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The 17th Century Yorkshire Alehouse
Alcohol was an essential part of 17th Century life, and would be drunk as water was often too unclean to drink. Most homes would brew...
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The worlds to which historical fiction carries us may seem utterly different
...BUT THEY EXISTED
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- Apr 7, 2021
- 2 min
BBC's Sanchez Payne Interviews Author Paul Rushworth-Brown about his novel 'Skulduggery'
Sanchez Payne: Now what about this for a story. I feel like Bradford and surrounding areas they've got some really cool stories of...
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- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
Between the Covers Interview with Publisher - Bradley Shaw
Talking with author Paul Rushworth-Brown author of 'Skulduggery' to be released April 15 2021. Bradley: Good evening everybody, my name...
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- Mar 28, 2021
- 2 min
Paul Rushworth-Brown Radio 2RDJ-FM
Neil Lithgow from Radio 2RDJ-FM talks with Paul Rushworth-Brown about his soon to be released novel 'Skulduggery Neil Lithgow: We chat...
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- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
Skulduggery around Haworth and Keighley
AN author is drawing inspiration for his writings from his ancestry. Paul Rushworth-Brown has set his latest novel, Skulduggery, around...
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- Mar 20, 2021
- 8 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2020
- 3 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 20, 2020
- 3 min
An Australian Writer-Keighley Yorkshire Newspaper Article
AN AUSTRALIAN writer is drawing on his Haworth and Denholme ancestry as inspiration for his novels. Paul Rushworth-Brown has also used...
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- Dec 14, 2020
- 5 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, 2020
- 3 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, 2020
- 3 min
Rats, Rubbish and Hygiene in 17th Century Yorkshire
AS HUMAN BEINGS around the world change their daily behaviour to try to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, our absence is causing...
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- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 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, 2020
- 4 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, 2020
- 4 min
Haworth, Yorkshire: Would Tourists Really want to Step into Another Era?
Haworth, Yorkshire: Would Tourists Really want to Step into Another Era?
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- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween or Samhain-Gateway to the Underworld
With Halloween coming up on October 31st, I have been wandering what my Celtic forefathers would have thought about this Halloween affair.
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- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 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 29, 2020
- 2 min
Interview on America Tonight with Kate Delaney
Great conversation with Paul Rushworth Brown about his novel: Winter of Red. The research alone is incredible.
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