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 Website: [http://www.wyjs.org.uk/archives/contact-us-and-opening-times/bradford-archive-service-opening-times-and-information/ Bradford Archives]
-:In 1974 the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council set up an Archive Department housed in Bradford Central Library. The Department became part of West Yorkshire Archive Service in 1982.
+:A range of talks are available to groups and organisations who would like to find out more about our Archive Service. In our talks we aim to explain the work we do and help to raise public awareness of our collections and expertise. We offer many different talks, details of which and how to book can be found here.  This is also applicable to the four archives below.
 ==== Calderdale Archives  ====
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 Email: [mailto:calderdale@wyjs.org.uk calderdale@wyjs.org.uk]<br>
 Website: [http://www.wyjs.org.uk/archives/contact-us-and-opening-times/calderdale-archive-service-opening-times-and-information/ Calderdale Archives]
-:A range of talks are available to groups and organisations who would like to find out more about our Archive Service. In our talks we aim to explain the work we do and help to raise public awareness of our collections and expertise. We offer many different talks, details of which and how to book can be found here.
 ==== Kirklees Archives  ====
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 Email: [mailto:beverley.library@eastriding.gov.uk beverley.library@eastriding.gov.uk]<br>
 Website: [http://www2.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/library-finder/?entryid72=79538 Beverley Library]
+:Access to research papers, academic articles, Ordnance Survey maps, phone directories and local family history information.
 ==== Brynmor Jones Library  ====
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 Email: [mailto:archives@exploreyork.org.uk archives@exploreyork.org.uk]<br>
 Website: [https://www.exploreyork.org.uk/archives/our-collections/ York Library]
+:Documents dating back to 1155 from City of York Council and its predecessors are held in the civic archive.  Our community collections include personal and family papers as well as the records of York-based charities, businesses and community groups.
 === SOUTH YORKSHIRE  ===
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 Email: [mailto:central.lending@sheffield.gov.uk central.lending@sheffield.gov.uk]<br>
 Website: [https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries Sheffield Central Library]
+:City Archives & Local Studies have countless hundreds of thousands of items which amount to almost 10 kilometres of books and documents.  The Sheffield Archives online catalogue contains information about the collections held by Sheffield Archives, relating to Sheffield, South Yorkshire and parts of north east Derbyshire.
 === WEST YORKSHIRE  ===