A brief history of Leeds elections and MPs
Leeds Election Special
“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”
Ethel at the Gate
One of the most striking monuments at Lawnswood Cemetery is the Preston Memorial
Dropped for being a mum: Olympic heartbreak of Leeds swim star who raced in Berlin, 1936.
Doris Storey reached the final at Hitler’s Olympics and won two golds at the Empire Games but was omitted from the London 1948 squad because she was a wife and mother.
Ivy Benson – the Leeds star who played in Berlin on VE Day
At the special request of Field Marshal Montgomery, the first act booked for VE Day was a female bandleader from Leeds
A brief history of the suffragette movement in Leeds
Some notable events in the history of women's suffrage in Leeds
“Take that, you brute!”
The suffragette from Leeds who attacked Winston Churchill with a whip
The Dripping Riots of Leeds, 1865
When the dismissal of a cook led to riots on the streets of Leeds
