North Yorkshire History

The cliffside village of Runswick Bay  [Photograph by mattbuck, reproduced under  Creative Commons licence ]   Runswick (the 'w' in ...

In the 19th century, the usual yearly epidemics of frequently fatal infectious diseases in Britain were eclipsed by successive waves of a fr...

Listening to the news of the coronavirus, it seems timely to look back on another rapidly spreading disease – the pandemic of Asiatic Chole...

Dave Honneyman has just contacted me to say that the Joseph Honeyman of my last post (the seaman who died of cholera on board the brig Zeph...

York Herald, 4 November 1848 CASE OF CHOLERA, AND CAUTION TO DRUNKARDS On Tuesday last, an inquest was held before Mr John Settle, at t...

Perry's Bankrupt Gazette , 13 February 1830 Assignments To Trustees for the equal benefit of Creditors, pursuant to 6th Geo. IV. c...

This exchange of letters casts more light on the events of the Cholera Epidemic in Hutton Rudby in the autumn of 1832:  Mr Peacock uses Mr B...

After a time, however, legends began to gather round the episode.  The combination of a clergyman and a pestilence naturally brought echoes ...

The year 1832 was one of great political and social upheaval. The battle for the Reform Bill – witnessed close at hand by Lord Falkland, w...