laplata.co.uk
Family History - SueA
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Medieval Section of YAS. FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service. Search the IGI for your family. The Public Record Office. Yorkshire Archaeological Society - Family History Section. Your Irish Roots: Irish Genealogy, Irish Surname and Irish Coat of Arms. This could be the only link you need. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Software and some good links. Look up News Groups on dejanews. Do you want to look for a second hand book? Passenger Lists to USA. 1998 Elaine M. Williams.
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laplata.co.uk
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Medieval Section of YAS. This is now just a holding page for the site. It would be impossible to even think of my personal web pages without the wonderful illustrations that Elaine Williams created for me back in 1998 so they are all still here. The new additions are on the top navigation bar where you will find links to sites that I maintain for societies that I belong to. If you are interested in history or archaeology then I can strongly recommend these societies.
leedsphilandlit.org.uk
The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society -- Main Page
http://leedsphilandlit.org.uk/links.html
Registered Office: c/o Leeds City Museum, Cookridge. Street, Leeds LS2 8BH. Useful links to societies and organisations with related interests. The University of Leeds. Leeds Museums and Galleries.
leodis.net
Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Article
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Facilities on the site. Leodis is an online photographic archive containing over 59,000 images of Leeds, old and new and is managed by Leeds Library and Information Service. The Local and Family History Library. Site to gauge demand. The high level of interest led to the creation of the Leodis site. A grant was obtained from the New Opportunities Fund. Now the Big Lottery. Leeds Museums and Galleries. And West Yorkshire Archive Service. Have also provided material from their photographic collections to b...
hydeparkhistory.blogspot.com
Hyde Park History: October 2009
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Poking around in the under-appreciated history of Leeds 6, with a bit of a radical slant. 52 Harold Mount photos. The house Henry Rollins lived and worked in. Is a back-to-back terrace of the sort that was very common in Leeds but largely demolished in the 1960s and 70s. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What is this blog? 52 Harold Mount photos. Leodis - Leeds photo archive.
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Hyde Park History: John Freeborn, 27 Broomfield Crescent
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Poking around in the under-appreciated history of Leeds 6, with a bit of a radical slant. John Freeborn, 27 Broomfield Crescent. WW1 and WW2 hold particular attention historically. Not only were ordinary people conscripted en masse but literacy was newly widespread, so they could communicate what they experienced. For the first time it wasn’t just the preserve of the upper classes and official historians. Were readied. The coin was flipped and it came down in its edge, teetering. But at that point in mid...
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Hyde Park History: Suffragette rally news report
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Poking around in the under-appreciated history of Leeds 6, with a bit of a radical slant. Suffragette rally news report. Here's the report that went with the previously posted pictures. Leeds Mercury, Monday July 27, 1908. Great Crowd on Woodhouse Moor. SPEECHES FROM TEN PLATFORMS. SODS SETTLE AN ARGUMENT. There was no serious disturbance. Here and there one or two noisy spirits elbowed their way into the crowd and ventured upon an occasional interruption. In one instance, too, a man proceeded fr...Why,"...
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Hyde Park History: July 2009
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Poking around in the under-appreciated history of Leeds 6, with a bit of a radical slant. Arthur Ransome, 6 Ash Grove. He's certainly not under-appreciated, with extensive sites such as All Things Ransome. And the Arthur Ransome Society. There's a blue plaque on the house he was born in at 6 Ash Grove ( Google map. But it is rubbish. 'Arthur Ransome author of Swallows and Amazons was born here'. When the October revolution came he approved of that too. Within a few months he'd interviewed all the sen...
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Hyde Park History: Mary Gawthorpe, 5 Melville Street
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Poking around in the under-appreciated history of Leeds 6, with a bit of a radical slant. Mary Gawthorpe, 5 Melville Street. A Leeds 6 double-whammy here - not only a local hero but a major local event. Mary Gawthorpe (January 12 1881-March 12 1973) was a militant suffragette born and brought up at 5 Melville Street, Woodhouse. She organised and addressed perhaps the largest rally Woodhouse Moor has ever seen, a suffragette demonstration over 100,000 strong on 26 July 1908. There was a mass demonstration...
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Hyde Park History: September 2010
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Poking around in the under-appreciated history of Leeds 6, with a bit of a radical slant. John Freeborn, the distinguished Battle of Britain ace Spitfire pilot from Headingley, died on August 28th. He was a friend of my family's, and the first Yorkshireman I ever knew. Only years later after moving to Leeds did I come to realise that his blunt upfront approach, his relentless pisstaking, his outspokenness and generosity of spirit were in large part cultural. The same in the Telegraph. A quintessential Yo...