Just in time for Christmas, Local Studies brings you a tale of good deeds gone unrewarded, a distinct lack of human kindness, and Good Samaritan-ism coming back to haunt people. Who’s to say we aren’t festive folk in the library service? Never mind – the story here is of a stranger in a strange land

The latter half of the 19th century was a time of growth for Halifax and Calderdale. Alongside industrial development; municipal...

Lovers of poetry will be familiar with William Wordsworth, and with at least fragments if not the entirety of his five “ Lucy Poems” and...

Learn about Chartism and the Plug riots resources that we hold in Central Library A great piece by one of our team to accompany her...