North Yorkshire History

In the days when people were nervous of witches, and called on the wake-wailer to come each evening before a funeral to sing the lyke wake t...

In the 1990s Peter Meadows was working on an article on the subject of a lost Cleveland house called Angrove (also Anngrove or Ann-grove) Ha...

Katharine Hill (1905-2005) was very much of her time.  A young woman who grew up in a professional middle-class family and among the Teessid...

The connection between Hutton Rudby and the Bathursts began in the first half of the 17th century with the founder of the family fortunes, D...

I've only just caught up (two years late) with reading this excellent book on the  sinking of HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy  on 22 Septe...

This is an article from my blog The Engineering Hopkinsons .  It is set in Manchester and it's called  ' Henry Burnett & Fanny D...

Last year I began a new blog called ' The Engineering Hopkinsons '.   Alice Dewhurst of Skipton was the daughter of John Dewhurst of...