20809 Free Floating Dissertation (Women's History 1650 - 1950)

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  • Baines family, of Bell Hall: Including correspondence of successive generations of women, especially Mary Ann Verdon Baines, late 18th to early 20th centuries; accounts of Mary Robinson with various traders, 1675-1703 [DDBH]
  • Bosville-Macdonald family, of Thorpe: Including letters to Diana Bosville from her sisters and others, 1739-83 [DDBM]
  • Lady Mary Barbara Chichester (1801-1876): Including travel diaries and personal correspondence, 1820s-1870s [DDCH]
  • Miss C Collingwood, schoolteacher: Letters received about her pupils during their evacuation from Hull, 1939-40 [DX/164]
  • Constable-Maxwell family, of Everingham, and Terregles and Caerlaverock: Including account by Lady Winefred Maxwell of her husband’s escape from the Tower of London, post 1715; household accounts, 1647-1920 [DDEV]
  • Jane Conyers (d.1774), of Helmsley: Household accounts, 1768-86 [DDCV(2)/78/2]
  • Co-operative Women’s Guild (1883-to date): Including minutes, annual reports, annual congress papers, rules, speakers’ notes, photographs, reports, pamphlets and subject files, 1886-1971. Publications held in main library [DCW]
  • Cycling for Women: Including correspondence, press cuttings and ephemera, 1890s [DX/113]
  • Fanny Davis: Journal of voyage from Liverpool to China, 1871 [DP/195]
  • Forbes-Adam family, of Escrick: Including correspondence of successive generations of women, especially, Constance, Lady Wenlock, and her daughter Irene Lawley (later Forbes-Adam), 1870s-1950s [DDFA(3)]
  • Winifred Horrabin (1887-1971), socialist and writer: Including diaries, journals, notebooks, correspondence and writings, 1900s-1960s [DWH]
  • Hotham family, of South Dalton: Including correspondence, diaries, notebooks and scrap albums of Lady Frances Hotham, 1779 & 1830s-1857; account book of Lady Elizabeth Hotham, 1678-1697; household accounts, 1720s-1730s [DDHO]
  • International Co-operative Women’s Guild (1922-): Including minutes, files, reports, publications, conference papers and files on Emmy Freundlich, 1921-62 [DCX]
  • Anne Kerr (1925-1973), Labour MP: Including constituency and subject files on wide variety of political issues, especially the anti-Vietnam War/international peace movements, 1950s-1970s [DMK]
  • Lying-in charities, Beverley and Hull: Including financial records, rules, lists of visitors and minutes, 1812-1916 [DDCV/15/540-550]
  • Marrick Priory (1154-1539): Including charters, other title deeds and account rolls, 1154-1684 [DDCA(2)/29]
  • Joan Maynard (1921-1998), trade unionist and Labour MP: Draft biography, 1993 [DX/248]
  • National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty) (1934-to date): Including files on women’s rights, pamphlets, circulars and periodicals, 1940s onwards [DCL]
  • Mary Peacock (nee Howard) (1810-1887): Including diaries and correspondence, 1817-85 [DHD]
  • Ogle family, of Flamborough: Including correspondence of successive generations of women, 1740s-1830s [DOG]
  • Recipe books: See DX/180/1 and also in the Constable-Maxwell, Hotham, Pennington and Sykes collections [DDEV, DDHO, DDWA & DDSY]
  • Riddell family: Including letters from Laura Mary Riddell to her children, whilst living in India and Burma, 1882-90 [DRI]
  • Sarah Robinson, of Sunderland: Including correspondence, and personal, household and building accounts,1770-79 [DDCB]
  • Elizabeth Virgo Scarlett (d.1821): Including correspondence, accounts and other papers relating to sugar plantations in Jamaica and Peru, and to slaves, 1790s-1810s [DDLA/41]
  • Stevie Smith (1902-1971), poet and novelist: Draft of Novel on yellow paper and letters,1957. Special book collection also in Archives Reading Room [DP/156, 197].
  • Society of Friends/Quakers: Including minutes of Women’s Meetings in East and North Ridings, 17th to 19th centuries [DQR]
  • Edith Thompson (1848-1929), historian: Including letters from Edward A Freeman, 1868-92; papers relating to biography of grandfather Thomas Perronet Thompson [DX/9; DTH]
  • Julia Varley (1871-1952), trade unionist and suffragette: Including letters, poems, articles and photographs, 1880s-1950s [DJV]
  • Myfanwy Westrope (1885-1973), pacifist and member of Independent Labour Party: Including correspondence, poems and articles, 1917-1950s [DX/135]
  • Amicia Young (b.1914), Communist and member of British Campaign for Peace in Vietnam: Including correspondence, reports, posters and leaflets relating to Vietnam, 1960s [DYO/12]
  • Catherine Younge (d.1800): Including correspondence, accounts and title deeds (including deed of separation from her husband), 1750-1802 [DDDU]
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