North Yorkshire History

For those of you who are virtual rather than actual visitors to Hutton Rudby, this is a link to a set of beautiful photographs on flickr of...

In 1878 three young men of Hutton Rudby – two of them were the brothers John and Joseph Hutchinson of Toft Hill – conceived the idea of beau...

I've just amended the blogpost of 25 October 2012 on the Roman Catholic population of Hutton Rudby c1780 to 1830, as a keen-eyed reader ...

These notes were taken years ago, from a scrapbook that somebody lent me.  I think, as is often the way with newspaper clippings, they were ...

I've been working my way through my files and boxes of notes and I've got more to come, but I'll be posting it up less frequentl...

For lovers of the North Yorkshire coast: a couple of paintings by the Sadberge artist Jennifer Wyse. Across the footbridge, Staithes, b...

In 1840 John Buchannan was thirty years old, a widower with a little girl aged three.  His parents and his sister had died more than twenty ...