Community Archive Network Group

Over a decade ago the West Yorkshire Archive Service created the Community Archive Network Group as part of a National Lottery Heritage funded project ‘West Yorkshire: Our Stories’. The purpose of the network group was to offer guidance, support and training for the wonderful community archives across the region, many of which are run by …

20s Streets Local History Project

The West Yorkshire Archive Service (WYAS) were delighted to take part in The National Archive’s (TNA) local history project 20s Streets to coincide with the recent release of the 1921 Census. The TNA worked with four archives across the country to deliver the project, and we were delighted to be chosen alongside the Lancashire Archive, …

Palaeography: Challenge 3

Today’s document is brought to you from the fabulous Radcliffe of Rudding Park collection. The collection is a gold mine of weird and wonderful records but one set of documents in particular seems to get all the attention: “Radcliffe vs The Luddites: This Time it Gets Very Personal” (unofficial title, we usually shorten it to …

Living through history – help us tell the stories of your communities across West Yorkshire

We are living in extraordinary times and all of us are coming to terms with the changes that the Covid-19 global pandemic has made and continues to make in our lives and in our communities and families. The West Yorkshire Archive Service is the archive service for all five councils in West Yorkshire and we’ve …