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

Whilst cataloguing a donation, kept in our Bookplate Pamphlet Box (P097) we came across a lovely bookplate from the personal library of...

Have you ever wondered what the living conditions were like for your Halifax ancestors in the 19th and 20th Centuries? Well, we can...

If you have heard of J R smith it is probably because you have come across some of his illustrations of Old Halifax. They were produced...

Any reader with even the most basic knowledge of the history of asylums and mental institutions – whether from academic reading or from...

A display about Square Chapel The latest display created by Gill, one of the Reference and Local Studies team, is a snapshot of the...