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  2. Leeds Conservatoire - Wikipedia

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    www.leedsconservatoire.ac.uk. The conservatoire building in Quarry Hill in 2014. Leeds Conservatoire (formerly known as The Leeds Music Centre, the City of Leeds College of Music, and Leeds College of Music) is a higher education music conservatoire based in the Quarry Hill district of Leeds, England. It was founded in 1965 by Joseph Stones.

  3. Ray Bush - Wikipedia

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    Bush earned his PhD on The colonial factor and social transformation on the Gold Coast to 1930 at the University of Leeds in 1984. He has taught the postgraduate modules Political Economy of Resources and Development and Africa in the Contemporary World since he took over from Morris Szeftel in 2005, and is currently the program manager for the MA in Global Development and Africa. [4]

  4. Leeds Central Library - Wikipedia

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    The Central Library is a Grade II* listed building and was constructed between 1878 and 1884. [3][4] The building was opened on 17 April 1884 by the Mayor, Alderman Edwin Woodhouse as the Leeds Municipal Offices. It was intended that various scattered borough departments would be accommodated in the building so that the administration of Leeds ...

  5. Brotherton Library - Wikipedia

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    Brotherton Library. The Brotherton Library is a 1936 Grade II listed Neoclassical building with some art deco fittings, located on the main campus of the University of Leeds. It was designed by the firm of Lanchester & Lodge, and is named after Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, who in 1927 donated £100,000 to the university as funding ...

  6. Leeds Model Company - Wikipedia

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    The Leeds Model Company was a model railway company. The company made o gauge wooden coaches and wagons with lithograph sides and a very large range of model locomotives as well as track and railway accessories. Their quality was equal to that of most other companies at the time, including Bassett Lowke and Hornby Trains, which in the UK were ...

  7. University of Leeds - Wikipedia

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    University of Leeds. The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884 it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Yorkshire College.

  8. Leeds Library - Wikipedia

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    The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. It was founded in 1768, [1] following an advertisement placed in the Leeds Intelligencer earlier that year. The first secretary was Joseph Priestley. [2] In 1779, James Boswell wrote, "In Leeds, where one would not expect it, there is a very good public ...

  9. Leeds Arts University - Wikipedia

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    It was known as Leeds College of Art and Design until 2009, and then as Leeds College of Art. [7] In August 2017, the school was granted university status and the name was changed to Leeds Arts University. [8] Skin, DJ, fashion icon, actress, activist and lead singer of Skunk Anansie, was appointed as the university's chancellor in 2021. [9]