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

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

Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900

First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association

Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993

Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form

Ferry boats

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

The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837

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

Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345

“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester

Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital

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

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

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

Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch

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

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

George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822

Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling Association

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

Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips

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

Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway

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

Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956

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

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

Photograph of Bessemer Convertor

Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.

Lanchester Diploma

Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316

Domesday Book

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

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

Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits

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

Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge

Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater

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

Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction

Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996

Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum

Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839

RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord

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

Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard

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

High level Bridge, Newcastle

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

Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle

Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery

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

Baptism of Capability Brown

Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record

Alexandra Park

Birkenhead Park – sales plan

Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914

Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers

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

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

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

Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,

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

Mortality Map of Cholera in 1866

Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole

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

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

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

Photograph of Birtley Belgians

Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution

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

‘Our Northern Film Heritage’

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

Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255

Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991

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

Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce

University of Durham 1837 Charter