To coincide with our new exhibition, Leodis: 400 years of Leeds in the Leeds Libraries Collection, which runs from Wednesday 16 September – Wednesday 11 November, Leeds Libraries are hosting a wide variety of workshops and events. All events are free but must be booked in advance. Maud Hummerston: the Storyteller of Leeds, Thursday 17…
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LEODIS: 400 Years of Leeds
Discover 400 years of Leeds’ history through the inspiring collections of Leeds Libraries – from 17th century manuscripts to football fanzines, via rare maps, photographs, film footage, memoirs, newspapers, pamphlets, and, of course, books. Explore some of the city’s richest treasures and learn more about how Leeds Libraries have preserved historically significant archives for past,…
REBIRTH – photographic exhibition
Leeds Central Library invited a group of Leeds Arts University photography students to examine the original photographs that formed the basis of the Leodis website. Their task was to select one or more photographs and produce a creative response. Six responses were selected by librarians to create an exhibition at the library. Here we hear…
A Selection of Botanical Treasures
Here at Leeds Central Library, we recently hosted a treasure handling workshop to show off a few more of our botanical items that we could not fit in our current exhibition – Unearthed: The Power of Gardening – at Leeds Central Library until 29 October 2025. First up was Flora Londinensis by William Curtis. This…
Robert Dawes of Temple Newsam
Today’s article, by Becky Bavill, forms part of a series of posts inspired by Unearthed: The Power of Gardening, an exhibition in partnership with the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network, at Leeds Central Library from 10 September – 29 October 2025. Inspired by our collaboration with the British Library, and the reading of a particularly…
Within Our Grasp: The archive as stimulus for a creative response
This week on the Secret Library Leeds blog we hear from a group of students who have been working on a project connected to Leodis, our online photographic archive. As third-year BA (Hons) Photography students at Leeds Arts University, we were invited to explore the Leodis photographic archive at Leeds Central Library and given a…
Football, fanzines and the media today
This week from heritage volunteer Pete Slater, who brings us part I of three articles exploring his research into the rich history of football fanzine culture. You can hear Pete talk about that research at a research showcase coming up on June 26 – part of the programme for the Voice of the Fans exhibition,…
Brigandines
This article is part of our series on the current Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition, taking place at the Central Library until January 2024… There are lots of exciting things to discover in the Local and Family History department at any time, but if you visit during the Fantasy exhibition, it’s even more exciting! Amongst…
