The Historical Society for Leeds and District
Founded 1889

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Date of Publication	Volume no.	Title	Author/Editor	Price
1899	X	Leeds Parish Church Registers, 1684 – 1695 Part 3 Burials Index (reprint)		£4.50

1930	XXVII	Wills of Leeds and District, 1553 – 1561 (Part 2 only)		£4.50

1945	XXXVII	Miscellany 11 (parts 1 and 2 only)		£4.50
	Part 1	Christopher Danby of Masham and Farnley [1582-1624]	C. Whone
		Letters of the Rev. George Plaxton, M.A., rector of Barwick-in-Elmet [ob. 1720].	E. M. Walker
		Allotments and awards under the Garforth Enclosure Act [1810].
		The Leeds Steam Carriage Company. [Resolutions, letters, etc., 1830].
	Part 2	The beginnings of the Leeds Library.	F. Beckwith	£4.50
		Sorocold’s waterworks at Leeds, 1694.	F. Williamson & W. B. Crump
		The founders of the Thoresby Society.	E Kitson Clark
		George Denison Lumb, F.S.A. [ob. 1939] Obituary
		The rentals of the manor of Otley.	G.E. Kirk

1955	XL	Introductory Account and Index (Part 3) to Volume of Extracts from the Leeds Intelligencer and Leeds Mercury 1777-82 ( Volume of Extracts out of print)	F. Beckwith	£4.50

1949	M.I	Monograph: Thomas Taylor: Regency architect, Leeds	F. Beckwith	£4.50

1951	M.II	Monograph: A survey of the plate in Leeds Parish Church and its ancient chapelries.	J. Sprittles	£4.50

1954	XLI	Miscellany 12 (part 4 only)		£4.50
	Part 4	Some notes on the Hall family of Stumperlow and Leeds.	S. Brooke
		The Rockinghams and Yorkshire politics, 1742-1761.	C. Collyer
		Two notes on the history of the Aire and Calder Navigation.	G Ramsden
		William Wilson, Mayor of Leeds, 1762-3

1954	M.III	Monograph: Social reform in Victorian Leeds: the work of James Hole.	J. F. C. Harrison	£4.50

1952	XLII	The Kirkstall Abbey Chronicles.	J. Taylor	£4.50

1955	XLIII	Kirkstall Abbey Excavations, 1950 – 1954.		£4.50

1957	XLV	Documents relating to the Manor and Borough of Leeds, 1066 – 1400.	J. Le Patourel	£4.50
	XLVI	Miscellany 13

1960	Part 1	Medieval Leeds: Kirkstall Abbey – The Parish Church – The Medieval Borough.	J. Le Patourel	£4.50
		New Grange, Kirkstall.	J. Sprittles
		Checklist of the correspondence of Ralph Thoresby	H. W. Jones
		Two hundred years of Leeds banking.	H Pemberton

1961	Part 2	Leeds and the factory reform movement.	J. T. Ward	£4.50
		Leeds leather industry in the nineteenth century.	W. G. Rimmer
		Leeds musical festivals.	J. Sprittles

1963	Part 3	The building of Leeds Town Hall.	Asa Briggs	£4.50
		Alfred Place Terminating Building Society.	W. G. Rimmer
		Joseph Barker and The People.	M. Brook
		Note on ‘William Hodgson’s Book’ – a manuscript in the Society’s library.

1961	XLVIII	Kirkstall Abbey excavations, 1955 – 1961.		£4.50

1965	XLIX	Pontefract Priority excavations, 1957 – 1961.	C. V. Bellamy	£4.50

1968	L	Miscellany 14 (Parts 1 and 3 only)
	Part 1	Leeds Quaker Meeting.	W. Allott	£4.50
	(Part 1)	A note on Leeds wills, 1539 – 1561.	A Lonsdale
		Stourton Lodge: 1776 to April 1965.	A Lonsdale

	Part 3	The postal history of Leeds.	H. C. Versey	£4.50
		Further notes upon Leeds church patronage in the eighteenth century.	R. J. Wood
		Index to The Publications of the Thoresby Society. Vols XXXVII - LI	J. M. D. Forster

1967	LI	Kirkstall Abbey excavations, 1960 – 1964, with appraisal of results since 1950.		£4.50

1973	LIII	Miscellany 15
	Part 1	The Leeds Churchwardens, 1828 – 1850.	D. Fraser	£4.50
		Poor law politics in Leeds, 1833 – 1855.	D. Fraser
		The politics of Leeds water.	D. Fraser
		Improvement in early Victorian Leeds.	D. Fraser
		Thwaite Mill, Hunslet, and Thomas Cheek Hewes.	S. B. Smith
		Ebor House: a note.	A Lonsdale

	Part 2	Extracts from the journals of John Deakin Heaton	B. and D. Payne.	£4.50
		Kirkstall Forge and monkish iron-making.	R. A. Mott
		The Venerable Edmund Sykes of Leeds.	Revd G. Bradley & A. Lonsdale
		Wintoun Street Baptist Church, 1870 – 1895.	R. J. Owen

	Part 3	The rise of James Kitson: Trades Union and Mechanics Institution, Leeds, 1826 – 1851.	R. J. Morris	£4.50
		The last monks of Kirkstall Abbey.	A. Lonsdale
		John Smeaton.	C. A. Lupton
		Arthington Nunnery.	C. A. Lupton

1974	LIV	Miscellany 16
	Part 1	The Irish in Leeds, 1851 – 1861.	T. Dillon	£4.50
		Spas, wells and springs of Leeds.	K. J. Bonser
		Christopher Wilkinson of Leeds and Maryland.	R. J. Wood
		The autobiography of Robert Spurr.	R. J. Owen

1975	Part 2	The theatre in Hunslet Lane, Part I.	J. Copley	£4.50
		The Leeds gas strike, 1890.	H. Hendrick
		The Leeds Eye Dispensary.	G. Black
		City Square and Colonel Harding.	G. Black

1976	Part 3	Profit, property interests, and public spirit: the provision of markets in Leeds, 1822 – 29.	K Grady	£4.50
		The theatre in Hunslet Lane, Part II	J. Copley
	(Part 3)	The early years of the Yorkshire College.	P. H. J. H. Gosden
		The Baptist breach at Bramley.	R. J. Owen
		Stank Hall barn, Leeds.	H. E. J. Le Patourel
		Bibliography: Canon R. J. Wood.	J. Wood

1979	Part 4	The early years of Leeds Corporation.	G. C. F. Forster	£4.50
		The Corporation of Leeds in the eighteenth century.	R. G. Wilson
		The Leeds Corporation, c. 1820 – c. 1850.	D. Fraser
		Holy Trinity Church in the history of Leeds 1727 – 1977.	G. C. F. Forster
		The architect of Holy Trinity church, Leeds.	W. J. Connor
		The Leeds Savage Club and its origins.	G. Black
		The ‘Wild Indian Savages’ in Leeds.	C. G. Galloway
		A Victorian city mission: the Unitarian contribution to social progress in Holbeck and New Wortley, 1844 – 78.	E. A. Elton
		A Yorkshire music critic (Herbert Thompson) in Germany and Austria in 1889.	P. S. Morrish

1979	LVI	Miscellany 17
	Part 1	‘Fair befall the Flax Field’: aspects of the history of the Boyle family and their flax business.	M. B. Boyle	£4.50
		The Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education: 1871 – 91.	I. Jenkins
		Obituaries: Charles Athelstane Lupton (1897-1977) Kenneth John Bonser (1892-1976)

	Part 2	The Leeds Workhouse under the old Poor Law.	P. Anderson	£4.50
		The origins of gas in Leeds: the Leeds Gas Light Company, 1817 – 35.	A. Lockwood

1981	Part 3	The Leeds Rational Recreation Society, 1852 – 9: ‘Music for the People’ in a mid-Victorian city.	D. Russell	£4.50
		William Vavasour: the Squire of Weston, 1798 – 1833.	M. Creaser
		The Dewsbury riots and the Revd Benjamin Ingham.	B. Scott
		Annotated list of the writings of Frank Beckwith	G. Woledge

1983	LVII	The manor and borough of Leeds 1425 – 1662: an edition of documents. (special price)	J. W. Kirby	£2.50

1984	LVIII	Kirkstall Abbey, 1147 – 1535: an historical study.	G. D. Barnes	£4.50

1985-86	LIX	Miscellany 18 (Part 1)
	Part 1	Yorkshire Towns in the late fourteenth century	R. B. Hobson
		The Rulers of Leeds: gentry, clothiers and merchants, c. 1425-1626.	J. W. Kirby
		Speculative housing development in the suburb of Headingley, Leeds, 1838-1914.	F. Trowell
	(Part 1)	The ‘1523’ Whitkirk Rental: a note.	G. Woledge
		Obituaries: Jantje Elisabeth Uytenhoudt Exwood (1936-1983).
		Douglas Keighley (1928-1981).
		Frank Lucas Warburton (1907-1980).

1986	LIX	Miscellany 18 (part 2)		£4.50
	Part 2	The evolution of St James’, 1846 – 94: Leeds Moral and Industrial Training School, Leeds Union Workhouse and Leeds Union Infirmary. (illustrated: available also in booklet form, with laminated cover (reprint). £4.50)	P. M. Pennock
		Benjamin Gott of Armley House, Leeds, 1762 – 1840: patron of the arts. (illustrated; available also in booklet form, with laminated cover. £4.50)	V. M. E. Lovell

1988	LX & LXI	East End, West End: the Face of Leeds during Urbanisation, 1684 – 1842. (illus.)	M. Beresford	£17.95

1989	LXII	The Georgian Public Buildings of Leeds and the West Riding. (illustrated)	K. Grady	£9.50

1990	LXIII	Miscellany 19		£4.50
		Tithes and tithe-holders in the parish of Leeds from the Dissolution to the Restoration.	R. T. Spence
		Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds: his work for the Church and the Town, 1837 -1848. (illustrated; available also in booklet form, with laminated cover £4.50).	H. W. Dalton
		‘Shall it be Bradford or Leeds?’: the origins of professional football in the West Riding textile district.	A. J. Arnold

		SECOND SERIES

1991	1	Miscellany
		Joseph Tatham’s School, Leeds. (illustrated)	J. E. Mortimer	£5.00
		Thoresby’s ‘poor deluded Quakers’: the sufferings of Leeds Friends in the seventeenth century.	J. E. Mortimer
		Joseph Barker and the Radical cause, 1848 – 1851.	S. Roberts
		David Forsyth and the City of Leeds School.	E. W. Jenkins

1992	2	R. D. Chantrell, Architect: his life and work in Leeds, 1818 – 1847. (illustrated)	C. Webster	£10.00

1993	3	Miscellany
		The Charity School, the Church and the Corporation: aspects of educational provision for the poor in eighteenth-century Leeds.	C. P. Johnston	£6.50
		Waggonways and staiths: the impact of the Middleton Colliery on the township of Hunslet, c. 1750 – 1850.	B. C. May
		Becoming a city: Leeds, 1893.	A. Elton
		Sir George Cockburn, 1848 – 1927.	A. Elton

1994	4	Miscellany
		Thorp Arch Hall, 1749 – 1756: ‘dabling a little in mortar’. (illustrated)	B. Harrison	£7.00
		Early textile engineers in Leeds, 1780 – 1850.	G. Cookson
		Leeds and dismemberment of the diocese of Ripon.	P. S. Morrish
		Leeds Grammer School, the charity commissioners and the education of girls 1870 – 1901.	E. W. Jenkins

1995	5	Miscellany		£8.00
		Leeds Manor House: the development and changing function of a central site. (illustrated)	S. Burt
		Textile communities in the making: Pudsey and its neighbourhood.	R. Strong
		Edward Oates and the making of the lost American Garden at Meanwoodside, 1834 – 1864. (illustrated)	C. Treen
		Leeds cyclists and cycle makers, 1880 – 1901. (illustrated)	E.A.Elton

1997	6	The Fawkes Family and their estates in Wharfedale, 1819 – 1936.	M. Sharples	£15.00

1997	7	Leeds Church architecture, 1700 – 1799.	T. Friedman.	£15.00

1997	8	Miscellany		£6.75
		Domestic servants in Leeds and its neighbourhood in the eighteenth century	K. R. Wark
		William Aldam, Backbench MP for Leeds, 1841 – 1847: national issues verses local interests.	D. G. Paz
		The Adoption of the Public Libraries Act in Leeds, 1861 – 1866.	M. Shipway
		Charles Henry Wilson: the man who was Leeds.	W. R. Meyer
		Obituary: Michael Sykes, ARIBA

1999	9	The Moravian Settlement at Fulneck. 1742 – 1790.	G. Stead.	£9.50

2000	10	Miscellany		£8.00
		Leeds Jewry, 1930 – 1939: the challenge of anti-semitism.	A. Bergen
		The Great Exodus: the evacuation of Leeds schoolchildren, 1939 – 1945	R. C. Boud
		(Each of these articles is also available in booklet form, with laminated cover, price £2.50 and £6.00 respectively).
		Obituary: Joyce North Pogson (1915-1999)

2001	11	Miscellany		£8.00
		The Leeds North Eastern Railway Extension, 1863 – 1869.	K. R. Wark
	(11)	Episodes in the History of Golden Acre.	A. Shelton
		‘An Institution of Great Utility’: Leeds Public Dispensary, the early years, 1824 – 1867.	A. L. Kent
		Leeds and Public Patronage of Fine Art, 1809 – 1888.	J. Douglas

2002	12	Anglican Resurgence under W. F. Hook in Early Victorian Leeds. Church Life in a Nonconformist Town, 1836 – 1851.	H. W. Dalton	£15.00

2003	13	Miscellany		£12.00
		The Journals of Sarah Mayo Parkes, 1815 and 1818.	P. Litton
		William Potts of Leeds, Clockmaker.	M. S. Potts
		Percy Alfred Scholes (1877 – 1958): music critic, educator and encyclopaedist.	P. S. Morrish
		The Leeds Elections of 1834 and 1835: a psephological analysis.	J. Morgan

2004	14	Miscellany		£15.00
		Leeds and the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745.	J. Oates
		What was the Relationship between Elite Culture and Power in the Town of Leeds from 1760 to 1820?	S. Cottam
		Edward Baines, Editor: Great Man, Great Liar? The Press Assessment.	D. Thornton
		Sunday Schools in Leeds: Church Associations for Children and Young People, Leeds 1836 – 1851.	H. W. Dalton
		The Thoresby Society Library and Archives.	J. Newiss

2005	15	More Annals of Leeds 1880 – 1920	W. Benn	£22.50

2006	16	The Memoranda Book of John Lucas, 1712 – 1750	J. Oates	£22.50

		Index to the publications of the Thoresby Society 1969-2004	J. M. D Forster	£2.50

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