William Allison. 1920. “My Kingdom for a Horse!”. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company.
Get it: All sources.- 6 December 1853: The Rev. Heslop of Forcett (Richmondshire) writes in the old style to his protégé John Pick Allison regarding the death of the latter’s uncle, and suspicions of legacy-hunting
- 31 March 1856: William Allison, a 4-year-old port-drinker, hears what he believes to be Russian gunfire while building sandcastles on Redcar beach
- 2 January 1863: William Allison (11) fails to shoot any rabbits at Coxwold
- 22 January 1863: Young William Allison sees Bob Gowland, Kilvington’s blacksmith, slaughter a pig while drunk
- 14 February 1863: William Allison (11) witnesses hare-coursing at Cundall
- 23 February 1863: The Rev Samuel Gray of Cundall tries to make school interesting for a nervous William Allison (12)
- 28 February 1863: William Allison (11) goes mouse-hunting with a fellow-pupil at Cundall (Ripon)
- 10 March 1863: William Allison (11) rides two miles on a donkey from Cundall to Brafferton to help celebrate the marriage of the future Edward VII to Alexandra of Denmark
- 16 June 1863: William Allison (12) travels from Coxwold to the circus at Easingwold, hoping to see Tom King, ‘The fighting sailor’
- 12 May 1865: John Pick Allison, a Thirsk solicitor, writes to comfort his 14-year-old son William at Rugby School
- 12 September 1865: An unexpected gesture from Richard Scurr, watchmaker, at the Thirsk burial of John Pick Allison, solicitor
- 12 August 1866: William Allison (15) goes grouse shooting for the first time, on Saltergate Moor (Pickering)
- 11 August 1875: The Whitby town crier’s unique act for the municipal dog show
- 30 June 1880: Tom Palliser, a Kilvington drunk, denies to a York court that a half crown received from Col. Dawnay, Conservative candidate for Thirsk, was an electoral bribe
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