North Yorkshire History

 I've just made a correction and added extra information to the entry on the Elands in People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Easby to Em...

Alice had lived through many changes in her long life – and the restoration of King Charles II in 1661 wasn't the last of the political ...

  East Newton Hall today  [By Roger Smith CC BY-SA 2.0] Alice made her home among her husband's people and remained at East Newton for t...

At Hipswell, 23 year old Christopher Wandesford was now head of the family.  He followed the custom of the time – there was a contract of ma...

By this time, Alice's brother George, now aged 28, was reaching success in his endeavours to recover his sequestered estates and find a ...

 In the early days of 1648 news would come to Hipswell of rebellions and fighting.  The Christmas riots were turning into rebellions, Royali...

On 14 June 1645, the New Model Army – Parliament's new national army – inflicted a decisive defeat on the Royalists at the Battle of Nas...