What’s on
Featured exhibitions
Fairy Tales
A family adventure through magical worlds and enchanted stories.
Story Explorers in Leeds
Our Story Explorers exhibition is launching off to Leeds! Play your way around this family exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries.
All Events
List of Events
How to Start and Run a Successful Restaurant, Coffee Bar or Food Business
Explore the best ways of opening and running a viable and profitable food business like a cafe, restaurant, bakery, or cake shop!
Fashion Founder Friday
These informal AMA’s, hosted by Fashion Angel Founder Alison Lewy MBE, give you the opportunity to ask any business related questions.
How do I research my market?
A guide to using published market research sources and field research to find information on your business sector.
Threads of Change: Visible Mending & Textile Care
Discover the art of visible mending and learn how to give your wardrobe a second life.
Building Tour
Discover more about our history, collection and architecture.
Writer's Summer School: Revitalise Your Writing
Refresh your writing process at our week-long summer school for writers.
What is a trade mark and how to search for one
Customers need to be able to identify your business from your competition in a highly competitive market place.
Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
Writing women into the history of the British Empire, and mapping the Library’s Latin American collections.
Family Under 5's: Sensory Adventures
Start the summer with sensory storytelling.