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Book They Came From    Yorkshire

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  • Author : J. A. Edmonds
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781902522678
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book They Came From Yorkshire written by J. A. Edmonds and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yankee Yorkshireman

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  • Author : Mary H. Blewett
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0252076133
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book The Yankee Yorkshireman written by Mary H. Blewett and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a textual and contextual appraisal of the writings of Yorkshire-born Hedley Smith (1909-94) whose depiction of the fictional mill village of Briardale, Rhode Island, captures an early twentieth-century labor diaspora peopled with textile workers. Enraged and embittered at the transformatory experience of his own emigration, Smith used fiction to explore Yorkshire immigrants' culture and stubborn refusal to assimilate, their vital sexuality, and their vivid social customs. As Smith's writings reveal, emigration involves grief and anger, often universally concealed and problematic. Adopting a transnational perspective, Mary H. Blewett links Smith's fictional community to empirical data on the substance of working-class lives both in Yorkshire and in New England's worsted textile industries.

Book James Herriot s Yorkshire Village

Download or read book James Herriot s Yorkshire Village written by Jane Reynolds and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the rolling dales of the countryside as well as the characters, shops, and storefronts of this quaint village of northern England.

Book James Herriot s Yorkshire Revisited

Download or read book James Herriot s Yorkshire Revisited written by James Herriot and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter 2000

Book The Yorkshire Pudding Club

Download or read book The Yorkshire Pudding Club written by Milly Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a heartwarming and uplifting story of how three women find themselves empowered by unexpected pregnancies 'Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like finding a pot of gold' heat Three South Yorkshire friends, all on the cusp of 40, fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen, it's a dream come true, although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped. Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past, Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes. For Janey, it is an unmitigated disaster as she has just been offered the career break of a life-time. And she has no idea either how it could possibly have happened, seeing as she and her ecstatic husband George were always so careful over contraception. For Elizabeth, it is mind-numbing, because she knows people like her shouldn't have children. Damaged by her dysfunctional childhood and emotionally lost, she not only has to contend with carrying a child she doubts she can ever love, but she also has to deal with the return to her life of a man whose love she must deny herself. Praise for Milly Johnson: 'A glorious, heartfelt novel' Rowan Coleman ‘Absolutely loved it. Milly's writing is like getting a big hug with just the right amount of bite underneath. I was rooting for Bonnie from the start' Jane Fallon ‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre’ Jill Mansell ‘Warm, optimistic and romantic’ Katie Fforde

Book Old Hand Knitters of the Dales

Download or read book Old Hand Knitters of the Dales written by Marie Hartley and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, expanded edition of the 1951 classic.

Book Road to the Dales

Download or read book Road to the Dales written by Gervase Phinn and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look into the childhood experiences of Gervase Phinn in Road to the Dales. Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This book is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s - reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal journey - of school days and holidays as well as his tentative steps into the adult world. Devour numerous uproarious stories including the incident involving a broken greenhouse, crashing his brother's newly restored bike as well as secrets about his first dates, adventures at summer camp, family trips to Blackpool and many other captivating tales. With a wicked ear for the comical, and a sharp eye for detail, Road to the Dales visits poignant moments, significant events and precious memories from a boy called Gervase Phinn. Gervase Phinn is an author and educator from Rotherham who, after teaching for fourteen years in a variety of schools, moved to North Yorkshire to be a school inspector. He has written autobiographies, novels, plays, collections of poetry and stories, as well as a number of books about education. He holds five fellowships, honorary doctorates from Hull, Leicester and Sheffield Hallam universities, and is a patron of a number of children's charities and organizations. He is married with four adult children. His books include The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale, Head Over Heels in the Dales,The Heart of the Dales, Up and Down in the Dales and Trouble at the Little Village School.

Book The Coffin Path

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  • Author : Katherine Clements
  • Publisher : Review
  • Release : 2018-02-08
  • ISBN : 1472204298
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Coffin Path written by Katherine Clements and published by Review. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown** An eerie and compelling ghost story set on the dark wilds of the Yorkshire moors. For fans of The Witchfinder's Sister and The Silent Companions, this gothic tale will weave its way into your imagination and chill you to the bone. 'Spine-tingling... the scariest ghost story I have read in a long time' Barbara Erskine 'A wonderful, macabre evocation of a lost way of life' The Times 'Like something from Emily Bronte's nightmares' Andrew Taylor, author of The Ashes of London Maybe you've heard tales about Scarcross Hall, the house on the old coffin path that winds from village to moor top. They say there's something up here, something evil. Mercy Booth isn't afraid. The moors and Scarcross are her home and lifeblood. But, beneath her certainty, small things are beginning to trouble her. Three ancient coins missing from her father's study, the shadowy figure out by the gatepost, an unshakeable sense that someone is watching. When a stranger appears seeking work, Mercy reluctantly takes him in. As their stories entwine, this man will change everything. She just can't see it yet. What readers are saying about The Coffin Path: 'A fantastic eerie ghost story to settle down with on a winters night' 'Compelling and chilling, the slow build-up of tension had me completely on edge' 'I couldn't put it down. I felt I was there on the moors, being watched by the unseen'

Book James Herriot s Yorkshire

Download or read book James Herriot s Yorkshire written by James Herriot and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1979 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yorkshire Witch

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  • Author : Summer Strevens
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2017-01-31
  • ISBN : 1473863899
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Yorkshire Witch written by Summer Strevens and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating tale of witchcraft and skulduggery in darkest Yorkshire in the early 19th century. . . . An extraordinary story, brilliantly told.” —Books Monthly On the morning of March 20, 1809, the woman who had earned herself the title of “The Yorkshire Witch” was hanged at York’s New Drop gallows before an estimated crowd of twenty thousand people—many of them victims of her hoaxes and extortion. A consummate con artist, Mary Bateman was adept at identifying the psychological weaknesses of the desperate and poor who populated the growing industrial metropolis of Leeds. Exploiting their fears and terror of witchcraft, Mary was well placed to rob them of their worldly goods, yet she did much more than cause misery and penury. Though tried and convicted of only one murder, the contemporary belief that she was a serial killer is doubtlessly accurate. A meticulously researched retelling of Mary Bateman’s life and death, and the macabre legacy of her mortal remains, The Yorkshire Witch is also a “wealth of social history . . . about the lives of servants; housing conditions . . . the rise in religious fervour . . . the prevalence of superstitious beliefs . . . accounts of early toxicology; how crimes were prosecuted; the treatment of female convicts; and public executions” (Crime Review).

Book Yorkshire

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  • Author : Richard Morris
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2018-01-25
  • ISBN : 0297609440
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Yorkshire written by Richard Morris and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the region's most extraordinary people and places.

Book Yorkshire s Flying Pickets in the 1984   85 Miners  Strike

Download or read book Yorkshire s Flying Pickets in the 1984 85 Miners Strike written by Brian Elliott and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Wilson's diary is an honest and action-packed account of what life was like for five young men on picket duty during the longest and most bitter industrial dispute in modern times: the 1984-85 miners' strike. Bruce and, younger brother Bob, along with mates Shaun, Darren and 'Captain' Bob crammed themselves into an old car or 'battlebus' and, despite police barriers and blockades, journeyed into Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and elsewhere in order to express their views and support their union in a country which they thought was free. We are able to experience at first-hand and day by day events, which were often frightening, occasionally humorous but never dull; and also gain insight into major conflicts at Orgreave, Brodsworth, Rossington and Maltby as well as at locations further afield. Towards the end of the strike our flying pickets found themselves on home ground, demonstrating at Silverwood and nearby collieries, including Cortonwood where many observers consider the great strike began. Any former striking miner will find the book compulsive reading and despite the passage of twenty years the journey will seem like yesterday. But there is a great deal for us all to appreciate from this remarkably frank and moving testimony.

Book Yorkshire s Three Peaks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Appleton
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2014-04-15
  • ISBN : 144563726X
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Yorkshire s Three Peaks written by Mike Appleton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey around this picturesque area and discover the real stories from inside the Dales

Book Yorkshire s War

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  • Author : Tim Lynch
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2014-09-15
  • ISBN : 1445634562
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Yorkshire s War written by Tim Lynch and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the experiences of the people of Yorkshire in the First World War in their own words, from prisoners of war to life on the Home Front

Book Riding Yorkshire s Final Steam

Download or read book Riding Yorkshire s Final Steam written by Keith Widdowson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Widdowson visited the North Eastern Region of British Railways on over forty occasions during the final eighteen months of steam powered passenger services. With the odd exceptions (usually for railtours) most of the locomotives were neglected, run down, filthy, prone to failure and often only kept their wheels turning courtesy of the skills of the crew coaxing them along with loving care. Far from the scenic delights so often justifiably portrayed of the Yorkshire countryside, the ever-dwindling numbers became corralled within the industrialized heartland of Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield and Normanton. Here, Widdowson recalls that bygone era, leading an almost nomadic nocturnal existence on his self-imposed “mission” of stalking the endangered “Iron Horses” in one of their final habitats. He was often far from alone in his quest. The “Haulage-bashing” fraternity comprised of like-minded enthusiasts from throughout Britain, often congregated, lemming like, on the one-coach early morning mail trains, the Summer Saturday holidaymaker trains or the Bradford portions; indeed any passenger service with a steam locomotive at its front From the many disappointments of thwarted possibilities to the euphoric joy of unexpected catches, together with over 130 contemporary images, Riding Yorkshire's Final Steam Trains is a compelling snapshot of the race against time at the end of the golden age of steam.

Book The Battle for Native Industry  The Debate Upon the Corn Laws  the Corn Importation and Customs Duties Bills  and the Other Financial Measures of the Government  in Session 1846  Reprinted by Permission  from    Hansard s Parliamentary Debates      Edited by A  S  O B   I e  Augustus Stafford O Brien  Afterwards Augustus Stafford

Download or read book The Battle for Native Industry The Debate Upon the Corn Laws the Corn Importation and Customs Duties Bills and the Other Financial Measures of the Government in Session 1846 Reprinted by Permission from Hansard s Parliamentary Debates Edited by A S O B I e Augustus Stafford O Brien Afterwards Augustus Stafford written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pearson s Magazine

Download or read book Pearson s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 49, no. 9 (Sept. 1922) accompanied by a separately paged section entitled ERA: electronic reactions of Abrams.