📽️ Learning, Health & Wellbeing and Heritage - three powerful themes woven through 'Stories In Motion' at our on-campus gallery in The Bath House. This collaborative project showcases the heart of Kirklees culture. Drop by and take in the creativity on your doorstep: https://hud.ac/vz5

Lancelot “Capability” Brown, who died on this day in 1783, was remarkably prolific in Yorkshire, with around 20 sites linked to his work. He transformed rigid, formal gardens into naturalistic parkland, defined by sweeping lawns, serpentine lakes and carefully placed clumps of trees. His 1/3

OUR NEXT TALK - in person. Monday 23 Feb at the University of Huddersfield, Oastler building. All welcome Full details Here: tinyurl.com/4a2khbtz

OUR NEXT TALK - in person. Monday 23 Feb at the University of Huddersfield, Oastler building. All welcome Full details Here: tinyurl.com/4a2khbtz

As the General Strike centenary gets closer, we've been boosting our digitised content! 560 original documents have now been digitised & are free to access, including strike bulletins, radio transcripts, union communications & more... #GeneralStrike100 cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

An interesting piece in this month's Wakefield District Heritage Newsletter. The government launched a major new initiative to record and protect the nation’s intangible cultural heritage, from traditional crafts and music to long-standing community customs. Led by Historic

It's our big booklet giveaway on Saturday at our research room from 11.00 - 4.00. This is a one-off event as we move towards digital downloads. We have hundreds of booklets to give away, a simple way to see family baptisms, marriages and burials grouped in alpha order. #familyhistory #localhistory

An excellent new resource from @uoscollections.bsky.social! We're looking forward to exploring the catalogue and developing links between the Arthur Scargill Archive and the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers archives (full NUM catalogue available in the next couple of months!)

Today marks Holocaust Memorial Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. To commemorate, we’re sharing a small selection of survivors’ stories from our collection – voices preserved in memory and testimony. Read here: link.bl.uk/hij

Tindall's 1866 Huddersfield Directory is now available to read online! Worth browsing if only for the adverts 😀 huddersfield.exposed/s/17900 A huge "thank you" to @huddsfhs.bsky.social and Ian Stevenson in particular (who allowed his copy of this rare book to be scanned).

The 1832 Reform Act marked a pivotal moment in the extension of the franchise, but who was able to vote? @martinspychal.bsky.social explores topic, which may not be as straightforward as you think.

Our first talk of the season, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN'S THRICE CHAMPIONS: 100 YEARS ON revisits the glory years of Huddersfield Town FC in the 1920s. Monday 26 January, Oastler building, Huddersfield University, 7.30pm. All welcome - more details here: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/event/hudder...

Pen & Sword have a 50% off sale on *all* titles Buying direct really helps authors and indy publishers! Going to link my titles in the thread below - first up: Britain's Iron Chancellor, the autobiog of Philip Snowden, the most *Yorkshire* man in UK politics, 1st & most controversial Labour CofE

Wonderful project and memorial to much missed George Redmonds and David Hey. Many entries help clarify words in Wills, not just in #Yorkshire! @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

Always great to see digitisations made freely available online! I scanned the HLHS back run of newsletters and journals a few years ago: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications...