Making Up for Lost Time: The Pioneering Years of Huddersfield Corporation

The Huddersfield Local History Society have published a new collection of essays — Making Up for Lost Time: The Pioneering Years of Huddersfield Corporation — which focuses on the years 1868 to 1920, and this can be purchased on their web site:

  • Introduction — David Griffiths
  • Huddersfield in 1867 — Joseph Batley
  • A Pioneer in Municipal Enterprise: Huddersfield, 1868 to 1920 — Cyril Pearce
  • Policing Victorian Huddersfield: Chief Constable Withers and the Re-Founding of the Borough Police Force — David Taylor
  • A Liberal Town? The Politics of Huddersfield Borough, 1868 to 1918 — Brendan Evans
  • A Representative Citizen in Context: James Edward Willans (1842-1926) — Clyde Binfield


The Story of Huddersfield (1968)

If you’d like to learn more about the history of the Borough of Huddersfield, the following publications have been digitised for Huddersfield 150 and are available to read online: