthly Meeting Brighouse, Yorkshire
- Brighouse Preparative Meeting Brighouse, Yorkshire
- Brighouse Society of Friends Brighouse, Yorkshire
- British Association for the Advancement of Science: Leeds meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- British Education Index Leeds, Yorkshire
- British League of Help
- British Society for the History of Science
- British Society for the History of Science
- Bubwith Preparative Meeting Bubwith, Yorkshire
- Christadelphians
- Church Socialist League
- Cottingwith Preparative Meeting Cottingwith, Yorkshire
- Dacre Preparative Meeting Dacre, Yorkshire
- Darley Preparative Meeting Darley, Yorkshire
- Gildersome Preparative Meeting Gildersome, Yorkshire
- Gottingen British Society Gottingen, Germany
- Halifax Preparative Meeting Halifax, Yorkshire
- Harrogate Londesboro Working Men's Club Harrogate, Yorkshire
- Harrogate Preparative Meeting Harrogate, Yorkshire
- Hatfield parish Hatfield, Yorkshire
- Holbeck and New Wortley Mechanics Institution Holbeck, Yorkshire
- Holden Library, Diocese of Ripon Ripon, Yorkshire
- Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Huby Preparative Meeting Huby, Yorkshire
- Huddersfield Preparative Meeting Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Hull Lubricating Oil Trade Association Hull, Yorkshire
- Ilkley Preparative Meeting Ilkley, Yorkshire
- Institution of Civil Engineers: Yorkshire students association Leeds, Yorkshire
- HMS Invincible (1869)
- Keighley Meeting Keighley, Yorkshire
- Keighley Preparative Meeting Keighley, Yorkshire
- Kellington township Kellington, Yorkshire
- Knaresborough Monthly Meeting Knaresborough, Yorkshire
- Knaresborough Preparative Meeting Knaresborough, Yorkshire
- Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- League of the Kingdom of God
- Leeds Academic Assistance Committee Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Association of Engineers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Board of Guardians Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Chamber of Commerce and Industry Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Chamber of Trade Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Monthly Meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Monthly Meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Preparative Meeting Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Public and Sub-Public Assistance Committees Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds Retailers Association Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds University Staff Tennis Club Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds University Union Theatre Group Leeds, Yorkshire
- Leeds White Cloth Hall Leeds, Yorkshire
- Lipman-Miliband Trust, socialist research and education charity
- Mary, Lady Lister, of Thornton Thornton, Yorkshire
- Liverpool Philomathic Society Liverpool, Lancashire
- No 517 (London) Field Company, Royal Engineers London
- Lothersdale Preparative Meeting Lothersdale, Yorkshire
- Manchester, Chester and Ripon Diocesan Church Temperance Society: Bradford branch Bradford, Yorkshire
- Mankinholes Preparative Meeting Mankinholes, Yorkshire
- Marrick Priory (Benedictine) Marrick, Yorkshire
- Midland Institute of Mining Engineers
- Morley Preparative Meeting Morley, Yorkshire
- Morning Post Field Force Fund
- National Gypsy Council Leeds, Yorkshire
- National Union of Teachers: Leeds association Leeds, Yorkshire
- Netherdale (Dacre) Preparative Meeting Dacre, Yorkshire
- New Earswick Preparative Meeting Earswick, Yorkshire
- North of England Education Conference
- Northallerton Preparative Meeting Northallerton, Yorkshire
- Notton and Royston (Staincross) Commons Notton, Yorkshire
- Oil Distributors Emergency Council: Yorkshire area Yorkshire and the Humber
- Oliver Borthwick Memorial Home, London London
- Owstwick (Holderness) Monthly Meeting Owstwick, Yorkshire;Holderness, Yorkshire
- T B Pease: Sheepscar estate, Leeds Sheepscar, Yorkshire
- Queen Square and Park Square Galleries, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Rawdon Preparative Meeting Rawdon, Yorkshire
- Rawdon Quaker School Rawdon, Yorkshire
- Ripon Dean and Chapter Ripon, Yorkshire
- Roundhay Preparative Meeting Roundhay, Yorkshire
- Rounton Preparative Meeting West Rounton, Yorkshire
- Salterforth and Lothersdale Preparative Meeting Salterforth, Yorkshire;Lothersdale, Yorkshire
- Salterforth Preparative Meeting Salterforth, Yorkshire
- Scholes Preparative Meeting Scholes, Yorkshire
- School Natural Science Society Leeds, Yorkshire
- Science Association
- Science Masters Association
- Selby Preparative Meeting Selby, Yorkshire
- Selside Preparative Meeting Yorkshire, West Riding
- Settle Monthly Meeting Settle, Yorkshire
- Settle Preparative Meeting Settle, Yorkshire
- Sheffield parishes Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Skipton Preparative Meeting Skipton, Yorkshire
- Society for the Protection of Science and Learning
- Society for the Study of Theology
- Society of Jesus: Paraguay Province
- Star Chamber
- Stocksbridge township Stocksbridge, Yorkshire
- Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah Harehills, Yorkshire
- Thirsk Monthly Meeting Thirsk, Yorkshire
- Thirsk Preparative Meeting Thirsk, Yorkshire
- Thomas de Garis of Guernsey Guernsey
- Thornton le Clay Preparative Meeting Thornton-le-Clay, Yorkshire
- West Riding Executive Research Committee Yorkshire, West Riding
- West Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions Yorkshire, West Riding
- West Yorkshire Coal Owners Association Leeds, Yorkshire
- William III's army in the Low Countries
- York Monthly Meeting York, Yorkshire
- York Preparative Meeting York, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire College Athletics Union, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire College, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Geological Society Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Lubricating Oils and Grease Trades Association Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Music Festivals Yorkshire and the Humber
- Yorkshire Naturalists Union Leeds, Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting Yorkshire and the Humber
- Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society Yorkshire and the Humber
- Zion Old British School, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
Persons (672)
- Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911), illustrator and painter
- Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938), poet and critic
- Adams, Sir Walter (1906-1975) Knight, economist
- Adcock, Arthur St John (1864-1930), novelist
- Aitken, John (1839-1919), meteorologist
- Aitken, William Maxwell (1879-1964) 1st Baron Beaverbrook, newspaper proprietor
- Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) Novelist
- Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie (1848-1899), author
- Allen, Diana (1916-2007), campaigner
- Allingham, William (1824-1889), poet
- Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett (1873-1955), politician and journalist
- Anderson, John Redwood (1883-1964) Poet
- Andrews, William Linton (1886-1972), journalist
- Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich (1871-1919) Russian Writer and Emigre
- Archer, William (1856-1924), dramatist and drama critic
- Armitage, Edward (1822-1906) Botanist
- Armitage, Simon (b1963), poet and writer
- Armstead, Henry Hugh (1828-1905) Sculptor
- Armstrong, Terence Ian Fitton (1912-1970), poet and bibliographer
- Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888), poet and critic
- Arnold, Thomas (1795-1842), headmaster of Rugby, historian
- Arnold, Thomas (1823-1900), professor of English Literature
- Ashby, Eric (1904-1992) Baron Ashby, botanist
- Ashby, George (1724-1808), President of St John's College Cambridge, antiquary
- Ashton, Winifred (1888-1965) Novelist and Playwright as Clemence Dane
- Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret (1864-1945), wife of 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
- Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928) 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman
- Astbury, William Thomas (1898-1961), physicist
- Ayrton, Edmund (1734-1808), composer
- Baddeley, Welbore St Clair (1856-1946) Antiquary
- Bailey, Kenneth (1909-1963) Biochemist
- Baillie, Sir James Black (1872-1940) Knight, philosopher and public servant
- Bain, John Vernon (1922-2007), poet
- Balfour, Arthur James (1848-1930) 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Ball, Sir George Joseph (1885-1961) Knight Property and Mine Owner
- Banks, Cyril (1901-1969) MP
- Barbier, Paul (1873-1947) Professor of French, Leeds University
- Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917) 1st Earl of Cromer, statesman
- Baring, Maurice (1874-1945), journalist and author
- Barrett, Wilson (1846-1904) Actor and Playwright
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937), 1st baronet, playwright, novelist Kirriemuir, Angus
- Barstow, Stan (1928-2011), writer Horbury, Yorkshire;Pontardawe, Glamorgan
- Barton, Bernard (1784-1849) Quaker Poet
- Bateman, Michael (1932-2006), writer
- Bates, Leslie Fleetwood (1897-1978), physicist
- Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances (1871-1965), wife of 7th Earl of Bathurst
- Bathurst, Seymour Henry (1864-1943) 7th Earl Bathurst, Colonel
- Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017), sociologist and philosopher
- Bax, Clifford (1886-1962), author and playwright
- Beaty, David (1919-1999), pilot and author
- Beaumont, Charles Genevieve d'Eon de (1728-1810) Chevalier d' Beaumont, French diplomat and author
- Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian (1872-1956) Knight, author and cartoonist
- Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie (1856-1930) Writer
- Bell, John (1811-1895) Sculptor
- Bellenden, John (fl 1533-1587), poet
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold (1867-1931), novelist playwright and journalist
- Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), writer
- Beresford, Maurice Warwick (1920-2005), historian and archaeologist
- Bernal, John Desmond (1901-1971), physicist
- Berry, Francis (1915-2006), poet and Professor of English
- Besant, Sir Walter (1836-1901) Knight, novelist and historian
- Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984) Knight, poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster
- Binyon, Robert Laurence (1869-1943), poet art historian and critic
- Birdwood, William Riddell (1865-1951) 1st Baron Birdwood, Field Marshal
- Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933), author and statesman
- Bithell, Jethro (1878-1962) Reader in German
- Black, Joseph (1728-1799), chemist
- Blackburn, Michael (b 1954), poet
- Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977), poet
- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974) Baron Blackett, physicist
- Blunden, Edmund Charles (1896-1974), poet
- Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881), writer and traveller
- Borthwick, Algernon (1830-1908) Baron Glenesk
- Borthwick, Alice Beatrice (d 1898), wife of Baron Glenesk
- Bottomley, Gordon (1874-1948), poet and dramatist
- Bottrall, Francis James Ronald (1906-1989), poet
- Boyle, Sir Edward (1878-1945) 2nd Baronet
- Boyle, Edward Charles Gurney (1923-1981) Baron Boyle of Handsworth
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915), novelist
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor (b 1933), novelist
- Bragg, Melvyn (b 1939) Rt Hon Lord, broadcaster, writer and parliamentarian
- Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942) Knight Physicist
- Bragg, Sir William Lawrence (1890-1971) Knight, physicist and crystallographer
- Braine, John Gerard (1922-1986) Author
- Brand, Barbarina (1768-1854) Lady Dacre, poet and dramatist
- Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen (1842-1927) Danish Literary Scholar
- Bray, John Francis (1809-1897) Economist
- Briggs, Katherine Mary (1898-1980) Author and Folklorist
- Brodetsky, Selig (1888-1954) Mathematician and Zionist
- Bromley, William (1664-1732), Secretary of State and Speaker of the House of Commons
- Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855), novelist and poet
- Brontë, Emily Jane (1818-1848), novelist and poet
- Brooke, John Charles (1748-1794) Herald Antiquary Topographer
- Brooks, Charles William Shirley (1816-1874), editor of Punch
- Brown, Ford Madox (1821-1893), painter
- Brown, Reginald Francis (1910-1985) Professor of Spanish
- Browning, Robert (1812-1889), poet
- Buchanan, Sir George William (1854-1924) Knight Diplomat
- Bufton, Joseph (fl 1651-1700) Coggeshall Weaver
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert (1831-1891) 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Bulwer-Lytton, Victor Alexander George Robert (1876-1947) 2nd Earl of Lytton
- Burke, Sir John Bernard (1814-1892) Knight, herald and genealogist
- Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley (1836-1917) Knight Author and Journalist
- Butler, Josephine Elizabeth (1828-1906), feminist and social reformer
- Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982) Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
- Caine, Sir Thomas Henry Hall (1853-1931) Knight, novelist
- Calverley, Sir Walter (d 1749) Knight Jacobite and Clothier
- Campbell, James Dykes (1838-1895) Biographer
- Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844), poet
- Cardus, Sir Neville (1889-1975), knight, journalist
- Caulfield, Richard (1823-1887), librarian and antiquary
- Causley, Charles Stanley (1917-2003), poet, broadcaster and teacher
- Challenger, Frederick (1887-1983) Chemist
- Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen (1863-1937) Knight, politician
- Chapman, Alfred Chaston (1869-1932) Chemist
- Chapman, Guy Patterson (1889-1972), historian
- Charteris, Sir Evan Edward (1864-1940) Knight Biographer and Barrister
- Childe, Wilfred Rowland Mary (1890-1952) Poet and Critic
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965) Knight, prime minister and historian
- Clark, Edwin Kitson (1866-1943) Lieutenant Colonel Engineer and Antiquary
- Clarke, Charles Cowden (1787-1877) Author
- Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden (1809-1898), Shakespearean scholar
- Clayton, Sir Robert (1629-1707) Knight, MP, scrivener, Lord Mayor of London
- Clifford, Sir Hugh Charles (1866-1941) Knight Colonial Governor
- Clifford, Sophia Lucy (1846-1929), novelist and playwright
- Clodd, Edward (1840-1930), banker and author
- Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas (1897-1967), Knight, physicist and engineer
- Cole, George Douglas Howard (1889-1959), socialist historian and political thinker
- Collier, Carus Vale (c 1865-1929) Anglican Clergyman and Antiquary
- Collins, Ernest Rokeby (1870-1963), Major, geologist and archaeologist
- Colnaghi, Dominic Paul (1790-1879), print dealer
- Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845-1927) Knight, art and literary critic
- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), master mariner and author
- Constable, Archibald (1774-1827), publisher
- Cook, Elizabeth (b 1952), author
- Coppard, Alfred Edgar (1878-1957), poet and author
- Corfield, Frederick Alleyne (fl 1914-1918) Captain Army Service Corps
- Cornish, George James (1794-1849) Prebendary of Exeter
- Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller- (1863-1944), Knight, novelist and literary scholar
- Coulson, Charles Alfred (1910-1974), Mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious writer
- Courthope, William John (1842-1917) Civil Servant Poet and Critic
- Cox, Sir Ernest Gordon (1906-1996), crystallographer and secretary of the Agricultural Research Council
- Crabbe, George (1754-1832), poet
- Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (1867-1906), novelist and dramatist
- Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton (1858-1945) 1st Marquess of Crewe, statesman
- Cross, Mary Ann (1819-1880), novelist and poet Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin (b 1941), translator, children's author and poet
- Crump, William Bunting (1868-1950) Antiquary
- Cuming, Hugh (1791-1865), naturalist
- Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925) 1st Marquess Curzon, statesman
- Dalton, James (1764-1843) Rector of Croft Naturalist
- Danell, James (1821-1881) Bishop of Southwark
- Davidson, John (1857-1909), poet
- Davidson, Randall Thomas (1848-1930) Baron Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Davison, John Armstrong (1906-1966) Classical Scholar
- Davray, Henry D (1873-1944) Literary Scholar and Translator
- Dawson, Robert M. (b 1944), campaigner
- Denny, James Runciman (1908-1978) Composer
- Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji (b 1896) Prime Minister of India
- Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814) Dramatist and Songwriter
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), novelist and journalist
- Dickinson, Patric Thomas (1914-1994), poet and playwright
- Dicksee, Sir Francis Bernard (1853-1928) Knight Painter
- Diefenbaker, John George (1895-1979) Prime Minister of Canada
- Dixon, Harold Baily (1852-1930) Chemist
- Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974) Professor of English
- Dobson, Henry Austin (1840-1921) Poet and Literary Biographer
- Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961) afterwards Aldington, Poet and Novelist called H.D.
- Douglas, Sir George Brisbane (1856-1935), 5th Baronet writer
- Douglas, Keith (1920-1944), poet
- Dowden, Edward (1843-1913), Professor of English Literature and critic
- Drinkwater, John (1882-1937), playwright, poet and actor
- Duclaux, Agnes Mary Francis (1857-1944), author
- Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham (b 1942), poet and critic
- Dunn, James Nicol (1856-1919), journalist
- Durham, Mary Edith (1863-1944) Balkan Traveller and Author
- Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham- (1836-1919) Writer
- Egan, Pierce (1814-1880) novelist
- Elgar, Sir Edward William (1857-1934) 1st Baronet Composer Broadheath, Worcestershire
- Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849) Corn Law Rhymer
- Elton, Oliver (1861-1945), scholar and critic
- Ervine, St John Greer (1883-1971), playwright and novelist
- Etherton, Michael (b1944), director
- Eurich, Friederich Wilhelm (1867-1945), bacteriologist
- Fairfax, Charles (1597-1673), antiquary and genealogist
- Fairfax, Ferdinando (1584-1648) 2nd Baron Fairfax, General
- Fairfax, Henry (1588-1665) Rector of Bolton Percy, Antiquary
- Fairfax, William (1593-1621), soldier and poet
- Fanshawe, Sir Evelyn Dalrymple (1895-1979) Knight Major General
- Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le (1814-1873) Novelist and Journalist
- Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens (1865-1940), historian and statesman
- Fitton, Judith Mary (1930-2008), nurse
- Fitzgerald, Thomas (? 1695-1752) poet and clergyman
- Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James (1857-1923), Historian of Spanish Literature
- Fleming, John (1785-1857), naturalist and Free Church of Scotland minister
- Fraser, Sir Angus McKay (1928-2001), civil servant, author and historian Dumfriesshire
- Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941) Knight, social anthropologist
- Freeman, Robert Aspin (fl 1875-1940) Linguist
- Fry, Geoffrey K. (fl 1966-2003), author and academic
- Fuller, Roy Broadbent (b 1912), poet and author
- Furness, Horace Howard (1833-1912), American Shakespearean scholar
- Gallienne, Richard Thomas Le (1866-1947), poet and essayist
- Gardiner, Alfred George (1865-1946) Author and Journalist
- Gardner, Herbert Coulston (1846-1921) Baron Burghclere
- Gardner, Winifred Anne Henrietta Christina (1864-1933) Lady Burghclere, biographer
- Garnett, Richard (1835-1906) Librarian Poet Biographer Literary Scholar
- Garstang, Walter (1868-1949), zoologist
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865), novelist Chelsea, Middlesex
- Gaskill, William (1930-2016), theatre director
- Gatty, Margaret (1809-1873), writer and naturalist
- Gibson, Wildrid (1878-1962) Author and Poet
- Gillies, Alexander (b 1907) Professor of German
- Gissing, Algernon (1860-1937) Novelist
- Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903), novelist
- Goerner, Doris (1928-2013), textile designer and academic
- Golding, Louis (1895-1958) Novelist
- Gosse, Sir Edmund William (1849-1928) Knight, poet, biographer and literary critic
- Gosse, Philip (1879-1959) Author Historian
- Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888), zoologist
- Gott, John (1830-1906) Bishop of Truro
- Gott, William (1797-1863) Leeds Philanthropist and Collector
- Gough, Charles Edward (1874-1957) Professor of German
- Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (1852-1936), politician and author
- Grant, Arthur James (1862-1948), historian and professor, Leeds University
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- Grigg, Edward William Macleay (1879-1955) 1st Baron Altrincham, politician
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- Hall, George (fl 1908-1918) Reverend, parish rector and member of the Gypsy Lore Society
- Hannah, Sophie (b 1971), author of crime fiction, poet
- Harcourt, Lewis (1863-1922) 1st Viscount Harcourt
- Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Hare, David (b 1947), playwright
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- Harraden, Beatrice (1864-1936), novelist and suffragist
- Harrison, Anthony (b 1937), poet, translator and playwright
- Harrison, Colin (fl 1899) Lieutenant Royal Scots Greys
- Harrison, Frederic (1831-1923), author and positivist
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- Harvey, Thomas Edmund (1875-1955) Quaker MP
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- Hill, Archibald Vivian (1886-1977), MP, physiologist
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- Holloway, Geoffrey (b 1918) Poet
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- Hood, Thomas (1835-1874), humorist
- Hopkins, Kenneth (1914-1988), Poet and author
- Horne, Richard Hengist (1803-1884), author
- Hueffer, Francis (1845-1889) Musical Critic
- Hughes, John David Ivor (1885-1969) Professor of Law
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859), essayist and poet
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- Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse (1841-1905) Knight, classical scholar historian MP educationist
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- Lepage, Albert (b 1895) Poet and Dramatist
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- Low, Sir Sidney James Mark (1857-1932) Knight Author Historian and Journalist
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- May, John (1775-1856) First Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police
- McCarthy, Justin (1830-1912), Politician Historian and Novelist
- McFall, Frances Elizabeth Bellenden (1854-1943), novelist
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- Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901), psychical researcher, schools inspector and author
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- Nash, Sir Walter (1882-1968) Knight Prime Minister of New Zealand
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- Osers, Ewald (b 1917) Translator and Writer
- O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar (1844-1881), poet and herpetologist
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- Palmer, Herbert Edward (1880-1961), poet and literary critic
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- Roth, Cecil (1899-1970) Historian
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- Thompson, Thomas Perronet Edward (d 1904) Lancashire JP
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- Williams, Iolo Aneurin (1890-1962), writer
- Williams, John Lloyd (1885-1940), engineer
- Wills, William Gorman (1828-1891) Irish Playwright
- Willson, Maurice Frank Campbell (fl 1915-1918) Army Captain
- Wilson, Harold Albert (1874-1964) Physicist
- Wilson, James Harold (1916-1995) Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, statesman
- Wilson, John (1719-1783) Antiquary
- Wilson, John (1785-1854), author as Christopher North
- Wilson, Sir Mathew (1802-1891) 1st Baronet MP
- Wilson, Thomas (1713-1789) Yorkshire Antiquary
- Wingfield, Lewis Strange (1842-1891), traveller, actor, writer and poet
- Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937) Bibliographer Book Collector Forger
- Wolfe, Humbert (1886-1940), poet and civil servant
- Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond- (1899-1982) MP Author Promoter of Commonwealth
- Wolseley, Garnet Joseph (1833-1913) Viscount Wolseley, Field Marshal
- Wolseley, Louisa (1843-1920), wife of 1st Viscount Wolseley
- Wood, Butler (1854-1934) Bronte Scholar
- Wood, Charles Lindley (1839-1934) 2nd Viscount Halifax
- Woolf, Leonard Sidney (1880-1969), editor, author and civil servant
- Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892), sculptor and poet
- Wright, Ichabod Charles (1795-1871) translator
- Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), Shakespearean and biblical scholar
- Yates, Edmund Hodgson (1831-1894) Novelist
- Yeats, Jack Butler (1871-1957), author and illustrator
- Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939), poet and playwright
- Young, Sydney (1857-1937) Chemist
- Zangwill, Israel (1864-1926) Author and Philanthropist
Diaries (63)
- Alexander, K (fl 1914-1918), diarist
- Armstrong, Olive (fl 1915-1918) of Dublin Dublin, County Dublin
- Baxter, B W (fl 1914-1918) Army Medical Service
- Beavon, Harold (fl 1916-1918) Conscientious Objector
- Begg, Richard Campbell (fl 1939-1945) Lieutenant, Royal Navy, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Bellerby, Percy (fl 1915) Soldier
- Bruet, Yvonne (fl 1914-1919), diarist of Bordeaux Bordeaux, France
- Cale, Annie (fl 1888-1921) Governess Russia
- Campbell, Stuart (fl 1943) Lance Bombardier, Royal Artillery
- Cave, Ac (1914-18) Quartermaster, 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
- Churchill, A (fl 1939-1945) Lieutenant Military Police, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Clarke, Arthur (fl 1914-1918), submariner
- Cockayne, Dame Elizabeth (fl 1914-1918) Nurse
- Collins, W W (fl 1914-1918), Able Seaman of Lancashire Lancashire;Lancashire
- Corbett, Dame Margery (fl 1900-2000) Ashby Suffragist
- Cossons, Robin (fl1917) Royal Army Medical Corps
- Evans, Reginald (fl 1915-1919), soldier of France France;Russia
- Felsberg, Lucy (fl 1917-1920) Russia
- Ferguson, James Scott- (fl 1917-1918), lieutenant, 4th Battalion Seaforths
- Foucar (1939-45) Lt-colonel
- Fry, John (fl 1779) of Melksham Melksham, Wiltshire
- Garnett, James (fl 1914-1919), pilot, Royal Flying Corps
- Godfrey, G (fl 1939-1945) Captain Royal Army Medical Corps, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Gresham, T B (fl 1914-18) Soldier, 6th Battalion Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Harrison, W G (fl 1945), sergeant, Cheshire Yeomanry
- Hart, H V (fl 1917) Soldier, 6th Battlion Yorks Regiment France
- Harwood, B T (1944) Airman, Raf
- James, M M (fl 1914-1916), nurse, Territorial Nursing Force
- Kearns, C F (1919) Lieutenant In Canadian Air Force Canada
- Langstadt, Erich (fl1953)
- Lucas, J R (1914-16) Csm, 6th London Regiment London
- Macleod, E A (fl 1900-2000) Student, Cambridge Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Macleod, E (fl 1914-1918), Cambridge Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Martin, Stanley (fl1955-2004) of Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- McCaw, Dick (fl c2013), dance researcher
- Milburn, G (fl 1914-1918) Nurse With British Red Cross
- Newell, T J (1914-1915) Driver, Army Service Corps
- Olley, Gordon (fl 1914-1918), Member of Royal Flying Corps
- Parker, H (fl 1917) Soldier
- Parker, M (fl 1900-2000) British Red Cross Driver France
- Pearson, Christopher (fl 1883-1895) Naval Surgeon
- Pearson, Mary Anne (1853-1943) Algiers, Algeria;Liverpool, Lancashire
- Pilton, James W (fl 1939-1945), leading aircraftman
- Pressley, J S (fl 1914-1918) Soldier
- Reid, Margaret Grant (fl 1938-1973) of Oslo Oslo, Norway
- Mortimer, Roger Frederick (fl 1940-1945)
- Rose, Walter James (fl 1914-1918), soldier, 1/5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
- Salisbury, Frank (fl 1914-1918) Seviceman, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Salisbury, Norman (fl 1914-1918) Serviceman, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Salisbury, Pat (fl 1914-1918) Serviceman, Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Salisbury, Robin (fl 1914-1918), Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Severn, Horace (fl1915-16) Private, Dli
- Smith, Dorothy (fl 1914-1920), VAD nurse of Germany Germany;Turkey
- Stedman, Lady Olive (fl 1914-1918)
- Tateson, John (b1792), tailor of Selby Selby, Yorkshire
- Thurstan, Violet (fl 1914-1919) Nurse Russia
- Titmuss, Cd (fl1917) Rfn, 15th London Regiment, London London
- Tomlinson, John (d1916) Private
- Tulloch, John (d1946) Gunner, Royal Artillery
- Walker, Bernard Eyre (fl 1914-1918), Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- Wharton, Rowland (b1892) Private, Grimsby Grimsby, Lincolnshire
- White, Sybil (fl 1916-1918), diarist and wife of a conscientious objector
- Youhill, Joseph (1915) Soldier, Army Ordnance Corps
Families (17)
- Bathurst family, Earls Bathurst Cirencester, Gloucestershire;Oakley Park, Gloucestershire;Hothorpe, Northamptonshire
- Bowes family of Streatlam Castle Streatlam and Stainton, Durham;Wemmergill, Yorkshire
- Boyle family, baronets, of Ockham Ockham, Sussex
- Currer and Richardson-Currer family of Kildwick Kildwick, Yorkshire
- Ford, family of Leeds Leeds, Kent
- Gott family of Armley Armley, Yorkshire
- Lister family of Frizinghall Frizinghall, Yorkshire
- Luttrell family of Chelsea Chelsea, Middlesex
- Osborne, family, Dukes of Leeds Baylies, Buckinghamshire;Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire;Quainton, Buckinghamshire;Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire;Wexham, Buckinghamshire;Wingrave, Buckinghamshire;Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire;Stapleford, Cambridgeshire;Godolphin, Cornwall;Helford, Cornwall;Helston, Cornwall;Penrhyn, Cornwall;Penventon, Cornwall;Parsloes, Essex;Aldbury, Hertfordshire;North Mimms, Hertfordshire;Tring, Hertfordshire;London;Holborn, Middlesex;Syon Hill, Middlesex;Westminster, Middlesex;East Dereham, Norfolk;Kingston, Nottinghamshire;Abertanat, Shropshire;Newmarket, Suffolk;Wimbledon, Surrey;Barnsley, Yorkshire;Conisbrough, Yorkshire;Harthill with Woodall, Yorkshire;Hornby, Yorkshire;Kiveton Park, Yorkshire;Lindrick, Yorkshire;North Anston, Yorkshire;Seamer in Pickering Lythe Wapentake, Yorkshire;South Anston, Yorkshire;Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire;Todwick, Yorkshire;Wakefield, Yorkshire;Wales, Yorkshire;Tanyllwyn, Denbighshire;Broniarth, Montgomeryshire;Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire;Invereshie, Inverness-shire;Scilly Isles
- Paget family, baronets, of Cranmore Cranmore Hall, Somerset;East Cranmore, Somerset;Doulting, Somerset;Newberry, Somerset;Oldfallings, Staffordshire;Wednesfield, Staffordshire;Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
- Perronet, Thompson family
- Spencer-Stanhope family of Cannon Hall Cannon Hall, Yorkshire
- Symonds, Loder- family of Hinton Manor Hinton Manor, Berkshire
- Trumbull family of Easthampstead Easthampstead, Berkshire;Beenham, Berkshire;Binfield, Berkshire;Great Shefford, Berkshire;Tilehurst, Berkshire;Wokingham, Berkshire;Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire;Ickford, Buckinghamshire;Egham, Surrey;East Harlsey, Yorkshire;Dundrum, County Down;Edenderry, County Offaly
- Wentworth family of Woolley Woolley, Yorkshire
- Wilson family, baronets, of Eshton Hall Eshton, Yorkshire
- Wilson family of Broomhead Broomhead, Yorkshire
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
Accessions
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