Entries
Most recent additions first.
- 10 October 1760: The road surface between Yarm to Guisborough; freight transport in the north
- 14 May 1760: Bishop Pococke finds Richmondshire’s Kirklevington shorthorns in better condition than its fish and farmers
- 13 May 1760: Bishop Richard Pococke talks to a local farmer about the Swale-side remains of the Roman fort of Cataractonium on the Great North Road
- 15 June 1635: The administration of warrants by the Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby, “the best JP in the land”
- 13 June 1635: A Puritan talks to the gardener at York of the notorious miser and swindler, Sir Arthur Ingram
- 12 June 1635: A prominent Puritan finds poor buildings but good beer for Archbishop Richard Neile at Bishopthorpe Palace (York)
- 4 December 1841: The York Herald tells of an almost omnivorous sheep
- 27 April 1703: Ralph Thoresby of Leeds sends a list of “local” dialect words to the naturalist and linguist John Ray
- 3 April 1852: Brickfield workers from Wortley (Leeds) bring Henry Denny, curator of the Leeds Museum, some huge “unchristian” bones
- 20 March 1852: Sam Hyam, gents’ outfitter of Briggate, Leeds, markets his spring collection to poetry-lovers
RSS feed
Bluesky
Extwitter