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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...


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This week on the Secret Library Leeds, Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder tells how moving to Yorkshire five years ago inspired him to compile a day-by-day historical anthology. One sunny day in spring 2021, we chugged cheerfully east along the M62 in a removal van on a roundabout route from Hackney to Headingley. The third lockdown was...


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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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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...


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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...


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