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Collection of portraits of young women commissioned for use in Aero chocolate advertising from 1950 to 1957.

Digital photographs of stained glass windows (Medieval and later) from French and British cathedrals and churches.

Digitised glass slides of the notable Yorkshire plant nursery, dated circa 1891.

Photographs documenting the University's history from the 1960s to the present, covering campus life and environment.

The wartime diaries of Lord Halifax, 1940-1946, written for and circulated to his family. They contain both personal and political matters.

A searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the diocese of York.

Historic chapbooks from the 18th and 19th centuries, small paper-covered booklets containing folk tales, ballads, poetry, and popular literature, mostly published on Colliergate in York.

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