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This archive comprises a fine set of minute books of the governing body and its Committees (1843-1884), records of students and members, financial records, the accounts of the Penny Savings Bank (started in Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution and the forerunner of the Post Office Savings Bank), correspondence, press cuttings, portraits. The archive is an important source of information about Huddersfield and the men who were concerned with the education and the boys who required it. An almost complete archive, it is a vital source of information about the working-class people of Huddersfield
Another archive of tremendous interest to those concerned with women's history and their education. The minutes and annual reports are important sources for the administration of the Institute and the admission records give details of the actual students, their ages, addresses and occupations. Receipted bills give full accounts of the costs of living and the equipment needed for running the Institute and its Library. Huddersfield's Female Educational Institute was one of the first in the country and its archive is an important asset to the history of the town.
Huddersfield Technical School and Mechanics' Institution 1884-1896
Huddersfield Technical College 1896-1958
You can view digitisations of these documents at the History to Her Story web site.
This collection gives details of Huddersfield residents who originated in other European countries. They subscribed to a Library which included works in their own language.
The Society's membership included local worthies. This Archive includes the Society's proceedings and correspondence, which contains much information about Huddersfield culture and also details of the Society's Museum, the forerunner of the Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield's major museum.
This Archive gives detailed information about local industry and art, together with the subscribers and organisers of this important Exhibition.
This unique archive, of the first constituency-based Labour Party in Britain, contains records of every meeting from its formation in 1891. The records include much detail of the election campaigns of Tom Mann, Victor Grayson and Philip Snowden. List available from the archivist.
This Archive comprises the minutes of the Huddersfield Constituency Labour Parties and provides a valuable insight into the development of the Labour Party in this urban area. Some archival material relating to long serving MP JPW Mallalieu has recently been deposited.
The University Archive is working with the Lawrence Batley Theatre on a Heritage Lottery funded to establish an archive of oral reminiscences and other records relating to the history of theatre in Huddersfield and the history of the former Queen Street Chapel. This is an ongoing project and the records acquired will be a rich source of research into local theatre and chapel history. The archives of Huddersfield Amateur Operatic Society have recently been deposited.
There is no place on earth more inextricably associated with Rugby League than Huddersfield, the town which famously gave birth to the sport at a meeting at the George Hotel in 1895
- Yorkshire Evening Post, 2006.
The Archive of the RFL was deposited in the University Archives in 2007. It is a vast collection and will take some time to catalogue fully as it comprises:
Minutes from 1899; Player registration details from 1919; Official Guides from 1901; Tour reports from 1947; Attendance books from 1949; Scrapbooks; Donations from former internationals; Correspondence from 1940; Programmes –mainly from post WW2; Sections on each club; International sections; Photographs (framed and press); RL Parliamentary Group.
The archives of major engineering firms in Huddersfield, associated with the University and its predecessors, have been deposited in the University Archive. These include Holset Engineering Company Ltd and Hopkinsons Ltd, isolation and control valve manufacturer, both major contributors to Huddersfield’s world wide reputation as the home of fine engineering.
There is a burgeoning collection of lecture notes and other material generated by former lecturers and students; these are important evidence of the work of the University and its predecessors.
A substantial quantity of microfilm material is available for reference, comprising indexes and documents held in other repositories, as well as newspapers, journals and theses. There is much research material for the study of Labour history.A list is available for reference from the Archivist. Click here to view the microfilm collection.
The archives of major engineering firms in Huddersfield, associated with the University and its predecessors, have been deposited in the University Archive. These include Holset Engineering Company Ltd and Hopkinsons Ltd, isolation and control valve manufacturer, both major contributors to Huddersfield’s world wide reputation as the home of fine engineering.
