Victorian and Edwardian Leeds
Victorian and Edwardian Leeds

Author: Andrew Gill

Publisher:

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781512080629

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Leeds was the industrial capital of Yorkshire and, as such, was an important tourist destination. Detailed guide books, such as Black's Guide to Yorkshire, were available to help visitors make the most of their stay. Black's was updated each year and included historical facts about local towns and villages, where to stay, what to see and excursions to places of interest. This 43 page booklet combines text relating to Leeds from Black's Guide, published in 1888, with photographs taken from postcards and 'magic lantern' projection slides owned by the Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive. It is in three parts. The first is a history and general description of Leeds; the second, thirty photographs probably taken between 1890 and 1920 and the third, a general history and description of Yorkshire. The texts for parts one and three are reproduced from the 1888 guide-book. The Black's Guide text and the photographs complement each other and enable us to travel back in time to visit this important British city at the height of its manufacturing power.

Leeds
Leeds

Author: Susan Wrathmell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780300107364

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Table of contents: Leeds is a city with a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. Its prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the seventeenth-century church of St John, with its magnificent Jacobean woodcarving and furnishings, while the town's eighteenth-century expansion produced elegant Georgian parades and squares with homes for wealthy merchants. They now stand cheek-by-jowl with solid, proud warehouses and offices of the railway age in a wonderful variety of styles ranging from elegant neo-Grecian to Gothic, Moorish and Egyptian.

An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds
An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds

Author: Rebecca Wade

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1837646821

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An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds is a groundbreaking account of the city’s cultural history through its public exhibitions. Offering a vivid analysis of these striking displays in appropriated spaces, it explores Leeds’ relationship with fine and decorative arts, industrial culture and the sciences over the course of the nineteenth century. This significant contribution to urban history establishes Leeds’ importance to the development of British art and design, collecting practices and museum culture, firmly situated in their regional, national and international contexts. From temporary exhibitions in music halls and cloth halls, hospitals and military barracks emerged the networks and structures that informed the development of the city’s permanent cultural institutions. The book closes with the first comprehensive history of the establishment of Leeds Art Gallery, its inaugural exhibitions and founding donations, which would go on to form one of the strongest collections of fine art in the country.

Building a Great Victorian City
Building a Great Victorian City

Author: Christopher Webster

Publisher: Northern Heritage

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 9781906600648

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The story of Leeds and its architecture in the 120 years before the First World War was one of remarkable development: industrial growth on an heroic scale. As an adjunct to commercial, manufacturing and commercial change came a stunning array of new buildings, sufficiently grand to reflect the town's achievements as well as its aspirations. In this book a total of 36 architects who practised in Leeds are chronicled.

A SAGA OF SMITHS: AN EPIC FAMILY HISTORY
A SAGA OF SMITHS: AN EPIC FAMILY HISTORY

Author: Richard Smith

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 1910871060

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A family history, tracing the varied fortunes of the Smiths of West Yorkshire and their relationship to other families, i.e. The Absaloms of Hampshire and London ; The Cardens of Brighton ; The Cloughs of Sutton and Crosshills ; The Fareys of Skipton ; The Fosters of Birmingham and Waterford in Ireland ; The Gillinsons of Leeeds ; The Hastings of Holderness ; The Myersons of London and Europe ; The Stamfords of East Yorkshire and The Wilsons of Colne, Sutton and Crosshills.

Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: Paul Rodmell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1317092473

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In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introduction of music into powerful institutions, both out of belief in music's inherently beneficial properties, and also to promote music occupations and professions in society at large. This book provides a representative and varied sample of the interactions between music and organizations in various locations in the nineteenth-century British Empire, exploring not only how and why music was institutionalized, but also how and why institutions became 'musicalized'. Individual essays explore amateur societies that promoted music-making; institutions that played host to music-making groups, both amateur and professional; music in diverse educational institutions; and the relationships between music and what might be referred to as the 'institutions of state'. Through all of the essays runs the theme of the various ways in which institutions of varying formality and rigidity interacted with music and musicians, and the mutual benefit and exploitation that resulted from that interaction.

The Victorian World
The Victorian World

Author: Martin Hewitt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-25

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 1135694591

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With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the nineteenth century. This volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its global presence in the years from the 1830s to the 1900s. It brings together scholars from history, literary studies, art history, historical geography, historical sociology, criminology, economics and the history of law, to explore more than 40 themes central to an understanding of the nature of Victorian society and culture, both in Britain and in the rest of the world. Organised around six core themes – the world order, economy and society, politics, knowledge and belief, and culture – The Victorian World offers thematic essays that consider the interplay of domestic and global dynamics in the formation of Victorian orthodoxies. A further section on ‘Varieties of Victorianism’ offers considerations of the production and reproduction of external versions of Victorian culture, in India, Africa, the United States, the settler colonies and Latin America. These thematic essays are supplemented by a substantial introductory essay, which offers a challenging alternative to traditional interpretations of the chronology and periodisation of the Victorian years. Lavishly illustrated, vivid and accessible, this volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the nineteenth century.

The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Author: Barry M Doyle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1317319001

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Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of models for future health care which rested on a combination of voluntary and municipal provision.