Willie Riley - His Life and Archive

Name: Willie Riley - His Life and Archive
Start: 2025-07-13T14:00+0100
End: 2025-07-13T15:30+0100
Location: University of Bradford Union of Students (UBU)

Date and time: Sunday 13 July 2025, 14:00 BST to 15:30 BST
Attendance and participation: This is an in-person event.

Black and white photo of Willie Riley sat at a writing desk

About

Free event
Room 0.17, JSB Library.

Join us to hear Willie Riley expert, David Copeland, discuss how he discovered this wonderful archive collection.

Learn about Willie Riley, who started out working in the family’s local Stuff business, eventually becoming Managing Director of the Riley Brothers Optical Lantern Company, and then became an author of over 30 novels including ‘Windyridge’.

Delve into his amazing archive of manuscripts, lecture notes, correspondence, notebooks, photographs and much more.