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

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

The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester

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

Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956

Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255

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

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

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

Everton FC Home Programme

Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement

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

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

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

Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914

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

Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991

RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord

Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900

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

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

Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721

Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839

Ferry boats

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

Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers

‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'

Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909

Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution

Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling Association

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

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

The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837

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

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

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

Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction

Watersheddings

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

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

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

‘Our Northern Film Heritage’

Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway

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

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

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

George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822

Baptism of Capability Brown

Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips

Domesday Book

Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345

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

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

Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996

Photograph of Bessemer Convertor

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

Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater

Lanchester Diploma

Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.

Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch

Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph

Birkenhead Park – sales plan

Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle

Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,

Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce

Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits

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

Simon Temple's plan of Jarrow and the River Tyne

Mortality Map of Cholera in 1866

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

Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch

Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum

The Whitby Cartulary

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

Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form

Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital

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

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

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

Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993