Welcome to The Bradford Antiquary
The Bradford Antiquary has been published for over 100 years. The current issue of The Bradford Antiquary (No.86, 2025) can be bought directly from us, we have an order form you can download. The contents of the current issue are given at the bottom of the page. Back copies of some issues are also available, a brief outline of their contents is given on the back issues page.
You can browse the online material in several ways. Either go to one of the three lists of articles where you will find papers, reviews of books and pamphlets, or other articles such as editorials and reports of events of interest to local historians
Alternatively, you could look at the list of authors where you will find links to information about them and their writings. The above information is now limited to the online documents and has not been updated
We have now digitised each series up to and including the edition for 2019. These can be accessed by clicking on the DIGITISED COPIES link right.
There are thirteen PDFfiles available to download. Each file has a number and the years covered. Clicking on the file will bring up a list of the volumes included. downloaded files can be searched Using a PDF reader by using Control F for any word you choose and the pages will be highlighted at the left of the screen. That page can then be checked for your search word.
Contents of the current issue
No.86, 2026:
| St Barnabas Church, Heaton and the glass art of Charles Kempe. | Derek Barker and Dianne Excell |
| Where Bradford has come first...... A heritage of innovation and record breaking . |
Martin Greenwood |
| Edward Leedes of Royds Hall | Mary Twentyman |
| Bradford in Poetry | Bob Duckett |
| The Reverend John Booth | John P Letherbridge |
| "Italianate Splendour in Bradford" Titus Salt's church at Saltaire | Dr Simon Ross Valentine |
| The Heart of Germanic Bradford: The Schiller-Verin Club 1862-1914 | Dr David Pendleton |
| A Bradford Book Hunt | James Ogden |
| Antiquarian Schools Competition 2025 | Sue Steel |
| Book reviews | Bob Duckett, Astrid Hansen, David J.M. Leyshon |
| Obituaries of Gina Bridgeland and John Haigh | Sue Steel and Bob Duckett |
The One Hundred and Forty Seventh Annual Report 2025 |