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CD-ROMs and DVDs

The Reference Library holds a range of CDs and DVDs of interest to local and family historians.

These can be used on Reference Library PCs.

Calderdale history

  • Black Dyke – An inside story (from book: 785.0671 HT).
  • Bolton Brow Wesleyan Chapel Grave Records.
  • Brighouse and Elland Almanac 1920.
  • Calderdale pre-1841 Censuses.
  • Calderdale Public Houses: photos from the 1990s.
  • Civic and Municipal Leadership: a study of 3 Northern Town (includes Halifax records).
  • Coley St John Parish Registers: 1734 - 1902.
  • Discovering Calderdale Parts 1 and 2.
  • East Calderdale Parish Registers 1843 - 1869.
  • Elland.
  • Elland St Mary's Parish Registers 1558 - 1850.
  • Goad Plans of Halifax 1894.
  • Greetland Cricket Club.
  • Halifax 1851 Census.
  • Halifax Jack: John Edmund Ackroyd and his many descendants.
  • Halifax Remembered: Images and reminiscences of the 20th Century.
  • Halifax St Johns Baptisms A-Z.
  • Halifax: A journey through time 1900 - 1999.
  • Haunted Halifax (from book 942.746 FRA).
  • Home Spun Yarns: Crafts in Calderdale 1920 -1970. (Age Concern with Pupils from Whitehill School, Illingworth).
  • Illingworth Gaol Conservation Management; Sue Oakley 2010.
  • Images of the site of New Central Library (about 2016).
  • Kelly's Directory of Halifax 1867.
  • King Cross - Stephen Gee collection.
  • Lightcliffe St Matthews Parish Registers 1704 - 1900/1976.
  • Memories of Warley Town.
  • Midgley Reminiscences.
  • Midgley - Researching Midgley' past.
  • Midgley Sources 2.
  • Old Photographs of Brighouse.
  • Pennine Magpie: featuring the work of people with disabilities in association with 'ArtReach' at Square Chapel.
  • Printers Ink: Todmorden News and Advertiser in the 1960s.
  • Providence Chapel, Stainland.
  • Rastrick Big Vocal V1.
  • Rastrick St Matthew's Pageant 2009.
  • Rawson Family Portraits.
  • Remembering Cragg Hall.
  • Ripponden Co-operative Society; including Centenary celebrations.
  • Ripponden and the Ryburn Valley.
  • Royal Visit to Halifax 20th October 1937.
  • School Log Books 1862 - 1918, Central and North Calderdale (CFHS).
  • School Log Books 1872 - 1917, East and South Calderdale (CFHS).
  • School Log Books 1862 - 1918, West Calderdale (CFHS).
  • Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister and The Real Anne Lister. (BBC).
  • Sowerby Bridge Local History Slides - John Bates Collection.
  • Sowerby Bridge/Copley Valley Transformational Project.
  • The All or Nothing Man William Holt 1897 - 1977.
  • To Walk Invisible: the lives of the Bronte sisters.
  • Todmorden Festival of Britain 1951.
  • Town from Hell - Halifax in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • Voices from the Past - West Central Halifax residents with Age Concern.
  • William Asquith Ltd before 1960 and Halifax Tool Co. Ltd 1964 - 1990.

General history

  • 1991 UK Census.
  • Dictionary of Occupational Terms in 19th and 20th Centuries.
  • Directories: White's 1847 and Slater's 1948.
  • Directories: Whites Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford 1837.
  • Hull through the ages.
  • National Burial Index 2004.
  • National Maritime Museum Picture Library.
  • Opening the door to family history.
  • Ordnance Survey Historical Maps of Yorkshire.
  • West Yorkshire Directories (White's 1847 and Kelly's 1871/1889).
  • William White Directory and Topography of the Leeds & Clothing Districts 1847.
  • Yorkshire Probate.
  • Yorkshire Remembered - A series of DVD's presented by Richard Whiteley on various topics.

Military information

  • Album of WW1 Soldiers' Drawings: St Luke's Hospital Halifax.
  • Army Roll of Honour, 1939 -1945.
  • Battlefields of the First World War.
  • British Trench Map Atlas.
  • Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914 -1919.

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