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The famous statistician G. H. Wood (1874-1945) was the Secretary for Huddersfield and District Woollen Manufacturers and Spinners Association from 1907. He was a free thinker and an associate of A. L. Bowley, who read widely and was active in a variety of local radical movements. He collected wage statistics over a broad field and published much of his collected material. His extensive library, first loaned to Huddersfield Technical College in c.1925, includes manuscript wages material, monographs, pamphlets, government reports and periodicals The subjects covered include economic and social history, education, health, housing and women's history. There is also a valuable collection of pamphlets published by feminist organisations in the early twentieth century as well as a substantial set of Fabian Society material.
This collection of historical books on diet and nutrition was donated to the University Library by Professor John Yudkin, the eminent nutritionalist. It contains many items of interest to social historians, sociologists and all those interested in the history of diet and nutrition. A list is available for reference from the Archivist.
This comprises books about Huddersfield and Yorkshire and includes parish histories, published transcripts of some parish registers, some local maps and theses and the Taylor Dyson Library.
A library comprising 12,000 printed items and some manuscripts accumulated by the WHS has been deposited. This includes histories of many chapels (but no registers), the Methodist Recorder and other journals and much material relating to the Wesley family. It is a nationally important research resource for Methodist history. For access contact the University Archivist.
For biograpical information about Methodism, consult the Dictionary of Methodism http://dmbi.wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk/
A collection of twentieth century newspapers including: Socialist Worker: 1968 – 2006; Tribune: 1947 – 1992; Socialist Review: 1978 – 1997; Socialist Marxism Today: 1957 – 1983;The Democrat: 1997 – 2006; International Socialism: 1969 – 1977; Labour Research: 1937 – 1998; The Leveller: 1976 – 1982; The Economist: 1957 – 1966; New Statesman: 1960 – 1991; New Workers Press: 1969 – 1974; Labour Weekly: 1980 – 1987; Libertarian; CIS Reports; Print: 1968 – 1991; New Dialogue: 1994; New Dialogue News: 1995 – 2004
Other major special collections include the History of Education Collection; the History of Health Collection, the Arthur Gardiner Collection, the Labour History Collection, the Left Book Club, the Wilson Collection of left wing publications; the Geoffrey Rowe Architecture Collection, the Roger Shaw Collection and the Norman Culley Architecture Collection.
Eighteenth Century: an extensive selection of pamphlets and books relating to social and political issues held by the British Library (microfilm)
A full list of historic newspapers and journals is available for reference.
