Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721

Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record

Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole

Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996

Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).

Lanchester Diploma

First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association

Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle

Birkenhead Park – sales plan

Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909

University of Durham 1837 Charter

Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931

Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345

Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.

Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge

Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph

Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676

Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham

Domesday Book

Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution

Photograph of Martin Luther King and students at coffee morning (University Archives, NUA/05289)

Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850

‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ by Barry Hines - first page

Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement

John Crossley and Sons Limited, carpet manufacturers of Dean Clough, Halifax, Centenary Illustration, 1903

North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988

York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486

Simon Temple's plan of Jarrow and the River Tyne

“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”

Baptism of Capability Brown

Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914

Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)

Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle

‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet

Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873

Ferry boats

Mortality Map of Cholera in 1866

Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson

Photograph of Birtley Belgians

Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875

Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31

Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,

‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’

Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction

High level Bridge, Newcastle

George Walker’s watercolours for The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814

Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch

The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837

Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas

Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255

NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832

Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828

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

Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers

‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'

Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993

Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry

The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester

Cunard Passenger List `Passengers for Halifax and Boston: No. 1' (Jul 1840-Dec 1844) 1 volume.

Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316

High level Bridge, Newcastle

Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits

Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital

Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914

Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater

Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956

Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch

‘Our Northern Film Heritage’

Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839

Leeds City Varieties Poster advertising Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime, 1976

George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822

Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991

Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821

Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway

Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside

Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips

Watersheddings

Photograph of Richard Shufflebottom’s Wild West show taken at Hull Fair, circa 1930

Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’

Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard