Browse Items (18 total)

Insurance schedule for the Institute building for 1923 - 1924

Borrowing register of books and journals for the years 1887 - 1903.
This document is now quite fragile and some pages have become very faded.
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Cash book and register containing details of membership, subscriptions and expenditure for the years 1904 - 1912.
This book has been very badly water damaged resulting in some pages becoming very faded.
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Register of Society members from 1863 - 1867
Volume 4 of 4
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Register of members from 1859 - 1986
Volume 3 of 4
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Register of Society members from 1856 - 1859
Volume 2 of 4
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Initial register of Society members
Volume 1 of 4
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Record of members, subscriptions & expenditure for the years 1876 - 1884 .
Volume 3 of 3
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Record of members, subscriptions and expenditure for the years 1871 - 1875
Volume 2 of 3
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Record of members, subscriptions and expenditure for the years 1867 - 1871
Volume 1 of 3
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Volume 2 of the original 1854 minute book detailing meetings, social events, and village life. Available to download

The original minute book from the start of the society. It details the original society rules, meeting minutes and registers of members. Available to download

Concise chronological summary of the history of the Keld Literary Institute building

The original Rules of the Keld Mutual Intellectual Improvement Society. These are the first hand written entries in the 1854 Minute Book.

Speech made by James Wilkinson at the official opening of the Keld Literary Institute building in June 1862.

Account of the Keld Mutual Improvement Society's Tea Party held on BIrk Hill, neat Kisdon Force in August 1867

A study of the great mid nineteenth century pastor with a passion for education whose energy and powers of persuasion rebuilt the chapel and manse, established the school and built the Institute.

The story of the Keld Institute from its beginnings as part of the mid-Victorian passion for self improvement, to the great 1913 dispute over dancing, to its present-day re-formation as an modern activity and exhibition space.