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This category contains 13 sites:

• 1914/18 Leeds Absent Voters - A database of 50,000 names compiled from the Leeds Absent Voters List of the Leeds Electoral Roll 1918/19.
• Ford-Maguire Society of Leeds - Documenting the socialist, feminist and other radical history of the Leeds area. Includes information on communism in Leeds, riots in the city, references, and biographies of Isabella Ford and Tom Maguire.
• Historic Trails - Two Historic Trails in Leeds from Leeds City Council. Maps and instructions, with historical notes and photographs.
• Leodis - On-line history of Leeds. About 50 accounts and sources collected by an amateur historian.
• Leodis Database - Searchable photographic archive for Leeds, which can be restricted by locality, and by decade or year.
• Modern History Sourcebook - The Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786, against the use of machines in their industry.
• Sundials in and around Leeds - An introduction to sundials around Leeds; details of where to find the surviving examples.
• The Battle of Winwaed - An account of a major battle in West Yorkshire in 655 AD, with ramifications for future development of England.
• The Church of St John the Evangelist - A brief guide to this church in central Leeds, no longer an active church but looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust.
• The Leeds Indexers - An informal group of family historians, who maintain this on-line listing of sources for records useful to local and family historians.
• The Story of Sewerage in Leeds - The history of the development of sewage services in Leeds from the 19th century, in 9 chapters.
• The Thoresby Society - Promotes interest and research into the history of Leeds and its neighbourhood. An online collection of articles and a time-line. Details of membership, programme of events, and a list of publications.
• The Urban Geography of Leeds - An account of the development and history of Leeds from the 18th century to the 20th.