Publications
Copies of the Society's Second Series publications (from 1991 and after) are available for purchase, together with a few titles from the earlier series. A complete list of the available titles is given below. More detailed descriptions of many of these can be found by clicking on the Synopsis link to the left.
The cost is £5 per copy for all titles except the most recent publications, which are individually priced as shown in the table below. In all cases £4.50 should be added for postage and packing within the UK, and £10.00 for overseas posting.
Please use this Order form, which may be printed and posted to the Society at the address given there. Any queries about purchase can be addressed to thoresby.library@gmail.com.None of the Society's other publications are available for sale but they may be viewed in the Society's library, and borrowed by members. It may also be possible to purchase second hand paper copies from bookshops or internet dealers, or download digitised versions of issues that are out of copy right (generally those published 90 or more years ago).
Publications for Sale
| Year | Volume | Title | Author | Price |
| 1949 | M.I | Monograph: Thomas Taylor: Regency architect, Leeds | F.Beckwith | £5.00 |
| 1954 | M.III | Monograph: Social reform in Victorian Leeds: the work of James Hole. | J.F.C.Harrison | £5.00 |
| 1983 | LVII | The manor and borough of Leeds 1425 – 1662: an edition of documents. | J.W.Kirby | £5.00 |
| 1984 | LVIII | Kirkstall Abbey, 1147 – 1535: an historical study. | G.D.Barnes | £5.00 |
| 1988 | LX & LXI | East End, West End: the Face of Leeds during Urbanisation, 1684 – 1842. | M.Beresford | £5.00 |
| 1991 | 1 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| Joseph Tatham’s School, Leeds. | J.E.Mortimer | |||
| 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. | C.Webster | £5.00 |
| 1993 | 3 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| The Charity School, the Church and the Corporation: aspects of educational provision for the poor in eighteenth-century Leeds. | C.P.Johnston | |||
| 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 | £5.00 | |
| Thorp Arch Hall, 1749 – 1756: ‘dabling a little in mortar’. (illustrated) | B.Harrison | |||
| 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 | £5.00 | |
| Leeds Manor House: the development and changing function of a central site. | 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. | C.Treen | |||
| Leeds cyclists and cycle makers, 1880 – 1901. | E.A.Elton | |||
| 1997 | 6 | The Fawkes Family and their estates in Wharfedale, 1819 – 1936. | M.Sharples | £5.00 |
| 1997 | 7 | Leeds Church architecture, 1700 – 1799. | T.Friedman. | £5.00 |
1998 |
8 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| 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 | |||
| 1999 | 9 | The Moravian Settlement at Fulneck. 1742 – 1790. | G.Stead. | £5.00 |
| 2000 | 10 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| Leeds Jewry, 1930 – 1939: the challenge of anti-semitism. | A.Bergen | |||
| The Great Exodus: the evacuation of Leeds schoolchildren, 1939 – 1945 | R.C.Boud | |||
| 2001 | 11 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| 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 | £5.00 |
| 2003 | 13 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| 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 | £5.00 | |
| 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 | £5.00 |
| 2006 | 16 | The Memoranda Book of John Lucas, 1712 – 1750 | J.Oates | £5.00 |
| 2007 | 17 | The Monuments of the Parish Church of St Peter-at-Leeds | M.Pullan | £5.00 |
| 2008 (for 1989) | LXIV | Leeds in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries | M.W.Beresford; G.C.F.Forster; J.W.Kirby | £5.00 |
| 2008 | 18 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| Whose Time and Whose Place: Searching for the History of 20th Century Leeds | R.J.Morris | |||
| Headingley Hall: Lords and Tenants through Seven Centuries | J.M.Collinson | |||
| Papers Written for his Children by Albert Henry Pawson 1850-1935 | D.Thornton (ed.) | |||
| The Enclosure of Common Land in Headingley-cum-Burley 1828-34: Conflicts of Interest | E.J.Bradford | |||
| Robert the Dyer – the First Leeds Businessman? | J.M.Collinson | |||
| The Thoresby Collection | P.Meredith | |||
| 2009 | 19 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| St Saviour's Church, Leeds, and the Oxford Movement | R.Yates | |||
| The Italian Immigrants in Leeds, 1881-1901 | C.Nichol | |||
| The Leeds Waits: official town musicians and peripatetic entertainers for over three centuries | A.Radford | |||
| The Leather Industries and the Growth of Bramley | A.Silson | |||
| 2010 | 20 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| William de Calverley (c1275-1319): a notable Franciscan Friar | M.Robson | |||
| Surprising Survivors of the Black Death in Leeds | J.Dixon | |||
| York Dean & Chapter Library, Ms.Add. 770, a Franciscan Volume once owned by Ralph Thoresby | M.Robson | |||
| Love and Marriage in Elizabethan Headingley | J.M.Collinson | |||
| Famine, Typhus and Poor Law: Irish Families in Leeds | H.Kennally | |||
| Typhus,Two Windows and a Gold Chain | G.Figures | |||
| Revd Robert Aitken (180-1873): Catholic Evangelical | R.Yates | |||
| 2011 | 21 | The Thursby Manuscripts | P.Meredith (ed) | £5.00 |
| 2012 | 22 | Headingley-cum-Burley c1540-c1784 | J.L.Cruikshank | £5.00 |
| 2013 | 23 | The Burial Ground Problem in Leeds c1700-1914 | J.Morgan | £5.00 |
| 2014 | 24 | Miscellany | £5.00 | |
| Early Coal Mining in Leeds 1500-1700 | G.D.Newton | |||
| The Clothier Families of Horsforth … 1841-1881 | S.M.Chell | |||
| Joseph Fearn: a Villainous Lord of the Manor of Leeds | M.Pullan | |||
| 150 Years of the Leeds Church Extension Society | R.Yates | |||
| “Hours of Distraction and Cheerful Companionship”: Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs and the Girls' Clubs Era (1904-1944) | H.M.F.Jones | |||
| Leeds and the First World War | D.Thornton | |||
| 2015 | 25 | The Notebooks of Robert Pounder | A.Alexander (ed) | £5.00 |
| 2015 | T Vol 1 | A Celebration of Ralph Thoresby | £5.00 | |
| Ralph Thoresby and the Compilation of the Ducatus Leodiensis | S.Burt | |||
| The First Medievalist in Leeds: Ralph Thoresby FRS, 1658-1725 | G.C.F.Forster | |||
| Ralph Thoresby the Diarist: The late 17th Century Pious Diary and its Demise | E.Jajdelska | |||
| An Historical Reconstruction of Ralph Thoresby's Home | P.Brears | |||
| Ralph Thoresby: a Museum Visitor in Stuart England | P.Brears | |||
| Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) of Leeds, Books and Libraries | P.Morrish | |||
| Important Pieces from Ralph Thoresby's Collection discovered at Burton Constable in East Yorkshire | D.Connell | |||
| From Grand Design to Scribbled Note: Ralph Thoresby's presence in the Society's library | P.Meredith | |||
| 2015 | T Vol 2 | Ralph Thoresby's Review of His Life 1658-1714 | P.Meredith (ed) | £5.00 |
| 2016 | 26 | Voices from Wartime Leeds : Three Mass Observation Diaries | P.&R.Malcomson (ed) | £5.00 |
| 2017/18 | 27&28 | 'Libraries in Leeds: a Historical Survey 1152 - c.1939' | Peter Morrish | £5.00 |
| 2019 | 29 | Miscellany | £15.00 | |
| Wills and Inventories: Leeds Kirkgate-cum-Holbeck, 1644-1669 | C.Collinson J.M.Collinson |
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| On the Origins of the Rhubarb Growing and Forcing industry of Leeds and Surrounding Areas. | R.T.Jackson | |||
| Forced Rhubarb in West Yorkshire. c.1852-2017 | A.Silson | |||
| 2020 | 30 | Miscellany | £15.00 | |
| Louis Le Prince and Leeds | Irfan Shah | |||
| Entente Musicale: Charles Villiers Stanford and the Leeds Choir in Paris 1906 | Robert Demaine | |||
| Hudson, Sykes and Bousefield: the rise and fall of a Leeds merchant and manufacturing House | Chris Hindle | |||
| Brewing at Kirkstall Abbey and Brewery 1152-1983 | Peter Brears | |||
| The Tudor Reformation in Leeds | Roy Yates | |||
| Elizabethan Potternewton and the Hardwick family | Michael Collinson | |||
| 2021 | 31 | Knowing One's Place | Robin Pearson | £20.00 |
| 2022 | 32 | Temple Newsam & Temple Hirst: Tudor Palaces of Lord Darcy of the North | Peter Brears | £15.00 |
| 2019 | 29 | Miscellany | £15.00 | |
| Wills and Inventories: Leeds Kirkgate-cum-Holbeck, 1644-1669 | C.Collinson J.M.Collinson |
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| On the Origins of the Rhubarb Growing and Forcing industry of Leeds and Surrounding Areas. | R.T.Jackson | |||
| Forced Rhubarb in West Yorkshire. c.1852-2017 | A.Silson | |||
| 2023 | 33 | Miscellany | £15.00 | |
| The Leeds Industrial Dwellings Company, 1866-1937 | John Townsend | 01 | ||
| Remembering the battle of Holbeck Moor, 1936 | Janet Douglas | 109 | ||
| Private venture schools in Leeds, 1750-1800 | D. J. Bryden | 127 | ||
| Kirkstall Inventories: the Hinchcliffe family and estate | Michael Collinson | 166 | ||
| The Early Architectural Development of Kirkstall Abbey’s Inner Gatehouse | Peter Brears | 195 | ||
| Bar Grange, Kirkstall, a Minor Gentry House in 1610 | Peter Brears | 202 | ||
| A Late Fifteenth Century Processional Cross from Gisborough Priory and its subsequent history | Christine Clarke and Bruce Watson | 208 |