Entries for the tag ‘Leeds Library (1768-)’
Oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK, founded in 1768 following an advertisement placed in the Leeds Intelligencer, first secretary was Joseph Priestley. 
- 27 August 1801: The London painter Joseph Farington reconnoitres Leeds’s public cultural facilities
- 4 June 1838: The low-church Leeds Library censors a high-church novel in which a shady young evangelical clergyman wins the affections of a wealthy young widow
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Place-People-Play: Childcare (and the Kazookestra) on the Headingley/Weetwood borders next to Meanwood Park.
Music from and about Yorkshire by Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder.
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