East Yorkshire local and family history

Recently published is a fascinating booklet on the history of Holy Trinity church, East Cowick. Written by local historian Ken Sayner [for t...

I spent yesterday at the Local History bookfair at the Treasure House in Beverley. It is a popular annual event and I met many friends from ...

It has been a busy week for local history. On Wednesday I attended the Howden Civic Society awards evening. The room was full as Mike Smith ...

While researching material for my book on Howden I often become distracted and spend much longer than necessary following up ideas. One su...

It seems some time since I wrote a post and quite a lot seems to have been going on. On Sunday we spent some time in The Lowther hotel in ...

This has been a busy week for family history with visits to both the archives at Beverley and the Borthwick Institute at York. Whilst at B...

I am researching details for a book I am writing about Howden. It is some years since I wrote a history of Howden with Ken Powls. The book w...

Yesterday I visited the newly re-opened Goole library. I was particularly interested to see how the move of the local studies library downst...

Today has been a day of churchyard visits. I had been asked to take pictures of gravestones at both Snaith and Howden and travelled from one...

On Tuesday members of my WEA local history group went on their travels again. This time we went further afield and visited Foulbridge near ...