Also on display is a dress created as part of theatre show and exhibition Corseted, about radical Leeds suffragist Alice Cliff Scatcherd.
The dress sits alongside objects chosen by writer and performer, Becky Cherriman, who writes about women’s history and industrial working conditions.
Ariadne author, Saint, chose an ancient Greek coin featuring a fearsome snake-headed Gorgon for the exhibition, while author Chris Nickson chose a model of the Moot Hall, formerly on Briggate.
The hall features in his novel Them Without Pain, which explores the story of ill-fated Leeds silversmith Arthur Mangey.
Mangey created the Leeds Mace but was executed in 1696 after he was found guilty of forgery.
Finds from nearby Kirkstall Abbey are featured, including a series of Cistercian floor tiles and a stylus, which is the subject of a poem by Claire Wigzell.
Library tickets, ink pots, writing implements and a typewriter used by Yorkshire Post sports journalist John Wyatt are also on display.