| Part 1 1979 |
“Fair befall the Flax Field”: aspects of the history of the Boyle family and their flax business, by M. B. Boyle. | 1 |
| The Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education: 1871-91, by I. Jenkins. | 27 | |
| Obituaries: Charles Athelstane Lupton (1897-1977). | 72 | |
| Kenneth John Bonser (1892-1976). | 72 | |
| Part 2 | The Leeds workhouse under the Old Poor Law: 1726-1834, by P. Anderson. | 75 |
| The origins of gas in Leeds: the Leeds Gas Light Company, 1817-35, by A. Lockwood. | 114 | |
| Part 3 1981 |
The Leeds Rational Recreation Society, 1852-9: ‘Music for the People’ in a mid-Victorian city, by D. Russell. | 137 |
| William Vavasour: the squire of Weston, 1798-1833, by M. Creaser. | 159 | |
| The Dewsbury riots and the Revd Benjamin Ingham, by B. Scott. | 187 | |
| Obituary: Frank Beckwith (1904-1977). | 196 | |
| Annotated list of the writings of Frank Beckwith, compiled by G. Woledge. | 198 | |
| Index. | 205 |
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