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Librarian Antony Ramm looks over the collection. The show will include copies of the popular Leeds United fanzine The Square Ball, featuring Elland Road idols including Gordon Strachan and Lucas Radebe, Marching Altogether, founded by Leeds fans to campaign against racism and fascism in football and Bradford City’s City Gent – the longest running football zine in the country. Exploring the huge and varied impact grassroots self-publishing has had on football fan culture, the exhibition, which is co-produced with British Library, will trace the birth of zines in the 1970s, right through to modern, multimedia content.

Librarian Antony Ramm looks over the collection. The show will include copies of the popular Leeds United fanzine The Square Ball, featuring Elland Road idols including Gordon Strachan and Lucas Radebe, Marching Altogether, founded by Leeds fans to campaign against racism and fascism in football and Bradford City’s City Gent – the longest running football zine in the country. Exploring the huge and varied impact grassroots self-publishing has had on football fan culture, the exhibition, which is co-produced with British Library, will trace the birth of zines in the 1970s, right through to modern, multimedia content.

Librarian Antony Ramm looks over the collection. The show will include copies of the popular Leeds United fanzine The Square Ball, featuring Elland Road idols including Gordon Strachan and Lucas Radebe, Marching Altogether, founded by Leeds fans to campaign against racism and fascism in football and Bradford City’s City Gent – the longest running football zine in the country. Exploring the huge and varied impact grassroots self-publishing has had on football fan culture, the exhibition, which is co-produced with British Library, will trace the birth of zines in the 1970s, right through to modern, multimedia content.

Librarian Antony Ramm looks over the collection. The show will include copies of the popular Leeds United fanzine The Square Ball, featuring Elland Road idols including Gordon Strachan and Lucas Radebe, Marching Altogether, founded by Leeds fans to campaign against racism and fascism in football and Bradford City’s City Gent – the longest running football zine in the country. Exploring the huge and varied impact grassroots self-publishing has had on football fan culture, the exhibition, which is co-produced with British Library, will trace the birth of zines in the 1970s, right through to modern, multimedia content.

Kay Richardson visitor assistant at Lotherton with the Bo Peep costume. Credit David Lindsay.

Louise Horsley (L) and Kay Richardson -visitor assistants from Lotherton with the Bop Peep costume. Although the dress became part of the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection, years of enthusiastic wear and tear by its former owner had sadly taken their toll. But now, thanks to a restoration project supported by The Friends of Leeds City Museums, the newly restored dress will be one of the star exhibits in Fashion at Play, an exhibition opening at Lotherton in the spring exploring the fascinating story of children’s fashions through the ages. Credit David Lindsay

An album of photographs, which will also be on display as part of the exhibition, documents a spectacular children’s fancy dress ball hosted at Leeds Town Hall by the mayor and mayoress of Leeds, Mr and Mrs Alf Cooke on January 12, 1891. Nearly 400 children from well to do families attended, with each child dressed in beautiful costumes depicting everything from fairytale characters to famous figures from history.

An album of photographs, which will also be on display as part of the exhibition, documents a spectacular children’s fancy dress ball hosted at Leeds Town Hall by the mayor and mayoress of Leeds, Mr and Mrs Alf Cooke on January 12, 1891. Nearly 400 children from well to do families attended, with each child dressed in beautiful costumes depicting everything from fairytale characters to famous figures from history.

Although the dress later became part of the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection, years of enthusiastic wear and tear by its former owner had sadly taken their toll. But now, thanks to a restoration project supported by The Friends of Leeds City Museums, the newly restored dress will be one of the star exhibits in Fashion at Play, an exhibition opening at Lotherton in the spring exploring the fascinating story of children’s fashions through the ages. Credit David Lindsay

Although the dress later became part of the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection, years of enthusiastic wear and tear by its former owner had sadly taken their toll. But now, thanks to a restoration project supported by The Friends of Leeds City Museums, the newly restored dress will be one of the star exhibits in Fashion at Play, an exhibition opening at Lotherton in the spring exploring the fascinating story of children’s fashions through the ages. Credit David Lindsay.

Although the dress later became part of the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection, years of enthusiastic wear and tear by its former owner had sadly taken their toll. But now, thanks to a restoration project supported by The Friends of Leeds City Museums, the newly restored dress will be one of the star exhibits in Fashion at Play, an exhibition opening at Lotherton in the spring exploring the fascinating story of children’s fashions through the ages. Credit David Lindsay