The style of the clothes that we wear is constantly changing. What once was the height of fashion is soon last year’s trash and it’s on to the next big thing.
Tracing your family history is a popular and fascinating past time, but it can be difficult to know where to start. East Riding Archives are launching a new and expanded 10 week family history course
Ever since Guy Fawkes and the infamous Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, we have been fascinated with putting on a show of fireworks each time we have a bonfire on 5th November.
Thousands of people are signing up this month to national campaigns designed to encourage us to reduce or stop our drinking and smoking habits.
Over two centuries ago, the East Riding played host to one of the groundbreaking events that helped advance the study of astronomy and even our understanding of the universe itself.
In the centre and soul of many an English town is its market. So-called ‘market towns’ can be located throughout the length and breadth of the nation and none more so compared to East Yorkshire, in which the market continues to be central towards the growth of its towns.
It will be much easier to find out about local history books and articles at Beverley’s Treasure House now as a result of work by the East Riding archives and local studies service. A huge number of books and journal articles can now be searched online.
Tracing your family history is a very popular and fascinating activity – but sometimes it can be difficult to understand how to start. The family history courses run at the Beverley Treasure House are an excellent way to get started in your new hobby or develop your knowledge.
War. Whenever it looms the country feels safe in the knowledge that the armed forces will step up to the plate and ensure safety. But around 220 years ago, it wasn’t quite as simple as that.
How many of us have ever received a love letter? The chances are that most of us have never had a handwritten piece of affection posted through our doors, not because we’re unloved
The work of tracing family trees in Yorkshire is about to get a lot easier. A partnership has been launched which means that Yorkshire’s parish registers will be available on-line in the not too distant future.
For many, the local area and its heritage are a great source of pride and it is both a privilege and a joy to be able to visit museums and archives to see first-hand the objects that compose local history.
Weddings are an expensive business, whichever way they are looked at, and very often the burden of the cost is shouldered in the large part by the proud parents of the bride and groom.
The annual Local and Family History Bookfair will be held in the Treasure House, in Beverley, on Saturday, 20 October. The bookfair is hosted by the East Riding Archives and Local Studies Service and is now in its 26th year
For those currently putting themselves through the regime of a grueling weight-loss diet, spare a thought for those who used to live at Hedon Workhouse during the 1830s, who were put through a diet of gruel.
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration will take place this year on an extended weekend from 2-5 June. Queen Victoria is the only other British monarch to have achieved this milestone, back in 1897
Tracing family history is a very popular and fascinating past time, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. The family history courses run at the Beverley Treasure House
During the Second World War, every man, woman and child in the country did their bit to keep Adolf Hitler’s armies from invading mainland Britain,
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