Yorkshire CD books

Computer Searchable CD roms
for the West Riding of Yorkshire

All our CD roms are presented as scanned images in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format,
and are supplied in a virtually unbreakable flexible black plastic case (see photograph).

Prices quoted are post paid to your door (by Airmail if abroad) to anywhere in the world.

Payment can be made either by Sterling Cheque drawn on a UK bank,
or with a Credit Card via in your own currency (I don't charge my buyers extra)

Please see the ordering and payment information page
for details on methods of payment.

A simple list of the books available for the above area follows.
For details on the book/CD rom, please take the relevant "Details" link.

The following list is in Geographical order, starting at the North West and ending at the South East of the West Riding, thus the Craven area is at the top, and Sheffield is towards the bottom. The list is divided into headed sections.

The Craven and Wharfedale areas, inc. Skipton and Ilkley
The History of Craven	Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker	£20	Details
"The History of Skipton"	W. Harbutt Dawson	£12	Details
"Ilkley Ancient and Modern"	The Rev. R. Collyer & J Horsfall Turner	£12	Details
"Craven and the North West Yorkshire Highlands" and "Upper Wharfedale" 2 books on one CDrom	Harry Speight and Harry Speight	£12	Details
Sedbergh, Garsdale and Dent - a history.(1892) and The Sedbergh School Register, 1546 to 1909 2 books on one CDrom	W. Thompson and B. Wilson	£15	Details

The Nidderdale and Harrogate areas
"Harrogate Records"	Walter Kaye	£12	Details
"Nidderdale" and "Eden Vale to the plains of York" 2 books on one CDrom	Harry Speight and Edmund Bogg	£15	Details
"History and Topography of Harrogate" and "Kirkby Overblow and district" 2 books on one CDrom	W. Grainge and Harry Speight	£12	Details
"Lower Wharfedale", "Lower Wharfeland" and "The Histories of Sherburn & Cawood" 3 books on one CDrom	Harry Speight, Edmund Bogg and W. Wheater	£15	Details

The Bradford, Bingley and Keighley areas
"History of Bradford" and "Old Bingley" 2 books on one CDrom	John James and Harry Speight	£15	Details
"Bolton and Bowling" and "Rambles Round Horton" 2 books on one CDrom	William Cudworth	£15	Details
"Round about Bradford" and "Histories of Manningham, Allerton & Heaton"	William Cudworth	£15	Details
"Haworth: past and present", "Keighley: past & present" and "The history of Stanbury" 3 books on one CDrom	J. Horsfall Turner, Robert Holmes and Joseph Craven	£12	Details
"Pen & Pencil pictures of Old Bradford" and "Historical notes on Bradford Corporation" 2 books on one CDrom	William Scruton and William Cudworth	£15	Details

The Leeds, Yeadon and Guiseley areas
"The History of the Ancient Parish of Guiseley"	Philemon Slater	£12	Details
"The History of Leeds" or "Ducatus Leodiensis"	By Ralph Thoresby & T.D. Whitaker	£15	Details
"The History of Yeadon" and "The Court Rolls of Yeadon and Esholt Priory" 2 books on one CDrom	Roy Price	£12	Details
History of Leeds and Elmete (Loidis and Elmete)	Dr. Thomas Dunham Whitaker	£15	Details

The Halifax, Todmorden and Northowram areas, including Brighouse, Hipperholme etc.
"The Northowram Nonconformist register", "Oliver Heywood's Diaries" (4 Volumes) and "Northowram, its History and Antiquities" 6 books on one CDrom	J Horsfall Turner and Mark Pearson	£20	Details
"The History of Brighouse, Rastrick and Hipperholme" and "Independency at Brighouse" 2 books on one CDrom	J Horsfall Turner	£15	Details
"Halifax, Families and Worthies", "History of Halifax" and "Halifax Guardian Almanack, 1908" 3 books on one CDrom	J Horsfall Turner, John Crabtree and Halifax Guardian	£15	Details
"The History and Antiquities of Halifax", "Ancient Halls in and Around Halifax" and "Halifax Courier's Almanack 1937" 3 books on one CDrom	Rev. John Watson, Arthur Comfort and Halifax Courier	£15	Details
"Todmorden" 4 books on Todmorden 4 books on one CDrom	John Travis	£12	Details
"From Hipperholme to Tong"	James Parker	£12	Details
"The Yorkshire Coiners & Old and Pre Historic Halifax"	H. Ling Roth	£12	Details
The Story of Old Halifax, The History of the Halifax Industrial Society, Olde Elland and The Story of Illingworth Church 4 books on one CDrom	T.W. Hanson, M. Blatchford, Lucy Hamerton & J.W. Clay and G.R. Oakley	£15	Details

The Huddersfield, Elland, Meltham and Saddleworth areas.
"Huddersfield and its vicinity"	R.F.E. Sykes LL.B.	£12	Details
"The Church & Chapelry of Saddleworth"	Alfred Howcroft	£8	Details
"The History of Meltham", "The History of Huddersfield", "Almondbury School" and "The Elland Tragedies" 4 books on one CDrom	J. Hughes, Taylor Dyson and J. Horsfall Turner	£15	Details
History of Whalley (with the honor of Clitheroe and parish of Cartmell) Both volumes on one CDrom	Dr. T.D. Whitaker LL.D., F.S.A.	£20	Details

The Spen Valley (Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike etc) and Morley areas.
"Morley, Ancient and Modern"	William Smith	£12	Details
"Spen Valley, past and present"	Frank Peel	£12	Details
"Spen Valley" and "Nonconformity in Spen Valley" 2 books on one CDrom	T.W. Thompson and Frank Peel	£12	Details

The Selby and Haddlesey areas
"The History of Haddlesey"	The Rev. J.N. Worsfold	£12	Details
"History and Antiquities of Selby"	W. Wilberforce Morrell	£12	Details

The Wakefield and Dewsbury areas.
"The History of Wakefield" and "The Early History of Dewsbury" 2 books on one Cdrom	Thomas Taylor and J.B. Greenwood	£15	Details
"Wakefield, its History and People"	J.W. Walker	£12	Details

The Thorne, Doncaster, Sheffield and Dinnington areas.
"Hunter's Hallamshire" (History of Sheffield)	Rev. Joseph Hunter	£15	Details
"Smith of Doncaster and Connected Familes"	Henry Eckroyd Smith	£12	Details
"The History and Antiquities of Doncaster"	Edward Miller, Mus.D.	£12	Details
"The History & Antiquities of Thorne"	J. Mason	£10	Details
"The Documentary History of Dinnington" (previously unpublished)	Gerald H. Stratford	£12	Details
"Hunter's South Yorkshire" (History of the Deanery of Doncaster) both volumes on one CDrom	The Rev. Joseph Hunter	£20	Details

Other areas
The History and Topography of the Parish of Silkstone and Worthies, Families and Celebrities of Barnsley and district. 2 books on one CDrom	Rev. Joseph F. Prince. and Joseph Wilkinson	£15	Details

Included on all our Yorkshire CDroms are 5 maps:

A map showing the wapentakes.
3 maps showing the parishes within the Ridings
A detailed map of Yorkshire showing which places were within which parishes in the pre 1832 era (i.e. the ancient parishes)

Quality.
I take pride in my work, and I try to put the best possible scanned images on the CDroms that I produce so that they are easily readable on a computer monitor without having to strain to read. The scanned images of text pages on my CDroms are black and white (not greyscale) and when printed will give you a good facsimile of the page as it was when originally printed. The images have around 95% of the spurious dots removed (and 99.9% of the smaller ones), and are centred on the pages which are, where possible, a consistent size - I write my own software for doing this. The images are as square to to page as I can get them. Needless to say, the processing required to give you this quality image, along with making the image on the CDrom searchable, all takes time and money, and I believe my CDs are second to none in quality and value for money.

All of the books above are machine searchable i.e. you can search for a word (name) or a phrase. Being machine searchable also allows the Acrobat "Read out loud" facility to work for those who are visually impaired.

All my books are scanned with the pages as flat as possible to the image sensor in order to keep scanning distortions to a minimum - I do not use an overhead scanner which gives horizontally compressed characters towards the centre of the book due to the curve on the pages and does not remove the print skewing relative to the page edges that occurs in many of the older books.

Presentation

The images on the CDrom are in Acrobat pdf format, and are presented as individual books accessible from a common starting point which should appear automatically when the CDrom is inserted in the computer.

If you would prefer the real book(s), please contact The Idle Booksellers through their website.