The Western 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. Members please note the […]

Have you ever wondered what the daily lives of the women of Classical Athens was like? Much scholarship follows the men in their lives, at the forum, socialising about town, at war and in sport, but the lives of women are far less well known. In this talk, Dr Katherine Backler aims to illuminate what […]

The Western 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. PLEASE NOTE: This event […]

The Western 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.  

Torn? Pages falling out? Put away the tape and find out how to stabilise and repair your most loved books. Aimed at those wanting to preserve their own collection. We'll go through assessing your book for repair (paper quality, type of damage, type of binding), how to safely take it apart, and how to put […]

The Western 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. PLEASE NOTE: This event […]

Missing or soon to be missing spine? Covers falling off? Loose sewing? This class will take you through assessing your hardback cloth-bound book for repair, how to choose suitable materials to work with, and how to repair some of the more common problems with your books. Aimed at those looking to repair their own collection, […]

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. […]