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Children Punished for Skulduggery Throughout the Ages
Corporal punishment is derived from a Latin word meaning body. It meant physical punishment and in the past, it was very common. Whipping...
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MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Featuring Australian novelist Paul Rushworth-Brown
MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Featuring Australian novelist PAUL RUSHWORTH BROWN. Find out how Paul went from history nerd to...
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Jul 13, 20223 min read
Author Paul Rushworth-Brown Features on Spillwords
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Apr 12, 20225 min read
Red Winter Journey: A captivating historical-masterpiece
Embark on a captivating journey through the breathtaking winter landscapes of 1642 England in the bestselling novel, "Red Winter...
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Apr 2, 20224 min read
A New Case of the Bubonic Plague
Ring a Ring o’ Roses, A Pocket full of Posies, A- Tishoo! A- Tishoo! We all Fall Down Health authorities in China have identified a new...
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Mar 26, 20224 min read
Children with Malice Hanged in Early England
Today, a small stone marker in the pavement is the only reminder that this was the site of London’s public hangings for nearly 600 years....
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Dec 27, 20215 min read
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 read
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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Mar 20, 20218 min read
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 read
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 10, 20213 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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, 20204 min read
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 read
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 read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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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