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Credit: Maggie Bellwood, Rodley Nature Reserve

In 2012, Rodley Nature Reserve reintroduced harvest mice bred in captivity through a collaboration with Leeds City Council’s parks and green spaces service. Credit: Maggie Bellwood, Rodley Nature Reserve

A harvest mouse nest in Leeds. Credit: Ann Hanson, Yorkshire Mammal Group

Staff at Breary Marsh have changed how they care for the land, including going back to traditional scything instead of mowing. Credit: D L Preston

Harvest mice, Europe’s smallest rodent, have been found in Breary Marsh in Leeds after last having been recorded there in 1975. Credit: D. L Preston

Skelton Lake is one of the green spaces where biodiversity will be boosted, improving wildlife habitats for different species.

Killingbeck Fields is one of the green spaces where Leeds City Council is supporting investment to improve biodiversity.

Asket Hill was part of a successful pilot project funded by developers, which delivered improvements to local habitats including grasslands, woodlands and a wetland.

Among the outlandish outfits up for discussion will be the famous portrait of Child with Rattle, painted in 1611, which has been specially conserved for display in the exhibition. Depicting a boy of about two years old, just taking his first steps, the child was previously thought to be a girl but is now believed to be Henry Frederick Howard, the future third Earl of Arundel who was born in 1608.