North Yorkshire History

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...

Five years ago, on Thursday 21 February 2019, I published here the first of my pieces on the redoubtable and remarkable Mrs Annabel Dott, wo...

In the second half of the 19th century when Middlesbrough – Gladstone's "Infant Hercules" – boomed from a farmhouse to an impo...

Anyone researching the life of a commercial traveller in the early 19th century may be interested in letters now deposited at North Yorkshir...