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Official Visits to Leeds1 week

This week we welcome back Heritage Volunteer Andy who has returned to share his research of council papers, this time in search of official visits to Leeds. Hi. My name’s Andy Armstrong and I have taken on the task of sifting through 200 years of Leeds CC papers held by the library to bring some...

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Willie Riley’s Windyridge1 week

Library and Digital Assistant Jan Pinder shares her research into Yorkshire author Willy Riley and his most famous novel Windyridge written in 1911. A visitor to the village of Hawksworth near Guiseley today would have no inkling of the hive of activity it would have been a hundred years ago. This was all due to...

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The Murky History of the Kingdom of Elmet – Part Two3 weeks

This week we welcome back Wren Rowan to complete their article on the Kingdom of Elmet. Read part one before beginning this article. So what do we know of the people of Elmet? And how do we know it? After over 3 centuries of Roman rule, most of the people in Britain could be fairly...

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