East Yorkshire local and family history

This week I went to the Carnegie Centre in West Park in Hull to give a talk to the East Yorkshire Family History Society. There was a good a...

It is Good Friday, the day when gardeners traditionally plant their potatoes. I have been outside today, wrapped up in woolly hat, gloves an...

I have been busy for the last two weeks writing a booklet about the Howden Council school. The school is celebrating its centenary with an e...

On Saturday 2nd March the Goole Rotary club are holding their annual hobbies exhibition in the Leisure Centre. It is always very popular and...

As regular readers of the blog will know I contribute a piece every month to a local magazine called Howden Matters. Some two months ago t...

I have been looking this week at Quaker history and specifically at some of our local families who emigrated in the late seventeenth centu...

I am busy with several history projects at the moment. With my Goole WEA class we are looking at the early history of Hook as well as trying...

Readers of the Goole Times may have noticed that I have begun contributing to the newspaper's very interesting 'Back in Time' p...

After writing about Yorkshire dialect I had a good response from local people who are also interested in the words we use. Pauline Stainto...

I have always enjoyed listening to those people I know who still use out local dialect quite naturally. And having been brought up in the ar...