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