Local studies and family history resources
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 PC's.
Calderdale History
- Bolton Brow Wesleyan Chapel Grave Records
- Calderdale Pre 1841 Censuses
- Goad Plans of Halifax 1894
- Greetland Cricket Club
- Halifax Remembered; Images and reminiscences of the 20th Century
- Halifax St Johns Baptisms A-Z
- Haunted Halifax
- Home Spun Yarns: Crafts in Calderdale 1920 -1970. Age Concern with Pupils from Whitehill School, Illingworth
- Kelly's Directory of Halifax 1867
- Old Photographs of Brighouse
- Printers Ink: Todmorden News & Advertiser in the 1960's
- Providence Chapel, Stainland
- Ripponden Co-operative Society; including Centenary celebrations
- Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister & The real Anne Lister, Sue Perkins (BBC)
- Sowerby Bridge Local History Slides - John Bates Collection
- Town from Hell -Halifax in the 16th & 17th centuries
- Voices from the past -West central Halifax residents with Age Concern
- William Asquith Ltd before 1960 & Halifax Tool Co. Ltd 1964 - 1990.
General History
- 1991 UK Census
- 20th Century day by day: the 60's
- Ancestral Search (IGI)
- Dictionary of Occupational Terms in 19th and 20th Centuries based on Directories: White's 1847 and Slater's 1948
- Hull through the ages
- National Burial Index 2004
- National Maritime Museum Picture Library
- Ordnance Survey Historical Maps of Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire Directories (Whites 1847 and Kelly's 1871/1889)
- Yorkshire Probate.
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.
