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