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