Students from the University of Leeds tackle some important hidden histories in Leeds Libraries’ local collections Ben Beard, Grace Deane, Niave Kilkelly & Nic McDowell – Supervised by Dr Yuexin Rachel Lin On 3 June 1917, as the First World War entered its third gruelling year, more than one thousand delegates from trade unions, left-wing…
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The Portraits of John Atkinson Grimshaw
This week Jan Pinder concludes the Atkinson Grimshaw journey with an exploration of his, perhaps lesser known, beautiful portrait paintings. John Atkinson Grimshaw is most famous for his landscapes and in previous blog articles we have focused on his nocturnal scenes of urban lanes and his atmospheric paintings of the centre of Leeds. However, Grimshaw…
Family History Fact Checking – Part 3
This is part three of a four part article by Becky, looking at the Peaches Cottage in Middleton. Read part one and part two before we continue the search. Continuing our journey into the history of Peaches Cottage in Middleton I am going to start looking at another family whose name has been strongly linked…
Grimshaw’s Leeds
In today’s article Jan Pinder takes us on a journey across Leeds through the eyes of renowned artist John Atkinson Grimshaw with modern comparable images of the city today. John Atkinson Grimshaw was one of the most significant artists of the late Victorian era, with a distinct style inspired partly by his fascination with the…
Bury the Leeds
This week we hear from guest author Tom. Tom has launched Bury the Leeds, a local history newsletter that may well be of interest to readers of the Secret Library Leeds… My name is Tom and I publish an email newsletter called Bury the Leeds. I discuss some of the weird and obscure stories about this…
Hear, read and see the Voice of the Fans
Leeds Libraries and the British Library are delighted to welcome the opening today (Friday May 9) of their co-production Voice of The Fans – a free exhibition exploring the past, present, and future of football fanzine culture. Voice of the Fans features over 50 fanzines and fair few more objects and items. But, as you…
A Snowy Day in Bardsey
They say April is the cruellest month, but we reckon it’s March. Getting January and February out of the way can give the misleading comfort of thinking Winter has been and gone…only for March’s revenge: wind, rain, and, of course, snow: the dreaded Fool’s (or False) Spring. What weather will the rest of this March…
Women from Leeds you probably haven’t heard of…
This year to celebrate International Women’s Day, Library and Digital Assistant Alexandra Brummitt takes a closer look at the lives and works of some lesser-known feminist pioneers that lived in Leeds. International Women’s Day is held on March 8th every year and is a global celebration of the social, economic and political achievements of women….
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