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Includes various editions of the YMS newsletter, 2011-2016.

Minute books relating to the operational activities of the York Musical Theatre Company.

Papers relating to the management of productions produced by the Company.

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Includes programmes and other papers from various performances.

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Includes two files of general newspaper clippings and several files of clippings relating to specific individuals and places.

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Includes general memorabilia including dinner menus and programmes; and printing blocks and branded material.

Various photographs with indexes of Holgate and Acomb. Also includes slides of Acomb and of York generally as well as some reproductions and photocopies of Front Street in Acomb.

At present this collection only comprises four photographs of various teams and, in some cases, their families. Due to the very poor condition of the photographs and mounting boards, these photographs cannot be produced and will require conservation work.

Correspondence files of partners and staff members, unrelated to specific schemes of work. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Records relating to poor relief after the Poor Law Amendment Act,1834. For records of the York Poor Law Union [1837-1930] and Public Assistance Committee [1930-1948] see reference: PLU

Comprises records of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.

Includes minutes of proceedings, annual reports, financial papers, subscription papers, lists of subscribers and correspondence files.

Includes records relating to York Castle Museum

Promotional brochure detailing the history of York Mansion House. Created for commerical purposes, advertising York Mansion House as a venue for occasions and events. Also contains images.

The collection comprises school magazines only.

Log books for Castlegate School

Comprises declaration and copy conveyance.

Comprises notices from the Board of Guardians; memorandum; abstract of title; and division of proceeds of sale.

Hotel offered for sale following a case in Chancery [Wilkinson versus Wilkinson]. The Guardians purchased the hotel for the purpose of erecting new poor law offices.

Comprises correspondence; papers relating to sale and purchase; and historic title deeds s for Etridge's Royal Hotel.

Comprises sale of land; correspondence; copy of Workshouse Committee's resolutions

Comprises papers regarding loans for buildign work; lists of tenders received; agreements with tradesmen; and statement of costs.

Tenders from pharmacy suppliers

Tenders from bedstead suppliers

Includes admission and discharge books for the inmates of the York Workhouse (later called the City Institution and The Grange); admission and discharge books for the casual (wandering) poor; and porters' admission and discharge books.

Includes patients' registers; records relating to lunatics; and relief for patients in sick wards. Records are primarily from the mid-twentieth century.

Comprises registers of staff and registers of leave
See also PLU/11/3/5 for Workhouse staff wages receipt books.

The letters are from Mrs C Taylor and John Forth. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series, including full transcripts of each letter.

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Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series, including a synopsis of each letter.

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The Town Clerk's files relating to health and health services in York. Files comprise correspondence and associated papers. See also Y/HEA/1/3

Town Clerk's correspondence files concerning the Health Committee and matters of public health. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence. See also Y/HEA/1/2

General administrative papers relating to the operation and maintenance of the York Maternity Hospital.

E93: 1718-1755
E94: 1755-1782
E95: 1782-1802
E96: 1802-1815
E97: 1815-1827
E98: 1827-1866

This series of conveyances includes a number issued by the Corporation of York and others issued by third parties, relating to land and premises in the City of York area. Also includes property files such as commercial conveyances, purchases/acquisitions, title enquiries, commercial/business leases, deeds and title documents for various lands owned by City of York Council.

Comprises order books of relief granted by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee. Also includes register of individual paupers relieved by the York Out-Relief Union.

Summary accounts of monies received by the relieving officer and amounts of relief charged to each parishes/ward.

Note, these records contain very few names of individuals. Individuals are only recorded where their particular case has incurred extra costs.

Comprises relief and expenditure books for the York Poor Law Union, York Out-Relief Union, Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, Escrick Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

Comprises approved minutes of the Collecting Committee of the York Poor Law Union and the Collecting Sub-Committee of the Public Assistance Committee.
PLU/1/4/1-8 are combined minutes of the York Union Collecting Committee and the York Out-Relief Union Collecting Committee

Includes minutes of all committees connected to the administration and maintenance of the York Union Workhouse (later the City Institution and then The Grange)

Approved bound minutes of Hodgson's Charity.

Items relating to the will and bequests of Eustachius Strickland.

Includes letters of support, project evaluation and financial statement, press cuttings, workshop entitled 'responses to First World War conscription,' exhibition publicity and programme November 2017, transcript of correspondence and copies of three publications.

These numbered volumes contain newspaper clippings and handwritten notes, and are arranged by theme. Titles include actors, glass painting, oil and china painting, cloud waves and glossary.

The volumes contain newspaper clippings and handwritten notes on Yorkshire churches, church architecture and York Minster, whilst the additional papers include typescripts of articles written by J A Knowles and information on specific windows in York Minster and elsewhere.

The volumes primarily include handwritten notes by J W Knowles, and newspaper cuttings on theatrical productions, theatres, actors and actresses. The series also includes theatrical programmes for a number of theatres, including York Theatre Royal and the Grand Opera House, and theatrical magazines.

Manuscripts created by John Alder Knowles in the course of his work and covering a variety of different subjects, including glass making, books and writers.

This series includes notebooks which cannot be attributed to either John Ward Knowles or John Alder Knowles specifically, as well as magazines and prints which were retained by one of the parties for future reference.

These negatives and postcards were originally individually labelled by J W Knowles, and stored in poor quality envelopes. During the process of cataloguing, these items were repackaged into archival quality envelopes, and the details on the original envelopes transferred to the catalogue descriptions. This information now appears in the 'Title' field. Please see individual item descriptions for full details of this extensive series.

Please note, reference numbers KNO/24/2011 to KNO/24/2199 were not used.

The items in this series were created by members of the extended Knowles family, however they can no longer be attributed to one family member in particular.

Seals which have become detached from the city charters (see Y/ADM/1/1), and seal impressions.

Records concerning marketing, publicity and media relations relating to York City Council..

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section on a regular basis as they are catalogued..

Records concerning marketing, publicity and media relations relating to local government..

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section on a regular basis as they are catalogued..

Records produced by the Publiciy Department of local government..

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section on a regular basis as they are catalogued..

Bound copy of act

Includes papers relating to the bestowing of the honorary Freedom of the City on various individuals, as well as the organisation of First World War peace celebrations, and visits by foreign dignitories.

Wages books for temporary members of staff of the Streets and Buildings Department of the council.

These cards are later referred to as wages record sheets.

Papers concerning the establishment and allocation of staff salaries

The inner wrapper says 'Deeds up to 1839' relating to a close at Askham Richard purchased off Mr J Calvert’s Trustees.

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Includes one lease, one account of goods purchased and one account of fixtures.

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Includes three leases and releases.

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Includes correspondence and reports relating to the guilds in various other locations.

Includes catalogues for a variety of exhibitions staged by the Guild, and, in some cases, associated correspondence.

Includes names and addresses of members of the National Guild.

Includes bundles of adverts and associated correspondence, as well as notes on publishing and publicity.

Published journals issued to members of the Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers. 19340-1951 are missing.

Legal papers relating to land purchase for school areas, and additional purchases and abstracts of title.

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Includes probate documentation, sale and purchase of propert and draft conveyance, as well as some additional loose items.

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Receipted household accounts for Mr H Teasdale, solicitor, and E Robinson. Teasdale originally lived at Grove Park Avenue, Clifton, and later at The Willows, The Avenue, Clifton. The receipts are pinned together and rolled into tight bundles. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Ledger books for Walker & Co., ranging from 1929-1970.

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It is believed that James Andrew Knowles worked for Walker & Co. Includes personal receipts, correspondence, financial papers and financial and legal documents of St Hilda's Church.

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Copies, usually printed, of the resolutions agreed at Association meetings.

Includes the wapentakes of Birdforth and Allertonshire, Bulmer, Langbargh, Pickering Lyth, Ryedale, Skyrack, Staincliffe and Ewecross and Whitby Strand.

Includes a black volume relating to accommodation in inns, broadsheets of corresponding Associations, and an address to the Yorkshire Committee dated 1 January 1781.

Letters primarily relating to family matters.

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Comprises poor rate books for parishes within the city area of the York Poor Law Union. Also includes some lighting rate books.

Information recorded for each rateable property may include: name of occupier; name of owner; description of property (e.g. house, garden, public house); name and situation of property; rateable value of property; amount of rate; amount of rate collected.

Note that earlier rate books may not include a street address for the property.

Collection and deposit books were records of accounts kept by the Collector of Poor Rates. They record all sums received, deposited and paid by the Collector. Also includes one volume of Collector's monthly statements.

Note, these records do not contain details of individuals or properties.

Includes books for the following parishes: St Maurice; St Giles; and St Cuthbert, St Helen on the Walls and All Saints, Peasholme

Publications and printed literature on smoke abatement and atmospheric pollution

Comprises incoming and outgoing correspondence of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Commitee.

Summary statistics compiled by the York Poor Law Union (the including Out-Relief Unions)and Public Assistance Committee for reporting to central government officials.

Comprises weekly and annual returns and monthly statistics.

Printed orders from the Poor Law Board and later the Local Government Board to the York Poor Law Union.

Marriott taught modern history at Oxford University from 1884 to 1920, based at Worcester College. He was later elected Member of Parliament for the city from 1917 to 1920. These papers include newspaper cuttings and relate to his teaching career and his career as a politician.

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Includes newspaper cuttings and notes relating to Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Austria and Hungary, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, the Falkland Islands, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malta, the Middle East, Palestine, Poland, the Soviet Union, Spain, Turkey, the United States of America and the West Indies.

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Includes notebooks on English history generally, as well as the reigns of particular monarchs. Also includes lectures notes on the history, and the English Civil War in particular.

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Includes newspaper cuttings, book extracts and handwritten notes on communism, the rise of fascism, the results of the First World War, the League of Nations, foreign relations and life on the Home Front in the Second World War.

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Includes handwritten notebooks relating to various aspects of British history, politics, the economy, foreign policy and the industrial revolution, as well as other related topics.

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Volumes of autographs collected by Sir John Marriott. The volumes also include biographical information on some of the signatories.

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A collection of journals, parliamentary papers and other published works retained by John Arthur Ransome Marriott in the course of his working life. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed infomation about the contents of this series.

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Includes papers relating to railways, horse trams, trolleybuses and electrobuses, boats and the Sheppee Steam Company.

Files relating to heraldry in York and elsewhere. Includes transcripts of a series of lectures carried out by Hugh Murray on the subject, and details of ecclesiastical heraldry. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes historical information and research notes on the development of public toilets in York city centre. Includes some secondary source material. In particular the information relates to the outbreaks of cholera.

Includes maps, a booklet with sketches, correspondence, notes relating to York, Beverley and Scarborough, and drafts of Hugh Murrays book on town plans.

Includes typescript pages, list of Peckitt works, notes relating to the genealogy of Peckitt and Fenton, papers by Brighton and photocopied articles.

Includes newspaper cuttings, secondary source material and handwritten notes regarding the supply of electricity to York and the history of street furniture.

Files relating to the history of the Pearson room at Leeds Metropolitan University.