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The Pontefract Hermits

Andrew Edwards explores the caves carved out by medieval hermits.

• 4 mins

The Bramhope tunnel where 24 men died

Andrew Edwards visits the Navvies memorial in Otley

• 4 mins

The forgotten treasures of Leeds

Behind the scenes at the Leeds Discovery Centre, home to over 1.3 million artefacts.

• 3 mins

The history of Leeds' famous clocks

John McGoldrick from the Leeds Industrial Museum on Leeds鈥� Potts clocks.

• 3 mins

The battle of the Gawthorpe Maypole

Duncan Smith describes the events that took place when the maypole was sawn down

• 3 mins

The Todmorden UFOs

Find out how Todmorden has somehow found itself to be the centre of the UFO world.

• 2 mins

The lore of the Calderdale talisman

John Billingsley is an expert on the subject of folklore in the Calder Valley.

• 3 mins

Leeds鈥� Quarry Hill flats

Photographer Peter Mitchell documented the demise of the housing complex.

• 3 mins

Finding the lost Roundhay Summer House

Rachael Unsworth and Steve Bailey search the park for the lost outbuilding.

• 5 mins

The Halifax beheadings

Discover the gruesome history of the 13th Century gibbet.

• 5 mins

The history of Leeds' back-to-back streets

Colin and Elizabeth James describe how the terraces came to be so popular in Leeds.

• 3 mins

The history of Queensbury Tunnel

This incredible feat of engineering joined Bradford and Halifax when it opened in 1878.

• 3 mins

Wakefield tourism's best kept secret

The Chantry Chapel was built in 1356 on the River Calder.

• 2 mins

The history of Wakefield's Double Two shirts

This famous attire was the first shirt to come with detachable collars.

• 5 mins

The history of Bradford's lost Jowett cars

Andrew Edwards visits the Bradford Industrial Museum to see these local motoring icons.

• 4 mins

Inside the deepest, longest canal tunnel in the UK

Standedge Tunnel has been opened to canoeists for the first time in its 200-year history.

• 2 mins

Pontefract: Home of the first secret ballot box

Why 'potwalloping' and polling went hand in hand, Dave Evans explains.

• 6 mins

The curious memorial of Ethel Preston

Ann Lightman of Friends Of Lawnswood Cemetery tells us Ethel's story.

• 4 mins

The Halifax man who changed the way we drive

Percy Shaw invented the 鈥榗at鈥檚 eye鈥� in 1934 in Boothtown, Halifax.

• 5 mins

The 330 million year old oddity in Bradford park

Lister Park is home to one of the oldest fossilised trees in the world.

• 4 mins

The Leeds hill where you can see York Minster

The long history of Rawdon Billing and its spectacular views across 3 counties.

• 4 mins

The history of British wrestling and Yorkshire

Gaz Thompson speaks to Gayle Lofthouse about how wrestling in the UK boomed.

• 6 mins

The true story of Halifax's "Tower of spite鈥�

Steve Crabtree talks about the history of one of West Yorkshire's most iconic landmarks.

• 5 mins

The enormous arches made of bread

Antony Ramm from The Secret Library explains why Leeds and Rothwell made these structures.

• 5 mins

The mystery of the bloody footprint

Mandy Tyas from Oakwell Hall explains the story of Captain William Blatt.

• 4 mins

The legend of Elland's headless horseman

Author Paul Weatherhead tells the tale of "Old Leathery Coit".

• 5 mins

Shibden Hall and the real "Gentleman Jack"

Historian Angela Clare on the real life and story of Halifax's Anne Lister.

• 5 mins

The case of the secret Leeds coin clipper

Chris Nickson tells the story of Arthur Mangy, who was hanged for treason in 1696.

• 4 mins

The forgotten women of Wakefield

Sarah Leah Cobham explains her campaign to recognise incredible women in history.

• 7 mins

The Leeds witch who predicted the end of the world

The true story of "the Yorkshire Witch" Mary Bateman.

• 3 mins