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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Make ‘em Laugh 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.  

How did a 20th Century German art school that existed for only fourteen years become a pioneering centre for art and design? Why are modern chairs made from steel tubing? What makes road signs so easy to read? And what links twentieth-century textiles, furniture, ceramics and typography? The answers to these questions lead back to […]

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 […]

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 […]

A show in which the audience gets to choose which Edgar Allan Poe tales are performed! ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and many more! Edgar Allan Poe is played by award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin. No two performances will ever be the same! Full-blooded gothic melodrama brought to […]