Issue 6 features: * Brought to court: Nell Darby begins a new series on courts and their records with a look at Quarter Sessions * Trade secrets: Explore the largest searchable collection of apprenticeship records online * The family killer: Paul Matthews on the ravages of typhus * Roots in many places: Your introductory guide to tracing roots in the Caribbean, by expert Guy Grannum * The skill of search: Maximise your online research techniques * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore the history of Leeds * Scourge of the seas: Britain’s history of piracy dates back to medieval times – and many pirates were leading figures * Break the brick walls: Wills after 1858 More Info
Product Code: DYAP006
Issue 23 features: * Lost and found: Sharon Brookshaw explores the history of child abandonment and the rise of foundling institutions * The Marine boys (and girls): Nell Darby on the history of a unique society which helps poor children find work at sea * Plotting the past: Tithe maps are coming online * A nation of gardeners: Margaret Powling digs into the history of gardening as a popular pastime * The First Fleeters: Laura Berry follows the experiences of people in the first penal colony to be founded in Australia * Before the trains came: Horse-drawn transport in Leeds * The great survey: Jill Morris delves into Griffith’s Valuation * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on wellies More Info
Product Code: DYAP023
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Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Batley, Pontefract, Keighley, Bingley, Saddleworth, Todmorden, Skipton, Otley, Holmfirth and the parishes and villages in and near to these Woollen and Worsted manufacturing districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire. An amazing number of names, addresses and historical information in this book of almost 1,600 pages. Useful for locating p...More Info
A book of splendid illustrations of the working men and women of Yorkshire in 1813 - 1814. The Author and Artist, George Walker, describes in his introduction - "most of the humble individuals here depicted in their simple and sometimes squalid garb" Many of the 41 hand-coloured aquatint engravings have become very famous in recent times, held to be accurate representations of the working people o...More Info
Indexes of Places and Surnames from the registers of Topcliffe Congregational Chapel and Morley Old Chapel with Inscriptions in the Old Chapel Graveyard. (Please note: This Topcliffe is near Leeds, in the West Riding - not to be confused with Topcliffe, near Thirsk in the North Riding)
Including Alnwick, Bradford, Doncaster, Durham, Goole, Halifax, Harrogate, Hexham, Hull, Huddersfield, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Morpeth, Newcastle, Scarborough, Settle, Sheffield, South Shields, Wakefield, Whitby, York and many more Towns and Villages.
Classified lists of the nobility, gentry and clergy; merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders. Includes historical and descriptive sketches of each county, city, town and village; an account of every mode of transport, by rail, road and water, the postal regulations of each place, alist of the bankers of the United Kingdom, with their branches, and a variety of miscell...More Info