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    • Medieval Tales of Revenge and The Elland Feud
    • Early Cartography and How Ossett-born Christopher Saxton Mapped the Counties
    • Wars of the Roses
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    • West Yorkshire in the First English Civil War
    • First Civil War Battles in West Yorkshire 1642
    • First English Civil War Events in 1643
    • Civil War Years 1644-48
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    • The Farnley Wood Plot
  • The Wool Trade
    • The Rise of the West Yorkshire Wool Trade
    • Expansion of the Wool Trade – 16th Century Onwards
    • Cloth Market and Cloth Halls
    • Shoddy and Mungo
  • Yorkshire Coal
    • History of Coal Mining in Yorkshire
    • The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893
    • Fishers of Briestfield – Coal Miners
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    • Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793
    • Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS – a Personal View of a Remarkable Man
    • The Bradford Arsenic Poisonings
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    • Almondbury
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    • Dewsbury’s Victorian Town Hall
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      • John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
      • John Archer the Elder, Ossett,1757
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      • Thomas Sheard of Ovenden 1565
      • Michael Sheard Parish Clerk of Mirfield 23 June 1632
      • Thomas Sheard of Mirfield (1620-1671) Family and Will
    • Hemyngwaye of Southowram Halifax – will extracts
    • Will of William Land, Yeoman, of Horbury 1575-1647
  • Old Maps
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    • West Yorkshire 1775 Map Extracts
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    • Map Extracts Earlsheaton and Chickenley 1892-1906
    • Map Extracts Mirfield and Lower Hopton 1890s
    • Maps Dewsbury
  • Social History
    • Are You Mad?
    • Child Labour and the Atkinson’s Mill Fire 14th February 1818
    • Misdemeanour, Felony and Bankruptcy
    • Hemingway
      • Hemingway of the Walterclough Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
      • John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
    • Archer/Wilson
      • Tracing the Archers of Earlsheaton, Chickenley and Ossett
      • A Case of Industrial Espionage?
      • George Archer and the Bantams
      • George Archer at Passchendaele
      • Harold Archer in the 15th Scottish Division RASC in WW2
      • On Education
      • Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
    • Sheard/Bottom
      • 16th Century Woolman – Thomas Sheard of Ovenden
      • Martha Arnold of Woolwich and Mirfield – a possible Luddite link?
      • Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom
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  • Who do you think you are?
  • Ancient & Medieval
    • Ancient People: Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes
    • Christianity comes to Northumbria
    • Medieval Yorkshire
    • Plague in West Yorkshire
    • The Grey Apple Tree (Script for a Battle of Hastings 1066 AV)
    • Medieval Archery
    • Medieval Tales of Revenge and The Elland Feud
    • Early Cartography and How Ossett-born Christopher Saxton Mapped the Counties
    • Wars of the Roses
  • The English Civil Wars
    • West Yorkshire in the First English Civil War
    • First Civil War Battles in West Yorkshire 1642
    • First English Civil War Events in 1643
    • Civil War Years 1644-48
    • Aftermath of the Civil War
    • The Farnley Wood Plot
  • The Wool Trade
    • The Rise of the West Yorkshire Wool Trade
    • Expansion of the Wool Trade – 16th Century Onwards
    • Cloth Market and Cloth Halls
    • Shoddy and Mungo
  • Yorkshire Coal
    • History of Coal Mining in Yorkshire
    • The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893
    • Fishers of Briestfield – Coal Miners
  • Images
    • Living History Photographs
    • Historic Photographs of Earlsheaton
    • Historic Photographs of Mirfield
    • Historic Photographs and Memories of Dewsbury
    • Photographs of Dewsbury
  • People
    • Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793
    • Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS – a Personal View of a Remarkable Man
    • The Bradford Arsenic Poisonings
    • The Fozzards
  • Places
    • Almondbury
    • Dewsbury
    • Dewsbury’s Victorian Town Hall
    • Earlsheaton History and Family Connections
    • Halifax
    • Kirkheaton
    • Mirfield
    • Ossett
    • Thornhill
    • Upper Hopton
    • Wakefield
  • Wills
    • Archer
      • John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
      • John Archer the Elder, Ossett,1757
    • Sheard
      • Thomas Sheard of Ovenden 1565
      • Michael Sheard Parish Clerk of Mirfield 23 June 1632
      • Thomas Sheard of Mirfield (1620-1671) Family and Will
    • Hemyngwaye of Southowram Halifax – will extracts
    • Will of William Land, Yeoman, of Horbury 1575-1647
  • Old Maps
    • West Yorkshire Map and “Kirklees Cousins” family origins
    • West Yorkshire 1775 Map Extracts
    • Maps West Yorkshire Heavy Woollen District 1841, 1903
    • Map Extracts Earlsheaton and Chickenley 1892-1906
    • Map Extracts Mirfield and Lower Hopton 1890s
    • Maps Dewsbury
  • Social History
    • Are You Mad?
    • Child Labour and the Atkinson’s Mill Fire 14th February 1818
    • Misdemeanour, Felony and Bankruptcy
    • Hemingway
      • Hemingway of the Walterclough Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
      • John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
    • Archer/Wilson
      • Tracing the Archers of Earlsheaton, Chickenley and Ossett
      • A Case of Industrial Espionage?
      • George Archer and the Bantams
      • George Archer at Passchendaele
      • Harold Archer in the 15th Scottish Division RASC in WW2
      • On Education
      • Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
    • Sheard/Bottom
      • 16th Century Woolman – Thomas Sheard of Ovenden
      • Martha Arnold of Woolwich and Mirfield – a possible Luddite link?
      • Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom
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Archive, Family Stories

George Archer and the Bantams

George Archer's experience as a soldier in a Bantam Battalion.

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February 13, 2014
Family Stories, History

Medieval Archery

The origin of the Archer name and the the first known Archer family of Dewsbury.

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February 23, 2018
Family Stories

Richard Wilson’s Long Walk

Richard Wilson of Ossett's long walk to sell his woollen cloth at Leeds Cloth Market.

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February 28, 2018
Family Stories

Tragic Fire at Atkinson’s Mill, Colne Bridge…Subsequent Factories Acts

Account of a tragic mill fire in a cotton mill, that shook the nation and contributed to the first change in the law in the employment of children.

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March 2, 2018
Archive, Family Stories

16th Century Woolman – Thomas Sheard of Ovenden

History of the Sheards of the West Riding. Will of Thomas Sheard of Ovenden. Wool trade in 16th Century Halifax.

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February 17, 2014
Plague in West Yorkshire
Plague in West Yorkshire
Misdemeanour, Felony & Bankruptcy
Misdemeanour, Felony & Bankruptcy
Are you mad?
Are you mad?
  • Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793

    December 3, 2020 /

    The story of John Michell, Rector of Thornhill Parish Church near Dewsbury, who was a member of the Royal Society, and who entertained some of the world's most eminent scientists of the18th century at his Rectory. He published ideas in astronomy that were 200 years before his their time and is one of the greatest unsung scientists of his age.

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    The historic village of Thornhill, near Dewsbury, is situated on a hill on the south side of the River Calder. It’s an important historic site and an area called “The Combs” was named by the ancient Celts, who inhabited the region. Thornhill was mentioned in the Domesday Book and, in the 19th century, it was where many of the author’s ancestors still lived and worked, as miners and quarrymen. Combs Colliery was one of several pits in the area owned by Edward Theodore Ingham, a member of the local gentry who lived at Blake Hall, Mirfield. Of his other pits, Hostingley had closed in 1880 and Ings, situated on adjacent…

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    A Dewsbury born mathematician and computer scientist, who was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance, including the first stored-memory computer, the “Baby”, over the course of a 30-year career. Includes interviews with his pre-war friend and fellow footballer, who happened to be the author’s father. Early years I grew up knowing about Tom Kilburn. He was born at 111 Town Street, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, on 11th August 1921, just round the corner from where I was brought up. Tom’s father was a clerk at Mark Oldroyd’s woollen mill and later became Company Secretary. An intelligent boy, Tom was educated at the Wheelwright Boys Grammar School (WBGS),…

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