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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.

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