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.

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 […]

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, […]

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.

For much of its life Commercial Street’s shops have commanded the highest rentals per square foot of any in Leeds. Its creators in 1806 intended it to become a street of fine shops and important institutions, linking the exclusive residential streets of the Park Estate to the vibrant market street of Briggate. It soon became […]

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.

Take your favourite paperback from dull to fab in just one day. Using a variety of decorative papers, this class will help you rebind your paper back books into a hardback volume suited to the contents. Starting with removing the original cover, this class will cover creating endpapers, measuring for your text block, creating your […]