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Owen Madden: Profile – The Leeds Born Criminal Who Joined New York Underworld
The Leeds-born criminal who became a ruthless member of the New York underworld Although Leeds can pride itself on being ... -
Ellen Heaton – Women’s Rights Campaigner from Leeds
Ellen Heaton (1816–94) was an active campaigner for women’s rights and other philanthropic causes, including anti-vivisection, the environment and education. ... -
Mary Bateman – The Yorkshire Witch
By Summer Strevens The story of Mary Bateman, known as The Yorkshire Witch, or The Leeds Witch is well-known and ... -
Best Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Yorkshire
Highlighting the remarkable Roman objects found in the region by Amy Downes and Rebecca Griffiths Yorkshire was part of the ... -
The Story of Titus Salt and Saltaire
Salts Mill in Saltaire, Bradford is an iconic Yorkshire building. Built by businessman and philanthropist Sir Titus Salt it has ... -
The Victoria Quarter, Leeds – History and Profile
The Knightsbridge of the North The Beatles once played there, top stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Gracie Fields have ... -
Historic Leeds Pubs
Paul Chrystal’s book ‘Central Leeds Through Time’ (Amberley Publishing, 2016, £14.99) charts Leeds’s evolution through a collection of captivating photographs. ... -
Haunted York – A Journey Through York’s Criminal Haunts
Author Summer Strevens investigates York’s murderous and supernatural history… Serving a Spectral Sentence… It is said that powerful or traumatic ... -
A Brief History of Bradford
By Alan Hall One of the problems that confronts me as the author of Bradford in 100 Dates is knowing what ... -
Mary Tuke – The Mother of York’s Chocolate Industry
By Summer Strevens If we are to examine the true circumstances surrounding the ‘birth’ of York as ‘Chocolate City’ we ... -
Yorkshire’s Cistercian Abbeys & The Wandering White Monks of Yorkshire
By Richard Smyth Life is seldom comfortable when you’re a monk. Lots of praying, lots of work, not much in ... -
Jowett Motor Company, Bradford – The History of a Car Cult
By Paul Chrystal The Jowett Motor Company was a prestigious motor car company operating from Bradford from 1901 to 1954, ...