The role of Leeds in the anti-slavery movement.
A Brief History of Anti-Slavery in Leeds
“The Headingley Two” – No Vote, No Sport, No Peace!
On 24 November 1913 two suffragettes broke into Headingley Stadium intent on burning it down.
A Brief History of Wife Selling in Leeds
Two of the most recent cases of wife selling in England took place in Leeds
Lillie Lenton – the woman who escaped from Armley Gaol
The extraordinary life of the “Elusive Suffragette”
Ghosts, hell-hounds & body-snatchers – a Halloween guide to Leeds City Centre.
A guide to the ghostly, ghoulish & grisly sites of Leeds.
Ethel at the Gate
One of the most striking monuments at Lawnswood Cemetery is the Preston Memorial
Secret Spaces: Rawdon Billing
A walk around Rawdon Billing, as featured on Radio Leeds’s Secret Spaces
Boy John Helston (1899-1916)
Among the 23 Commonwealth war graves in Horsforth Cemetery is that of John Helston, a boy of the Royal Navy. This is his story. John was born John Elston (it is not entirely clear when he acquired the ‘H’ of ‘Helston’) on 12 April 1899, in Keighley. He was one of five children of John... Continue Reading →
A Local History Walk Around Leeds’s Civic Quarter
A one-mile walk taking in the history of Leeds’s Civic Quarter
