Curious Tales of Old East Yorkshire

Curious Tales of Old East Yorkshire
Author: Howard Peach
Publisher: Sigma Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781850587491

'Curious Tales of Old East Yorkshire' is a guide to the history, folklore, traditions & social institutions of the old East Riding, arranged in 14 diverse chapters. Anecdotes are included on events, personalities, buildings, customs & domestic matters.

Yorkshire Dales Walking

Yorkshire Dales Walking
Author: Norman Buckley
Publisher: Sigma Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1995
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781850584391

This book selects 32 of the best Dales walks and offers them with a wealth of interesting features encountered along the way. They are based on well-known towns and villages, mainly within those areas which are most popular and best loved.

Battlefield Walks in Yorkshire

Battlefield Walks in Yorkshire
Author: David Clark
Publisher: Sigma Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781850587750

Features 23 circular walks around the battlefields of Yorkshire, offering the opportunity to visit sites from the Battle of Heathfield in 633, through the War of the Roses and the English Civil War, to military airfields of the WWII. This book includes chapters that contain an account of each battle with information on access and facilities.

Tolkien and the Study of His Sources

Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Author: Jason Fisher
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-09-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786487283

Source criticism--analysis of a writer's source material--has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers' appreciation. This set of new essays by leading Tolkien scholars describes the theory and methodology for proper source criticism and provides practical demonstrations of the approach.

Digging in the Dark

Digging in the Dark
Author: Ben W. Johnson
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473878195

Progress can be unstoppable at times, and not even death can prevent the desire for knowledge. A dark trade has long existed to provide fuel for the fires of research, a trade which is viewed by many as the most despicable occupation of all.The resurrection men of Yorkshire came from all walks of life, and employed a myriad of macabre methods to raise their defenseless prey from beneath the consecrated ground. This was a trade which offered great reward, but was definitely not for the faint of heart.Throughout this journey into the dark past of Yorkshire, we meet an infamous celebrity who made an unexpected reappearance, a traveling minstrel who was to become the talk of many towns, a child whose death was just the beginning of a tragic tale, and a holy man who helped a community but earned his own illicit rewards in return.Also to be raised from the dead are a number of explosive events, all of which lit a fire beneath the local communities and led the people of Yorkshire to the streets in violent protest. A medical school reduced to ashes, a gang of professionals moonlighting in the darkest occupation, and a scandal which would engulf a city many years after the threat of the body snatchers had been all but ended.Spanning over almost three centuries, this grim compendium of tales casts a shadow over the beauty of Yorkshire, a dark veil which reaches out in all directions, threatening the peace of the dearly departed across the length and breadth of the nations largest county.

A progressive education?

A progressive education?
Author: Laura Tisdall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526132915

A Progressive Education? argues that ideas about both childhood and adolescence were transformed in English and Welsh schools after WWII. Covering the period 1918 to 1979, this book shows that by putting childhood at the centre of the history of education, we can challenge the stories we tell about how and why schooling itself changed. It has been suggested that the dominance of ‘progressive’ education after 1945 led to a backlash against permissive attitudes to pupils in both Western Europe and the United States. But British child-centred education, in alliance with developmental psychology, actually shaped a more restrictive and pessimistic image of childhood. Drawing on an extensive range of sources that illuminate teaching practice, from school logbooks to oral histories, this book will be crucial not only for historians and sociologists of modern Britain, but for education professionals and policy-makers.

Folklore of Yorkshire

Folklore of Yorkshire
Author: Kai Roberts
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0752489542

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in Britain, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of shared tradition, a characteristic body of folklore has thrived and endured well into the present day. Folklore of Yorkshire chronicles such beliefs throughout the whole county, identifying distinctive common themes, placing them in their historical context, and considering their social and psychological function. You’ll discover Yorkshire’s holy wells and buried treasure, its boggarts, Black Dogs and fairies, and the legends behind the county’s stunning landscape. This fully illustrated book shows how the customs of the past have influenced the ways of today, while also revealing something about the nature of folklore itself, both for the tradition-bearers and those who collect it.

James Herriot's Yorkshire

James Herriot's Yorkshire
Author: James Herriot
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312439712

A guide to the villages, towns, and countryside of the Yorkshire area of England.