We’re getting ready to record a podcast episode about the railways in Halifax, to go out later this year, and it seemed like a good time...

After Part One came out, I began asking around within my professional (and unprofessional – we library people run in packs) circles...

While rummaging through yet another Pamphlet Box – the “unidentified photographs” one – I came across this small sketch. On the back was...

Library assistant’s image: Todmorden Hippodrome’s proscenium stage set-up for the Todmorden Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society’s...

What with pub culture being so prevalent in Britain, it’s easy to forget that the Temperance movement – think teetotallers, abstention,...

When you think of Victorian era entertainment, your mind might not leap immediately to bells. Church bells, you ask? No, this isn’t about...

May 4th is May Day, the bank holiday and international holiday associated with the struggle for workers’ rights. Most people celebrate...

Recently one of our borrowers came into Todmorden Library with some exercise books he had been given many years ago, wanting to know if...

The 28th of November marks an important 40 year anniversary in the Calder Valley – the anniversary of PC Alan Godfrey’s close encounter...

During lockdown we’re all trying to get out of the house and get some “interesting” exercise in. Walking around on the tops, you can see...

Learn more about the John Fielden letters… Staff and volunteers in Information Services have been working together to transcribe a number...

Learn more about a famous statue… If anyone hasn’t seen the documentary (part of a Derren Brown series) about the story of the lucky dog...