Local historical newspaper index

The Local Newspapers and Events Index (1830s to 1950s)

This is partly an index to articles in local newspapers and partly an index to the dates of certain events.

The index comes from a set of notebooks written by employees of the Halifax Courier. We are grateful to them for their work, quite some years ago. Also, the small team of libraries volunteers who changed the contents of these notebooks to PDFs (2016-17).

The Central Library (Halifax) holds most of the newspapers referred to in the Index on microfilm.

If you find something in the index that interests you and want to chase it up in the newspaper:

• Visit the Central Library and Archives (Halifax).
• For a copy (there is a small charge) or if you have any queries about the Index, please email: reference.library@calderdale.gov.uk.

For more about the content of the index and how to search it, see: 

About the Local Newspapers and Events Index(PDF 150KB)

The Index is below, in six (alphabetical) PDFs:

• Events Index A to C(PDF 364KB)
• Events Index D to G(PDF 290KB)
• Events Index H to L(PDF 243KB)
• Events Index M to P(PDF 408KB)
• Events Index Q to S(PDF 992KB)
• Events Index T to Z(PDF 271KB)