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Saturday, 30 September 2017

The murder of James Lyall in Venezuela, 1900

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A sad and mysterious story: Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough 31 March 1900 The Assassination of a Darlington Man in Venezuela Mr E W...
Wednesday, 20 September 2017

William Hall Burnett (1840-1916)

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Here is a new website about William Hall Burnett, journalist & editor, newspaper proprietor & poet. He was born in Stokesley in 1...
Saturday, 9 September 2017

Kendal & Flintoff marriage announcement 1805

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I know there are readers out there looking for Flintoffs:- Leeds Intelligencer, 9 September 1805 On Monday was married, Mr R Kendal, o...
Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Thomas Wayne of Angrove Hall

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York Herald, 15 August 1801 GAME WHEREAS the GAME within the Manors of HIGH WORSALL, HUTTON near RUDBY, AND KIRBY, belonging to THOMAS ...
Monday, 31 July 2017

North Riding dialect

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I came across the website of the Yorkshire Dialect Society recently and their  page of recordings of dialect readers and raconteurs . I ...
Thursday, 20 July 2017

Miss Margaret Clarke (1833-97), "highly-respected Northern educationist"

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Margaret Clarke belonged to the generation of pioneers in women’s education. She was born in 1833 in the parsonage in Wolviston, Co Durham,...
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Thursday, 6 July 2017

Samuel and Louis, artists & brothers

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This isn’t actually to do with North Yorkshire, but I have the information and I feel I must do something with it! It is the story of two ...