David Thornton will be at Blackwells, Leeds on Friday 20th September from 12 noon onwards signing copies of his new book, The Story of Leeds.
This new history of Leeds covers all the main political, social and economic developments of the city: The Harrying of the North devastated the surrounding area in 1069; the Civil War saw a battle fought in the town itself; cholera and typhus epidemics raged in the nineteenth century; the building of the Middleton Railway in 1758 established the oldest railway in the world; and Richard Oastler, the Factory King, launched the campaign for the Ten Hour Bill in the Leeds Mercury.
An intriguing look at this great city’s remarkable history.