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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...
Mar 28, 20212 min read
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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...
Mar 28, 20213 min read
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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...
Mar 16, 20214 min read
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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...
Jan 10, 20213 min read
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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...
Dec 29, 20203 min read
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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...
Sep 25, 20204 min read
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To Hell, Hull or Halifax-The Halifax Gibbet was an early Guillotine
The Halifax Gibbet plays a small part in my new novel 'Dream of Courage' but not the way you might imagine...
Sep 19, 20204 min read
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