Obtaining copies of The Bradford Antiquary

As well as organising lecture meetings, the Society publishes The Bradford Antiquary on an occasional basis, most recently Issue Number 10 of the Third Series.

The current issue and a number of older issues are available for sale. To order your copies please download, fill in and post the order form. Unfortunately we can only accept payments by cheque from a UK bank.

Issues to 1999 inclusive cost £3 (£2 for members) plus 50p postage. A pack of all eight issues costs £17 (£10 for members), post free.

Issues for 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 cost £5 (£3 for members) plus 50p postage.

Outline contents of recent issues are:

Part XXXIX (1958): Armorial glass at Bolling Hall; a Civil War hand grenade; two Bingley postscripts; the West Riding Foreign Affairs Committee; Bingley Volunteers in the Napoleonic War; an early Bradford bank note.

Part XLVI (1976): Wilfrid Robertshaw, M.A.; the Manningham Mills strike; the Bradford Protestation return; John Nicholson, unpublished poems; Bradford Friendly Societies in the 1790's; Index to Volume IX.

Part XLVII (1982): Mid-Victorian Bradford; the Exley family of Rawdon; an 18th century magistrate, Samuel Lister; old Bradford charities; the Bradford Lime Kiln Company; the Protestation of the commons, 1641.

Number 3 (1987): Saltaire; the Low Moor explosion; the Workers' Educational Association; the Milligans of Dumfriesshire and Yorkshire; Philip Snowden.

Number 4 (1989): The Richardsons at Bierley Hall; Bradford's Western boundary; the Raynors of Burley; the Great Bradford Exhibition of 1904; Robert and James B. Cartwright; Carr House Farm; a Wibsey medical family; the Masons Arms; occupations in 18th century Bradford.

Number 5 (1990): Textile and Society in Bradford and Lawrence, USA; the Social-Democratic Federation; the Independent Labour Party; old photographs of Wapping; building plans of Little Germany; the Gledhill family; Alfred Coe.

Number 6 (1992): Bradford Triennial Music Festivals; pubs in Mid-Victorian Bradford; old photographs of the Conditioning House; beer brewing in Bradford; enemy air activity over Bradford.

Number 7 (1999): The Bradford Canal; lost villages of Baildon Moor; James Warburton, apothecary; the Memory Bank (oral history); history on the net.

Number 8 (2003): A ceremonial sword; Judy Woods; Sir George Scott Robertson MP; Cleckheaton's medical provision; a wartime fireman's memories; the Booth family of Wibsey; education in Saltaire; the railway to Cullingworth; schooldays in Wibsey; Bradford Moor memories.

Number 9 (2005): William Cudworth, a 19th century local historian; Littlemoor & Harrowins (Queensbury); Bradford Eye & Ear Hospital; Bradford Canal; Music in Bradford; Parson Bull & Miss Currer; Some Bradford Hotels; Workers' Housing in Keighley; Frederick W. Eurich; A Milliner's Apprentice.

Number 10 (2006): The Battle of Bradford: Riots against the New Poor Law; The Mystery of Wibsey Manor; The 1867 Bradford By-Election; Bradford's Municipal Baths and Wash-Houses; Haworth Wool-Combers; John Wood: Bradford's Father of Factory Reform; Robert Milligan, Draper and Merchant; Did Allerton have a Mediaeval Mill?; The Victorian Club Culture of Keighley.

Number 11 (2007): Fake or genuine? The 1772 Map of Bradford and Horton; Dr J.H. Bell and Woolsorters' Disease; Wibsey Chapel: The First Four Hundred Years; The Woolsorters' Baths and Gardens; 'Classic Cards', Bradford: The History of W.N. Sharpe Ltd; John Wood: John Wood: Bradford's Father of Factory Reform. Part 2: The Hampshire Years; A Remarkable Family: The Cravens of Cullingworth.