Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips

Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle

George Walker’s watercolours for The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814

Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch

Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,

Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole

Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875

Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).

Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914

Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater

Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers

Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard

Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255

Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.

Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873

Photograph of Martin Luther King and students at coffee morning (University Archives, NUA/05289)

Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry

The Whitby Cartulary

‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet

Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record

‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'

Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form

Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery

Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum

Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914

Lord Mayor's correspondence from York servicemen, January-April 1915

Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester

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

First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association

Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839

University of Durham 1837 Charter

John Crossley and Sons Limited, carpet manufacturers of Dean Clough, Halifax, Centenary Illustration, 1903

Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’

High level Bridge, Newcastle

Baptism of Capability Brown

“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester

Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution

‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ by Barry Hines - first page

Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital

Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31

Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993

Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821

Birkenhead Park – sales plan

Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996

Photograph of Birtley Belgians

Domesday Book

RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord

Photograph of Bessemer Convertor

Alexandra Park

Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction

Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.

“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”

Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch

Photograph of Richard Shufflebottom’s Wild West show taken at Hull Fair, circa 1930

Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham

Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson

Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345

Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721

Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside

Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676

North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988

York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486

‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’

Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991

Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900

Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement

High level Bridge, Newcastle

Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph

The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837

Leeds City Varieties Poster advertising Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime, 1976

Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956

Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas

Mortality Map of Cholera in 1866

‘Our Northern Film Heritage’

Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.

Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)

Ferry boats

NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832

Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)

Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge