The Fairy Tale 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.

"Quick, Watson, hide, if you love me! And don't budge, whatever happens – do you hear me? Don't speak! Don't move! Just listen. Listen with all your ears..." Two thrilling tales featuring the greatest double act in literary history. In The Adventure of the Dying Detective Dr Watson does what he can to help Sherlock […]

Leeds was a lively place in this period with regular dances for the elite at the Assembly Rooms, horse racing meetings on Chapeltown Moor, cricket matches, athletics, gambling and boxing matches all being a feature of the social calendar. This lecture illustrates the extraordinary lengths the middling sort went to in order to enjoy themselves. […]

The Fairy Tale 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.  

The Fairy Tale 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.

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. […]

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 […]