Archive collections

The Archives of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society contain material deposited with or donated to the Society.

Our collections include estate papers, family archives, personal archives including notes of archaeologists, historians and antiquaries, maps, plans, pedigrees, deeds, wills, and manorial court rolls.

The archives also hold a number of transcripts of parish registers and monumental inscriptions for many places in Yorkshire

 

Highlights of the collection include the Thoresby manuscripts, papers of antiquary and collector Bradfer-Lawrence, Wakefield Court rolls, Clifford of Skipton papers, Middleton of Stockeld collection, Whixley cartulary, papers of the antiquarian scholar Roger Dodsworth, Ella S. Armitage’s notebooks on castles and Anglo-Saxon churches, and heraldic manuscripts by William Dugdale.

Archive catalogues

Our printed catalogues and handlists can be consulted at Claremont.

Some of our catalogues are available online through the Access to Archives website
or the West Yorkshire Archives Service online catalogue

A catalogue of all the collections held in the archives will be on this website soon.

For a list of parish register transcripts in the archives click the side button.

For a list of monumental inscriptions in the archives click the side button.

New archive accessions are fully listed in the Society’s Annual Report.

When you contact the archives the archivist will be able to advise you if the YAS archives hold material relevant to your research, however, detailed research cannot be undertaken on your behalf.