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Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676
Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996
Photograph of Birtley Belgians
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
John Crossley and Sons Limited, carpet manufacturers of Dean Clough, Halifax, Centenary Illustration, 1903
Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement
Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316
Photograph of Martin Luther King and students at coffee morning (University Archives, NUA/05289)
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Alexandra Park
Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
Lanchester Diploma
RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord
Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole
‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Cunard Passenger List `Passengers for Halifax and Boston: No. 1' (Jul 1840-Dec 1844) 1 volume.
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Photograph of Richard Shufflebottom’s Wild West show taken at Hull Fair, circa 1930
York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909
Mortality Map of Cholera in 1866
The Whitby Cartulary
Domesday Book
Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993
Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956
Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction
Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991
Leeds City Varieties Poster advertising Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime, 1976
Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
Lord Mayor's correspondence from York servicemen, January-April 1915
Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,
Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Simon Temple's plan of Jarrow and the River Tyne
Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
George Walker’s watercolours for The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle
Baptism of Capability Brown
Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling Association
Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.
North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988
Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839
First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association
The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
University of Durham 1837 Charter
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle
Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
Everton FC Home Programme
Watersheddings
Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’
‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ by Barry Hines - first page
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Conveyance of the Ramsden (Huddersfield) Estates from Sir John Frecheville Ramsden to the Mayor Alderman and Burgesses of the County Borough of Huddersfield (Huddersfield Corporation) with full plans, 29 Sep 1920
Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)
Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas
Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
The Commission for the Execution of the 7th Earl of Northumberland
Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch
Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record
Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914
Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
Ferry boats
Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
Birkenhead Park – sales plan
Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits