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 …

Lieutenant Colonel Tetley’s Diary

Our guest blog post today comes from Alexander Hail, student at the University of Leeds. As part of HIST2505 Archive Intelligence: Unlocking the Archive, Alexander researched the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Tetley, written between 1915 and 1918 and explores what it can tell us about the First World War. The Great War saw the culmination of …

West Yorkshire Queer Stories

What is West Yorkshire Queer Stories? Here at West Yorkshire Archive Service Leeds, we are the custodians of the West Yorkshire Queer Stories archive and website, which contains an incredible collection of LGBTQ+ stories from across the region throughout the decades. How did the Queer Stories project begin? Queer Stories grew out of an arts …

Mary Armstrong: Housekeeper

By: Bri Praslicka We are thrilled to post a blog written by guest blogger, Bri Praslicka, a remote volunteer who has been working on transcribing pages from 18th century Kitchen Accounts in the archives of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal and their successive owners.  The accounts were produced by housekeeper Mary Armstrong and whilst we …