I had not been to Cliffe Castle Museum for over a decade, but after a hospital appointment in Keighley at the weekend and with no further pl

Everyone seems to have heard about Boudicea, the warrior queen who led her army against the Romans. But very few people have heard about...

As a former Leeds student, I spent many a happy hour in the Oak and the Skyrack in Headingley. Now visits are restricted to a few pints...

Public torture and execution was pretty common during the medieval period. Beheadings were often carried out in public and in England...

Playing a significant role in the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War, Sir Thomas Fairfax is still far less well known than...

With an hour to kill before my guests were to board the North York Railway in Pickering for a trip to Whitby on the heritage railway I...

Hidden away behind York’s library and just outside Museum Gardens is a real historical treasure which I discovered thanks to the author...

After visiting a friend in Barwick in Elmet, I remembered years ago he’d mentioned the remains of a motte bailey castle behind the local...

A small unassuming brick built building dating from the 1600’s, situated just off the road between Addingham and Bolton Abbey has found...

As a fan of the gentle BBC TV comedy series The Detectorists with Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones playing Andy and Lance, two hapless...