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Keelhaulung-Pirate Punishment: Facing Fear Head On
Keelhauling was “a severe punishment whereby the condemned man was dragged beneath the ship’s keel on a rope.
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Apr 12, 20225 min
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Embark on a captivating journey through the breathtaking winter landscapes of 1642 England in the bestselling novel, "Red Winter...
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Children with Malice Hanged in Early England
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Dec 27, 20215 min
English Constables, Peasants and Clodhoppers
In the 17th century people living on the fringe of the Celtic fringe were often thought of as being barbarians or savages. If the lower,...
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Jun 12, 20215 min
The 17th Century Yorkshire Alehouse
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Mar 20, 20218 min
Chastity Belt Myth or Madness?
Stories of the chastity belt date back to the Middle Ages; however, their use has come under some scrutiny in recent times.
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Mar 16, 20214 min
Discovered Among the Human Excrement, Corpses of Unwanted Infants. WHAT?
The word ‘gong’ is derived from the old English, gang, which means ‘to go’ and seems to have been used to describe a privy or latrine...
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Jan 21, 20213 min
Children of a Workhouse
At the beginning of the eighteenth-century workhouses like the one in Bradford, Yorkshire were set up mainly to cater for the adult and...
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Jan 10, 20213 min
17th Century Almshouses Catered for the Crippled, Sick and Insane
Long before social housing became a responsibility of the state, it was almshouses that provided a home for the most vulnerable members...
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Dec 29, 20203 min
A Yorkshire Hanging- Execution Day was a Big, Rowdy Event
In 17th Century Yorkshire, there were over two hundred capital offences that could lead to the death sentence, many of them no more than...
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Dec 14, 20205 min
Dinner with the Rushworths – Yorkshire 1590
If you were invited to the Rushworth cottage for dinner or 'cena' at 6:00 pm you would have been asked to sit at the hearth of the fire...
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Dec 6, 20203 min
The Yorkshire Thief-taker-Criminal or Cop?
With the increase of import and export out of Hull and Leeds and the immigration of the rural poor to urban centres, there were more...
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Nov 6, 20203 min
Rats, Rubbish and Hygiene in 17th Century Yorkshire
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Oct 29, 20204 min
17th Century Yorkshire: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
In Yorkshire in the 17th Century, dealing with local crime and punishment was the responsibility of the constable or sheriff, a position...
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Oct 23, 20204 min
Peasant Sex and Marriage in 17th Century Yorkshire
The idea of young women being thrown into a marriage with a much older man, that they did not care for, was a myth created by historians.
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Oct 18, 20204 min
Haworth, Yorkshire: Would Tourists Really want to Step into Another Era?
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Oct 14, 20203 min
Halloween or Samhain-Gateway to the Underworld
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Oct 7, 20203 min
Ursula Sontheil, the Yorkshire Witch
Witchcraft and consequential witch hunting were at the time, a fact of life in England and the two thousand legal proceedings...
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Sep 25, 20204 min
Witchcraft in 17th Century Yorkshire
Of all the witch trials in York, Isabella Billington in 1648 was the only state sanctioned witch to be burnt at the stake in Yorkshire...
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