New Exhibition at Leeds – Sailing Through History

Although inland, Leeds Archive surprisingly holds a wide variety of nautical themed records across its collections. In a new exhibition at the Leeds archive a range of these records, such as photographs, port books, and impressment registers have been used to showcase West Yorkshire’s connections with the waves. This particular list of Seafaring men shows …

Christmas Gift Ideas

Christmas is almost upon us and if you are anything like this writer, the panic of not knowing what to get anyone is starting to take hold. Before the seasonal surge of fear begins to course through your veins, take a moment to exhale deeply and read this handy guide of pre-prepared gift ideas taken …

The Diary of Ensign John Carter

Thanks to our guest blogger, Emily Pomeroy, who wrote this piece as part of the MA module HIST5020M Making History: Archive Collaborations at the University of Leeds. John Carter Ensign John Carter was a soldier during the Peninsular War fought between Britain and Napoleonic France between 1807 and 1814. John's journal (Reference: WYL639/388B), which covers …

Ghostly Goings-On at the Calderdale Office

All the leaves are brown, and the skies are grey. The season is turning and the nights are drawing in, so in the run up to Halloween we at the Calderdale office thought it would be interesting to discover if we held anything… …supernatural… in our vast, ancient collections. The problem with finding ghost stories …