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The name "Leeds" is first attested in the form "Loidis": around 731 Bede mentioned it in book II, chapter 14 of his Historia ecclesiastica, in a discussion of an altar surviving from a church erected by Edwin of Northumbria, located in "...regione quae vocatur Loidis" ('the region known as Loidis').
- Leeds in The Middle Ages
- Leeds 1500-1800
- Leeds in The 19th Century
- Leeds in The 20th Century
- Leeds in The 21st Century
Leeds began as a Saxon village. By the time of the Domesday Book (1086), it had a population of around 200. By the standards of the time, Leeds was quite a large village. Many were much smaller. Then in 1207 the Lord of the Manor, Maurice De Gant, founded a new town at Leeds. At that time trade and commerce were increasing in England and many new t...
Leeds grew much larger in the 16th century. That was mainly due to the rapid growth of a woollen cloth industry in the town. The amount of cloth made in Leeds boomed and the population soared. By the late 16th century the population of Leeds had reached 3,000 and by the middle of the 17th century was probably about 6,000. From being a small and rat...
By 1801, the year of the first census the population of Leeds had reached 30,000. By the standards of the time, it was a large town. By 1851 it had reached 101,000. Leeds grew rapidly but many of the new houses built were dreadful. Overcrowding was rife and the streets were very dirty. As a result, there was a cholera epidemic in Leeds in 1832 whic...
In 1901 the population of Leeds reached 178,000 and it continued to grow rapidly. In 1903 a statue of the Black Prince was erected in City Square. So were statues of 8 nymphs. Leeds University was founded in 1904. Also that year St Annes RC Cathedral was built. Leeds City Market was also built in 1904. The first cinema in Leeds was built in 1905. I...
In the 21st century, Leeds continued to flourish. Millennium Square opened in 2000 and a new Leeds City Museum opened in 2008. Trinity Leeds opened in 2013. In 2023 the population of Leeds was 812,000.
A collection of articles exploring the history of Leeds, illustrated with unique and memorable books and other stock resources from the Leeds Libraries collections. Scroll to read an introduction, click a link to read more, or see our History of Leeds research guide for further resources.
Tory / Ultra-Tory. Michael Thomas Sadler (3 January 1780 – 29 July 1835) was a British Tory Member of Parliament (MP) whose Evangelical Anglicanism and prior experience as a Poor Law administrator in Leeds led him to oppose Malthusian theories of population and their use to decry state provision for the poor.
Diocese embracing the West Riding of Yorkshire, and that part of the city of York to the south of the River Ouse. Though one of the fourteen dioceses now comprised in the Province of Westminster, it was not erected at the time of the restoration of the English hierarchy by Pius IX in 1850.
Jun 10, 2021 · But what of Leeds itself in the 15 th-century? Well, around the same time our Charter was being written, in 1480, Leeds was described by one contemporary as “being near Rothwell”, a complete reversal of how we would describe those two places today.
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Jun 11, 2008 · Religion and Place in Leeds: A Survey and Gazetteer of Places of Worship 1900-2005 (PDF, 40.22 MB) The report examines a number of places of worship within the suburbs of Leeds, based on research and fieldwork carried out for the Religion and Place in Leeds project.
