Few biographical databases exist giving any information about the lives of ‘ordinary’ local leaders. Who Led Leeds? was a public engagement project that aimed to create a biographical collection at the Leeds Central Library, detailing the lives of Leeds city councillors who served between 1918 and 1939. This article describes the project and considers the extent to which the project was successful. It also reflects on how the creation of such archives using existing resources in local studies and family history libraries has the potential to expand and enrich the field of urban history.

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谁领导了利兹？战争之间的公共服务：通过合作建立传记图书馆

很少有传记数据库提供有关“普通”地方领导人生活的任何信息。谁领导了利兹？是一个公众参与项目，旨在在利兹中央图书馆创建一个传记收藏，详细介绍在 1918 年至 1939 年间任职的利兹市议员的生活。本文描述了该项目并考虑了该项目的成功程度。它还反映了利用当地研究和家族史图书馆的现有资源创建此类档案如何具有扩展和丰富城市历史领域的潜力。