#Leeds400
Ooh, this sounds interesting from @leedslibraries.bsky.social ⬇️

'Leeds Other Stories will champion stories of people often left out, such as unpaid caregivers, refugees or asylum seekers, and LGBTQ+ people. We will weave our own stories with news from Leeds Other Paper...' #LeedsHistory #Leeds400
"Leeds Other Stories " A Fall into place Theatre Performance - Leeds 400 at Leeds Central Library - 1st floor - Music Library
Tickets are now available for "Leeds Other Stories " A Fall into place Theatre Performance - Leeds 400 at Leeds Central Library - 1st floor - Music Library, Leeds between Mon 23 Nov 2026 and Mon 30 No...
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November 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
& inspired by #Leeds400 starting researching some of the people who issued them

Leeds is celebrating 400 years since it's first Royal Charter, and these tokens were essentially issued by prominent 'second generation' people. These were wealthy folks, whose businesses required small change ...
October 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
September 25, 2026 at 7:27 AM
There's a great little exhibition about 400 years of #LeedsHistory on at @leedslibraries.bsky.social at the moment - and it's really good to see the role of the local alternative press properly acknowledged.
#Leeds400 #LeedsOtherPaper #ChapeltownNews
September 24, 2026 at 7:09 AM
A big season finale at the Club today. 🏏

The Girls v Parents game is underway, followed by our Sixes Competition, alongside the Church's #Leeds400 event, and then the Junior Presentation from 6pm.

#cricket #sport #headingley #leeds #community
September 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Delighted to get wool/DNA story into Science & Nature section for #trivialpursuitleeds & attend official press launch at #LeedsCityMuseum last Friday as part of celebrations of #Leeds400! Well done to everyone involved esp LeedsBID team & a big thanks to Tom Arber @Chapter81 for great photos!
July 27, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Details now available for something I am really looking forward to doing in September - I'm edging more and more into the seventeenth century and it turns out, I quite like it
www.leedsphilandlit.org.uk/shop/wars-wi...
Wars, witches, rebellions and reading - Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
Surviving the unsettled 1620s in Europe - The Annual John Roles Memorial Lecture, a Leeds400 event - with Dr Sara Barker, University of Leeds
www.leedsphilandlit.org.uk
May 19, 2026 at 8:39 AM
OTD 1626 Leeds Borough Charter was granted.

The Borough boundary was widened to be same as parish: 32.8 square miles.

Powers to:
🦉 Create Corporation – later LCC – headed by Alderman John Savile, whose family crest had 3 owls
🦉 Manage cloth trade
🦉 Hold courts and enforce local laws
July 13, 2026 at 6:32 AM
I respectfully suggest that we have more owls in Leeds, and older ones too.
Our owls date back 400 years.
#Leeds400
🦉🐏🦉

A small sample:
June 4, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Looking forward to getting back to WYSO and to this #Leeds400 in the city museum
March 25, 2026 at 10:33 AM
There are so many reasons we love Leeds, it’s hard to pick one! 🩵

To celebrate #Leeds400 through the places that make Leeds, Leeds, we are exploring how the University of Leeds has contributed to the wider city. 🏙️🦉
July 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
It's #MuseumJigsaw and it's #Graduation season 👨‍🎓🥳

It's also #Leeds400 so what's more perfect than recognising the beautiful Great Hall where @universityofleeds.bsky.social students graduate each year? Up to 7,000 students pass through each summer. What a clever bunch the lot of you are! 🤓
July 13, 2026 at 11:02 AM
A few weeks off for the wind & brass now, while the strings rehearse for our April concert at Leeds City Museum #Leeds400

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/whats-on/lee...
Leeds 400 Concert with West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra
In this special concert, the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra will be playing music marking 400 years of the city of Leeds being granted its royal charter. We’ll be blowing the dust off some of the m...
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk
March 25, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Just over a week to go until our special routine created for Leeds400 at Bramley Baths  #WhatsYour400? #MoreThanAPool
July 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM
In the May half term we're inviting Under 16s to join us at Leeds Central Library to create artwork to submit to our Leeds400 Art Competition.

📆Tuesday 26 May
⏰14:00-16:00
🎫Pay as you can
🔗zurl.co/LNIPD
May 8, 2026 at 10:47 AM
One month to go until the deadline for our Leeds400 Art Competition!

There are two categories:
🎨 The under 16s category is themed 'How would you like Leeds to be in 400 years?'
🎨 The 16s and over category is themed 'Prospects of Leeds'

👉Read more on our website: zurl.co/kaeGU

#leeds400
May 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
📣Hark! 🦉 As part of the Leeds400 celebrations, Leeds Civic Trust is pleased to announce four historical theatrical walks delivered in partnership with Jude Kershaw of Run of the Mill History. Join a time travelling resident on these walks

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April 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
📣You asked, we delivered!

💻 You can now view two of our 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures online!

🔗zurl.co/cwkGr

#leeds400
March 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM
🎤Our annual series of FREE lunchtime lectures returns for its 19th year! As part of the Leeds 400 celebrations, the lectures focus on anniversaries marking the history Leeds.

📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG

#leeds400
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 AM