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Our Collections online

WYAS has been involved in a number of projects in increase access to and knowledge of our collections.  A number of these have resulted in content or information being made available online. Some of these are listed below.

From History to Her Story: Yorkshire women's lives online, 1100 to the present.

This ground-breaking project in 2003 provided easy access to a diverse collection of documents on the theme of women's history.  Examples of material included the diaries and correspondence of Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, the Brontes' letters, material relating to early suffragettes, and almost a century of female casebooks from the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield. 

West Yorkshire Archive Service, in partnership with the University of Huddersfield, has received funding from JISC to repair, rehome, repurpose and relaunch the resource from history to herstory – 90,000 images of primary sources for Yorkshire Women’s lives 1100 to the present day. This project will run from May-September 2011.

The existing site is at: http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk

You can follow progress at the project's blog: http://herstoryproject.wordpress.com/

Tracks in time

Tracks in Time is the name of an exciting and important project undertaken by West Yorkshire Archive Service. Supported by Heritage Lottery funding. It saw the conservation and digitisation of the historic tithe maps which together span the modern Leeds Metropolitan District. Fully searchable access to these is possible through the project website:  http://www.tracksintime.wyjs.org.uk

Moving here: 200 years of migration to England

As a partner in the National Archives' award-winning project, WYAS digitised 14,000 images of original archive material relating to migrants to West Yorkshire from the Jewish, South Asian, Irish and Caribbean communities. Individuals tell their stories on the interactive website, which includes photographs, paintings, posters, objects and film. West Yorkshire materials include letters relating to Jewish refugees in the Second World War, photographs of clearance areas in Chapeltown Road and Sheepscar, Leeds in the 1960s, the records of P L Bansal, an immigrant from the Punjab who became a teacher in Huddersfield, and over 7,000 images and film clips from the Leeds West Indian Carnival, 1982 - 2000.  The website is: www.movinghere.org.uk