A Dream of Leeds (Part 2)

Becky Bavill brings us the second part of this fascinating story of a musical life in Leeds… In the first part of this article, I had identified the author of the music and her family.  What I was interested in now were the two people Amelia’s father felt were important enough to him or his…

A Dream of Leeds (Part I)

This week on the Secret Library Leeds we welcome Library and Digital Assistant Becky Bavill for a deep-dive into the family history archives, all sparked by some cross-departmental collaboration with our colleagues in the Music Library… In a box in the music department is a printed pianoforte piece.  It’s called ‘The Dream’ by the late…