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Research Seminar: Show and Tell with Special Collections: Women in the 1800s

A page from an old book. Aprigs of pink flowers are painted on the page. On top of them, a sepia photograph has been glued on. It shows the interior of a Victorian room.
  • Date: Wednesday 7 May 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
  • Location: Bedford Room, Special Collections Research Centre, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
  • Type: Seminars and lectures, Seminar series
  • Cost: Free
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Come along to this event co-hosted by the School of History's Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Resarch Group and Cultural Collections event to look at some newly catalogued treasures.

This event will showcase the cycling diaries of Sarah and Rachel Knight and 19th century common place books. Beginning with an introduction by archivist Olivia Weekes, participants will have the opportunity to look at these fascinating documents, and share their thoughts on how we can use them for new research projects.

Find out more about the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums research group in the School of History.

How to attend

This event will take place in the Bedford Room, part of the Brotherton Research Centre in Cultural Collections (formerly Special Collections) at the University of Leeds. To access the research centre, go across the round reading room and upstairs to the gallery, along the corridor, and press the bell. External visitors should register at the reception desk in the main entrance.

Image credit

A photo taken by one of the ‘cycling sisters’, MS 1933/5, Special Collections. Used with permission from Leeds University Libraries.