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Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce
Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Lanchester Diploma
The Whitby Cartulary
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
University of Durham 1837 Charter
Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas
Photograph of Martin Luther King and students at coffee morning (University Archives, NUA/05289)
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater
Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry
The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester
Birkenhead Park – sales plan
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486
Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839
Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345
Leeds City Varieties Poster advertising Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime, 1976
Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’
Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole
Alexandra Park
Everton FC Home Programme
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956
Ferry boats
‘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
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316
Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record
Watersheddings
The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837
Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993
Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
High level Bridge, Newcastle
North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988
Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association
Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle
Baptism of Capability Brown
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement
Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
The Commission for the Execution of the 7th Earl of Northumberland
Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)
