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