Thoresby Society

The Thoresby Society is the historical society for the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding district. It was founded in 1889 and named after the historian of Leeds, Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725).[1]

History and name

The Society takes its name from Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), the first historian of Leeds and a pioneer in the field of local history. It was founded in 1889 and by the end of that year had 172 subscribers. By 1912 this had grown to 397, and by 1986 reached 528. The society's activities have included publication of transcriptions of local records and of original research, lectures, and "the educational and social pleasures of imaginatively organised excursions" (423 of which took place in its first 100 years).[2]

Aims

The objects of the Society, as set out in the Memorandum of Association, are:

To be the premier history society of Leeds and its neighbourhood and accordingly to cultivate an interest in the history of Leeds and its neighbourhood through the collection and preservation of books, documents and other matter that may assist this purpose;

To promote the dissemination of knowledge by all appropriate means of the history of Leeds and its neighbourhood and to promote a wide public interest therein;

To oversee the publication of documents, monographs and papers relating to the history of Leeds and its neighbourhood.

Library and archives

The Society maintains a large library of books relating to the history of Leeds and District, and conserves an archive of papers and images relating to Leeds.[3]

The Society's Library was moved in 2015 into the Leeds Library, where it is available for public access.[4]

List of publications

First series
  • I Leeds Parish Church Registers, First and Second Books, 1572-1612; ed. by Samuel Margerison; 1891
  • II Miscellanea I; 1891
  • III Leeds Parish Church Registers, Third and Fourth Books, 1612-1639; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1895
  • IV Miscellanea II; ed. by E. Kitson Clark; 1895
  • V Adel Parish Church Registers, 1606-1812, and Monumental Inscriptions; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1895
  • VI Calverley Charters presented to the British Museum by Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Baronet, Volume I. Transcribed by S. Margerison and ed. by W. Paley Baildon and S. Margerison; 1904
  • VII Leeds Parish Church Registers, 1639-1667, Fifth and Sixth Books; ed. by, G. D. Lumb; 1897
  • VIII Coucher Book of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstall, in W.R.Yorks, Printed from the Original Preserved in the Public Record Office; ed. by W. T. Lancaster and W. Paley Baildon; 1904
  • IX Miscellanea III; ed. by E. Kitson Clark; 1899
  • X Leeds Parish Church Registers, 1667-1695, Seventh and Eighth Books; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1901
  • XI Miscellanea IV; ed. by E. Kitson Clark; 1904
  • XII Methley Parish Church Registers, 1560-1812; transcribed and ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1903
  • XIII Leeds Parish Church Registers, 1695-1722, Ninth and Tenth Books, with Armley Chapel, 1695-1711, and Hunslet Chapel, 1686-1724; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1909
  • XIV Leeds Grammar School Admission Books, 1820-1900; ed. and annotated by Edmund Wilson; 1906
  • XV Miscellanea V; ed. by B. P. Scattergood; 1909
  • XVI Architectural Description of Kirkstall Abbey; by W. H. St. John Hope and John Bilson; 1907
  • XVII History of the Parish of Barwick-in-Elmet;by F. S. Colman; 1908
  • XVIII Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire; investigated by F. W. Moorman; 1910
  • XIX Testamenta Leodiensia; Wills of Leeds, Pontefract, Wakefield,Otley and District, 1539-1553; extracted and ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1913
  • XX Leeds Parish Church Registers, 1722-1757, Eleventh and Twelfth Books: ed. by G.D. Lumb; 1914
  • XXI Letters Addressed to Ralph Thoresby, printed from the originals in the possession of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; ed. by W. T. Lancaster; 1912
  • XXII Miscellanea VI; ed. by G. D. I.umb; 1915
  • XXIII Registers of the Chapels of the Parish Church of Leeds. 1724-1703, with a few earlier years (St. John's, Holy Trinity, Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Chapel Allerton, Farnley, Headingley, Holbeck and Hunslet), First and Second Books; transcribed and ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1916
  • XXIV Miscellanea VII; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1919
  • XXV Leeds Parish Church Registers: Baptisms and Burials, 1757-1776 (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Books); Marriages, 1754-1769; transcribed by J. Singleton; ed. by J. Singleton and Miss Emily Hargrave; 1923
  • XXVI Miscellanea VIII ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1924
  • XXVII Testamenta Leodiensia; Wills of Leeds. Pontefract, Wakefield, Otley and District, 1553-1561; extracted and ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1930. Part1 1919, Part 2 1921
  • XXVIII Miscellanea IX; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1928
  • XXIX Registers of the Chapels of St. John, Holy Trinity, Headingley, Bramley, Beeston, Chapel Allerton and Farnley, all in the Parish of Leeds, 1763-1812, and in some cases later years; ed, by G. P. Lumb; 1928
  • XXX History and Description of the Priory of St. Mary, Bolton-in-Wharfedale, with some Account of the Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine and their Houses in Yorkshire; by A. Hamilton Thompson; 1928
  • XXXI Registers of the Chapels of the Parish Church of Leeds, 1764-1812: Holbeck, Armley and Hunslet; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1934
  • XXXII Leeds Woollen Industry, 1780-1820; ed. by W. B. Crump; 1931
  • XXXIII Miscellanea X; ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1935
  • XXXIV Court Books of the Leeds Corporation: First Book, 1662-1705; transcribed by J. G.Clark; 1936
  • XXXV History of Methley: ed. by H S. Darbyshire and G. D. Lumb; 1937
  • XXXVI Parish Register of Aberford, 1510-1812; transcribed and ed. by G. D. Lumb; 1937
  • XXXVII. Miscellany XI; ed. by G. D. Lumb and W. B. Crump. 1945.
  • XXXVIII. Extracts from The Leeds Intelligencer and The Leeds Mercury, 1769-1776: ed. by G. D, Lumb. 1938.
  • XXXIX. Yorkshire fairs and markets, to the end of the eighteenth century; by K, L. McCutcheon. 1940.
  • Mon. I. Thomas Taylor: Regency architect, Leeds; by F. Beckwith. 1949.
  • Mon. II. A survey of the plate of Leeds Parish Church and its ancient chapelries; by J. Sprittles. 1951.
  • Mon. III. Social reform in Victorian Leeds: the work of James Hole, 1820-1895; by J. F. C. Harrison. 1954.
  • XL. Extracts from The Leeds Intelligencer and The Leeds Mercury, 1777-1782; ed. by G. D. Lumb and J. B. Place; with an introductory account of The Leeds Intelligencer, 1754-1866, by F. Beckwith, 1955.
  • XLI. Miscellany XII. 1954.
  • XLII. The Kirkstall Abbey chronicles; ed. by John Taylor. 1952.
  • XLIII. Kirkstall Abbey excavations, 1950-1954. 1955.
  • XLIV. Extracts from The Leeds Intelligencer, 1791-1796; ed. by G. D. Lumb. 1956.
  • XLV. Documents relating to the manor and borough of Leeds, 1066-1400; ed. by John Le Patourel. 1957.
  • XLVI. Miscellany XIII. 1963.
  • XLVII. Printed maps and plans of Leeds, 1711-1900; compiled by K. J. Bonser and H. Nichols, 1960.
  • XLVIII. Kirkstall Abbey excavations, 1955-1959. 1961.
  • XLIX. Pontefract Priory excavations, 1957-1961; by C. V. Bellamy. 1965.
  • L. Miscellany XIV. 1968.
  • LI. Kirkstall Abbey excavations, 1960-1964, with appraisal of results since 1950. 1967.
  • LII. Links with Bygone Leeds, by J. Sprittles. 1969.
  • LIII. Miscellany 15. 1971-73.
  • LIV. Miscellany 16. 1974-79.
  • LV. Leeds and the Oxford Movement, by Nigel Yates. 1975.
  • LVI. Miscellany 17. 1979-81.
  • LVII. The Manor and Borough of Leeds, 1425-1662: an edition of documents, edited by J. W. Kirby. 1983.
  • LVIII. Kirkstall Abbey, 1147-1539: an historical study, by Guy D. Barnes.1984.
  • LIX. Miscellany 18. 1985-86.
  • LX-LXI. East End, West End: the face of Leeds during urbanisation,1684-1842, by Maurice W. Beresford. 1988.
  • LXII. The Georgian Public Buildings of Leeds and the West Riding, by Kevin Grady. 1989.
  • LXIII. Miscellany 19. 1990.
  • LXIV. CENTENARY EDITION 1989 MISCELLANY Leeds in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

Second Series
  • 1. Miscellany. 1991.
  • 2. R. D. Chantrell, Architect: his life and work in Leeds, 1818-1847,by Christopher Webster. 1992.
  • 3. Miscellany. 1993.
  • 4. Miscellany. 1994.
  • 5. Miscellany. 1995.
  • 6. The Fawkes Family and their Estates in Wharfedale, 1819-1936, by Marion Sharples. 1997.
  • 7. Church Architecture in Leeds, 1700-1799, by Terry Friedman.1997.
  • 8. Miscellany. 1998.
  • 9. The Moravian Settlement at Fulneck, 1742-1790, by Geoffrey Stead. 1999.
  • 10. Miscellany. 2000. index to vols lii-lxiv; second series vols 1-14 3
  • 11. Miscellany. 2001.
  • 12. Anglican Resurgence under W. F. Hook in Early Victorian Leeds: Church Life in a Nonconformist Town, 1836-1851, by Harry W. Dalton. 2002.
  • 13. Miscellany. 2003.
  • 14. Miscellany. 2004.
  • 15. More Annals of Leeds 1880 - 1920. William Benn. 2005
  • 16. The Memoranda Book of John Lucas 1712 - 1750 2006
  • 17. TheMonuments of the Parish Church of St Peter-at-Leeds Margaret Pullan 2007
  • Leeds in Maps Leeds Library and Information Service, The Thoresby Society, Yorkshire Evening Post.2007
  • 18. Miscellany. 2008
  • 19. Miscellany. 2009
  • 20. Miscellany. 2010
  • 21. The Thursby Manuscripts. ed. Peter Meredith. 2011
  • 22. Headingley-cum-Burley c.1544 – c.1784. John Cruikshank. 2012
  • 23. The Burial Ground Problem in Leeds, c.1700-1914. Jim Morgan. 2013
  • 24. Miscellany. 2014
  • 25. The Notebooks of Robert Pounder. ed. Ann Alexander 2015
  • Ducatus
  • Tercentenary Volume One - A Celebration of Ralph Thoresby 2015.
  • Volume Two - Ralph Thoresby's Review of his Life, 1658-1714 ed. Peter Meredith. 2015
  • 26 Voices from Wartime Leeds : Three Mass Observation Diaries ed. Patricia & Robert Malcolmson
  • 27 & 28 Libraries in Leeds: A Historical Survey 1152 - c.1939. Peter Morrish, 2019
  • 29 Miscellany. 2019
  • 30 Miscellany. 2020

References
  1. "Home page". Thoresby Society. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  2. Forster, G. C. F. "One Hundred Years of the Thoresby Society". Thoresby Society. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  3. "The Library and Archive Collection". Thoresby Society. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  4. "Thoresby Society". Independent Libraries Association. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
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