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