A brief history of Leeds elections and MPs
Leeds Election Special
C B Fry: Preaching cricket to the Nazis.
C B Fry’s attempts to persuade the Nazis of the virtues of cricket
“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
The Pudsey men who fought Napoleon
Pudsey's Waterloo heroes who helped Wellington to defeat Napoleon
The Leeds City & United footballer who won Olympic gold and met Mussolini.
The distinguished career of Ivan Sharpe
Whitsun, 1892 – Leeds Rifles on manoeuvres
Military skirmish between Horsforth and Cookridge
“Come on 13, give them hell!”
The young man who was the first of several hundred Leeds Pals to die on the first day of the Battle of the Somme
“The Beestons of Beeston” by Jim Marsden
At the time of the Conquest, and in the period immediately after, it was a custom amongst Norman individuals for the principal families, having lands in any locality, to be known by the name of the district. Examples of this at the time were the Rawdons of Rawdon, the Burleys of Burley, the Arthingtons of... Continue Reading →
“The History of Beeston” by Jim Marsden
After my late grandfather retired from the Police force in the late 1970s, he began to extensively research the history of Beeston, South Leeds, where he was born. Over many years, he accumulated a vast amount of notes, documents and photographs but never came close to writing it all up. I now have his considerable... Continue Reading →
