Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch

Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345

Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909

Cunard Passenger List `Passengers for Halifax and Boston: No. 1' (Jul 1840-Dec 1844) 1 volume.

The Whitby Cartulary

Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital

The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester

Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph

Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge

Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931

Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery

‘Our Northern Film Heritage’

Birkenhead Park – sales plan

Alexandra Park

Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.

Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch

Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839

Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole

Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form

Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce

University of Durham 1837 Charter

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

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

Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828

Photograph of Birtley Belgians

Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993

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

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

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

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

‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'

Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits

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

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

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

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

Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255

Watersheddings

Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips

Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900

Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316

“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester

The Commission for the Execution of the 7th Earl of Northumberland

Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956

York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486

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

“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

Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum

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

Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers

Domesday Book

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

Lanchester Diploma

Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard

Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle

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

Baptism of Capability Brown

Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966

First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association

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

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

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

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

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

Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution

Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721

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

Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater

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

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

Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway

Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction

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

Everton FC Home Programme

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

RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord

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

Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850

Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record