The purpose of this series of articles is to demonstrate how you can use the resources of the Local and Family History department to conduct a fact checking exercise. Family historians will frequently encounter assertions, facts and descriptions that seem completely reasonable, but turn out to be totally incorrect. Sometimes you will never know the…
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Family History Fact Checking – Part 1
This week we welcome back Becky from the Local and Family History Library who tells us about a recent enquiry and how she went about solving it. The enquiry came from a customer keen to track down a photo of a home that their family used to inhabit: I am trying to find a photograph…
The King of the Pantomime Writers: R. C. Oldham (1873-1933)
This week on the Secret Library Leeds, librarian Antony Ramm brings you some festive joy with a sequel to an article originally published in 2017… We sometimes like to say that one of the values of the Secret Library Leeds website is that the articles and the content remain permanently out there on the information…
In search of Morley Museum – Part 3
The third part of Joey Talbot’s trilogy of articles exploring the collections of the Morley Museum. Part 1 and Part 2 were published over the last two weeks and we strongly recommend reading them before diving into this final section…. So now we come to the third part of the story of the Morley Museum….
In search of Morley Museum – Part 2
Part two of Joey Talbot’s trilogy of articles on the mysteries and wonders of Morley Museum. Part one was published last week – we recommend reading before starting part two… In a spacious room on the first floor of the Morley Library building there was once a museum. In the previous article, I introduced this…
In search of Morley Museum – Part 1
In this set of articles by Joey Talbot, Secret Library Leeds becomes Secret Library Morley, as we go in search of the many treasures that could once be found within the walls of the Morley Museum. This is part one of a three part series – keep an eye out for parts two and three…
James Potter Schofield (1849-1892)
Earlier this year a new Red Plaque was unveiled in honour of James Potter Schofield, former fireman in the Liverpool & London & Globe Brigade. Schofield was killed on duty tackling the 1892 Leeds New Station fire. The plaque has been installed at the Dark Arches entrance to the station, off Neville Street, on behalf…
Coasts Between
This week on the Secret Library Leeds we bring you a snapshot of a unique treasure held as part of our Special Collections: Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer’s A description of the sea coastes of England between Burnham & Scarborough….This wonderful sea chart was shown to the public during our Local and Family History open day in…
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