Halifax Courier (15/03/1922) I came across this newspaper headline in the Halifax Courier (15/03/1922) and was intrigued enough to do...

Arsenical beer poisoning was a nationwide scandal in 1900. It was such a scandal that a year later Halifax brewers were proudly...

Known locally as the “Lock-up,” Illingworth Gaol is situated on Wrigley Hill Road, Illingworth.  Built in 1697, it is a grade II* listed...

The gibbet in Halifax continued to survive for centuries after others had disappeared elsewhere Why? The most commonly held theory is that it was a powerful deterrent due to the large amounts of cloth being produced in the area; the textile trade being especially vulnerable to thieves due to it being an easily transportable commodity

One type of thing we have in our special collection – the Horsfall Turner Room – is scrapbooks. People over the years have saved items,...

not for the faint hearted! This pamphlet box blog is about one of the least full, but most interesting (to this author anyway), boxes...

Want to know how many accidents were caused by a horse taking fright? Local Studies doesn’t just have the items you see on display, or...

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