Books and other publications relating to the history of Huddersfield and its surrounding districts.

A large selection of historic books relating more generally to Yorkshire is also currently being compiled.

If you are the author of a book listed on this page (or if you are their descendant) and you would be willing to allow the text to be made available on this site, please get in touch!

The following works have been digitised or transcribed for this web site:

• Armchair Cricket: A Summary of Huddersfield Cricket (1937) by "Cyrc"
• The Early Years of the Huddersfield Building Society (1974) by T.H. Hall
• Extracts from the Diary of the Rev. Robert Meeke (1874) by Henry James Morehouse & Charles Augustus Hulbert
• The Great War 1914-18: Meltham and District (1920)
• The Flood Came and Took Them All Away: A Sermon on the Holmfirth Flood (1852) by Rev. Joshua Fawcett
• The History and Topography of the Parish of Kirkburton and of the Graveship of Holme (1861) by Henry James Morehouse
• The History of the Township of Meltham, Near Huddersfield (1866) by Rev. Joseph Hughes
• History of Ravensknowle & Scheme for the Development of a Local Museum (1921) by Legh Tolson and T.W. Woodhead
• History of the Huddersfield Water Supplies (1939) by T.W. Woodhead
• History of the Library Movement in Huddersfield (1945)
• History of the Meltham Industrial Co-operative Trading Society Limited: Jubilee 1861-1911 (1911) by A. Haigh
• Holy Trinity, Huddersfield: Three Lectures on the History of the Church and Parish, 1819-1904 (1913) by Rev. A.S. Weatherhead
• Huddersfield Holidays at Home: Souvenir Handbook (1943)
• Huddersfield: The Official Handbook (1930)
• A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District (1928) by Walter E. Haigh
• The Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Meltham: Ter-Centenary 1651-1951 (1951)
• St. Paul's, Huddersfield: The Days That Are Past, 1828-1928 (1928)
• Picturesque Views of Huddersfield (c.1900)
• Slaithwaite Notes: Past and Present (1905) by John Sugden
• Social Services in Huddersfield (1951)
• Sorrow on the Land: An Account of the Inundation Occasioned by the Bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir (1852)
• Story of the Golcar Town School (1926) by John Griffiths