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…

Football Fanzines: Creating ‘The List’

Part II of heritage volunteer Pete Slater’s trilogy of articles based on his research into football fanzine history. 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, a co-production from Leeds Libraries and the British…

Jobs for the Girls – can you help?

This week on the Secret Library we hear from author Ysenda Maxtone Graham, who is looking for contributors to her next book… I’m an author and journalist called Ysenda Maxtone Graham. The book I’m writing at the moment is going to be called Jobs for the Girls, all about what happened to women in the years…

I am the merry-go-round horse dragging up the earth beneath me. Part 1

This week on the Secret Library we hear from Dr Charlotte Cullen. Charlotte, who is an artist, researcher, serf member and lecturer in Fine Art at York St John University, has been working with the Leeds Central Library Collections during lockdown with a focus on Armley to create newly inspired artwork. This project has been…