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2025.13: Bradford and the industrial revolution: An economic history 1760-1840 A history of the industrial development of Bradford and its surrounding areas from the middle of eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. Discusses: land ownership; wealth distribution before the industrial revolution; the transport revolution, including the building of the cancals and railways; the importance of the mineral industries in the Bradford area; the rise of the worsted trade; the urban development of Bradford. -
2025.14: Kelly's directory of Bradford and suburbs 1912 A facsimile copy of Kelly's directory covering Bradford and the surrounding area including Baildon and Shipley (which included Saltaire). Comprises a brief introduction to Bradford and then listings: an alphabetical street list with occupants and their trades or form of employment; an alphabetical inhabitants list; a list of trades and tradespeople. -
2025.2: The Bradford Antiquary April 1952 The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society New Series Part 36 Apriil 1952, includes illustrations and maps -
2025.21: The Bradford Antiquary 2010 The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society Third series No.14 2010. -
2025.22: The Bradford Antiquary 2011 The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society Third series No.15 2011. -
2025.3: The Bradford Antiquary February 1956 The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society New Series Part 38 February 1956, includes illustrations -
D3-031a: Sunday with the Suffragettes A photocopy of a newspaper article from the Bradford Daily Telegraph describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd. Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and "Mrs Baines and others" also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd. -
D3-031b: Votes for women: Suffragettes at Shipley Glen A photocopy of a newspaper article from the Shipley Times and Express describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd (estimated to be several tens of thousands). Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and "Mrs Baines and others" also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd. -
D3-031c: Suffragettes at Shipley Glen: Great Sunday demonstration A photocopy of a newspaper article from the Yorkshire Daily Observer describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd (estimated to be several tens of thousands). Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and "Mrs Baines and others" also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd. -
D3-031d: Suffragettes at Shipley Glen: Great Sunday demonstration A photocopy of a newspaper article from an unnaed newspaper describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The article seems to be a copy of the one in the Yorkshire Daily Observer of 1 June - see D3-031c. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd (estimated to be several tens of thousands). Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and "Mrs Baines and others" also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd. -
2024.143: Old Ordnance Survey Map Shipley & Saltaire 1906 A reproduction of the 1906 Ordnance Survey Map, part of the Godfrey Edition. Yorkshire Sheet 201.11. On the back of the map there is modern text of a brief history of Shipley from 1775 up to the first years of the twentieth century. There is also a reproduction of a street index of Shipley from 1906. -
2025.20: The Bradford Antiquary 2009 The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society Third series No.13 2009. Mention of Titus Salt junior and Saltaire in the chapter entitled "Crowgill Park and the Crowghyll Park Bowling Green Club" by Ian Watson -
2025.29: Victorian shopping: Harrod's catalogue 1895 A facsimile reproduction of Harrod's catgalogue from 1895. Harrod's is an up-market department store in London. The catalogue contains Descriptions, illustrations and costs of all the items available in the store. Includes, household goods, clothing, funerary goods, haberdashery, pharmaceuticals, and office goods. -
2025.15: The aesthetics of Utopia: Saltaire, Akroydon and Bedford Park Discusses three model industrail villages built in the second half of the nineteenth century. Includes consideration fo their different architectural styles. Has chapeters on: Saltaire (italianate style), Akroydon (in Halifax, gothic style); Bedford Park (west London - QUeen Anne Revival) -
2025.16: Villages of vision: A study of strange utopias A detaled study of 'planned' villages - villages built for aesthetic, philanthropic or political reasons. Discusses such examples as New Lanark and Port Sunlight. Includes a brief section on Saltaire. -
2025.17: A time in our lives SUbtitled: 'a youth club in the West Riding of Yorkshire, revisited'. A history, written by one of teh members, of a youth club founded in Saltaire during the 1960s. Discusses why the group was founded, its cultural norms, its management and leadership, its relationships, its prominent figures, and the activities that were pursued. Also has accounts of how major events in the 1960s impacted on teh group and its individual members. -
2025.23: The Bradford Antiquary 2012 The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society Third series No.16 2012. Contains chapter entitled "The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition, Saltaire, 1887" by Letitia Lawson and a review of "The Land Acquisitions of Titus Salt in Shipley and Baildon " by Ian Watson
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