The other part of Keighley library

A couple of days ago I blipped the lending library section of Keighley library, the first Carnegie library to be opened in England. To complete the picture, here’s upstairs which is referred to as the Local Studies Library. The books in here are mainly for reference.
The Brontë village of Haworth being not far away it is not surprising that there is a substantial Brontë section, including not only the novels and poems but treatises on the family members and their works and the transactions of the Brontë Society.
More surprising is the Snowden library, bequeathed by the wife of Philip Snowden, later Lord Snowden, who was an important campaigner for women’s rights. Born the son of a weaver close by, he rose to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Snowden library, taking the whole wall at the end of the room, has several interesting books written by prominent female activists in the early 1900s.