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A new exhibition of local artists at one of Leeds’ oldest cultural institutions, right in the heart of the city. "Art at No.15 is a contemporary art collective dedicated to showcasing and supporting artists from Yorkshire and the North. Through exhibitions, events and creative collaborations, we celebrate local talent while building connections with cultural partners […] |
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Have you ever walked past The Leeds Library on Commercial Street and wanted to find out more about our beautiful building and its collection? …Then book a free tour! The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving members’ subscription library in the UK. Founded in 1768, the Library moved to its current purpose-built premises on Commercial […]
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The It’s So Good It’s Criminal Season Please note that due to licensing restrictions, you must be a member of the Leeds Library to attend this screening, and we are not able to advertise details of the film publicly beforehand. Join fellow Members of the Library for an afternoon in front of the silver screen. |
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A five-day course running from Monday 5th October to Friday 9th October, every day from 10:30am to 4:30pm. Popular between the 14th and 16th century, this unique book style was used to make a portable binding for reading on the go. Made in both leather, alum-tawed skin, and fabrics, they feature in artwork and marginal decorations of the time period in different formats and sizes. […]
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Have you ever walked past The Leeds Library on Commercial Street and wanted to find out more about our beautiful building and its collection? …Then book a free tour! The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving members’ subscription library in the UK. Founded in 1768, the Library moved to its current purpose-built premises on Commercial […] |
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Books and Bubbles Librarian's tour of The Leeds Library: Exclusive, in-depth tours of the library and its treasures with one of our librarians and a glass of fizz* Take the opportunity for a behind-the-scenes tour of the oldest surviving subscription library in the country. You’ll be guided by one of our librarians, and invited to […] |
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The It’s So Good It’s Criminal Season Please note that due to licensing restrictions, you must be a member of the Leeds Library to attend this screening, and we are not able to advertise details of the film publicly beforehand. Join fellow Members of the Library for an afternoon in front of the silver screen. |
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Have you ever walked past The Leeds Library on Commercial Street and wanted to find out more about our beautiful building and its collection? …Then book a free tour! The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving members’ subscription library in the UK. Founded in 1768, the Library moved to its current purpose-built premises on Commercial […]
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William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937), a son of Leeds and member of a prominent Leeds Quaker family is best known today – if he’s known at all – as a writer of weird tales. The most famous of these is ‘The Beast with Five Fingers’ was adapted for film in 1946 and has some claim to […]
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Please be aware that due to licencing restrictions we cannot advertise the details of the films we show online. Please ask at the library counter for information, or look for a poster on the library premises. You must be a Member of the library to attend this club. |
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Have you ever walked past The Leeds Library on Commercial Street and wanted to find out more about our beautiful building and its collection? …Then book a free tour! The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving members’ subscription library in the UK. Founded in 1768, the Library moved to its current purpose-built premises on Commercial […] |
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Yorkshire-born Sophia Gray’s wide-ranging legacy is little known in the northern hemisphere. In South Africa however Gray is widely acknowledged and still fêted as the country’s first woman architect, credited with designing, adapting and administering the construction and alteration of 100 buildings between 1848 and 1871. This talk will explore aspects of Gray’s life in […] |
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Step beyond Yorkshire's familiar landscapes and into its shadowy past with Paranormal Yorkshire, the captivating new book by Meryl James. From ancient manor houses and medieval castles to lonely bridges, theatres, museums and wild coastal stretches, Yorkshire is rich in stories of ghostly encounters and unexplained phenomena. Drawing on tales from across the county, the […] |
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This talk will examine the historic account of the haunting that occurred at the Leeds Library in the 1880s, looking at the individuals involved in the case and why in fact a librarian needed a gun! Fast forward to the 1960s, what did former president of the library—the controversial Trevor Hall—uncover when he re-examined the […] |
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