(2021). Essay Prize Announcement. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Correction. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England. Essays in Honour of William Mark Ormrod. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

This article is a study of lordship, conflict and some very unpleasant people, based on the record of a shocking crime presented at the 1293/4 Yorkshire eyre ‒ the murder of four members of the Mowbray family of Little Busby on the orders of a local magnate, Sir Nicholas Meynil of Whorlton. A fortunate wealth of sources, mainly in the form of court records, illuminates both the personalities involved

The discussion is focused on changes in the structure of the cotton industry and their effects on social and political life in Carlisle in the years from 1838 to 1861. The geographic framework of these changes is sketched out by investigating the interdependencies between factory locations in the city and the spatial formation of degraded working-class suburbs. Carlisle’s cotton industry was marked

(2021). Editorial. Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 1-1.

(2021). Gordon Forster Essay Prize. Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 2-2.

(2021). Business and Family in the North of England during the Early Industrial Revolution: Records of The Lives of Men and Women in Trade, 1788–1832. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

The defeat in July 1469 of forces loyal to the king, Edward IV, by an army of Yorkshire rebels led by someone who called himself Robin of Redesdale produced a second outbreak of civil war less than a decade after the first had brought King Edward to the throne and in due course almost unseating him. Although several historians have seen a connection between this rebellion and a slightly earlier one

This paper uses a multi-disciplinary approach to re-examine the early history of Leeds as a settlement, from the late Antique period through to the Norman Conquest. Historians of the period have tended to be more comfortable in describing Leeds as a region, but a combination of recent archaeological and linguistic developments, as well as the use of modern data extraction and GIS software, are used

(2021). EDWARD ROYLE (ed), POWER IN THE LAND: THE RAMSDENS AND THEIR HUDDERSFIELD ESTATE, 1542-1920. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

(2021). MUSIC IN North-EAST England 1500 –1800. Music IN BRITAIN, 1600–2000. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

(2021). SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LANCASHIRE RESTORED: THE LIFE AND WORK OF Dr RICHARD KUERDEN, ANTIQUARY AND TOPOGRAPHER, 1623–1702. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Occasional Papers; Post-Reformation Catholic History. Northern History. Ahead of Print.

This article looks at a long running controversy over ritual that happened at Manchester Cathedral at the end of the Victorian era. In doing so it advances the historiography by looking at anti-ritualism in both a Northern and a cathedral context. Manchester was a low church diocese that spawned many ‘Protestant’ elements who sought to use the unique governance structures of the cathedral to attack

By the early twentieth century north-east England had become one of the heartlands of soccer, and its regional rugby union clubs were losing support. But from 1895 to 1914, following the emergence of a new rugby organisation, ‘Northern Union’ (later known as ‘rugby league’) in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire and Cumbria, rugby union clubs in Durham and Northumberland faced further difficulties. This

(2021). JANE HATCHER, Timothy Hutton (1779–1863) of Clifton Castle and Marske-in-Swaledale: The Life and Times of a North Yorkshire Gentleman. Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 158-159.

(2021). JOAN BRIGGS, JOHN SMITH, ANN TUMMAN, JENNIFER TINDALL AND XENIA WEBSTER (eds) Sunderland Wills and Inventories, 1651–1675: Volume 224 of Publications of the Surtees Society. Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 156-158.

Early-nineteenth century traders, manufacturers and retailers are often depicted as inhabiting a world where approval, trust and reputation mattered. Positive engagements with customers, fellow business-people and with the wider community were all, apparently, important. This has been made most obvious in the literature in relation to clients whereby shop-keepers eager to please an increasingly affluent

(2021). PHYLLIS HILL and PAUL BOOTH, Chester County Court Indictment Roll 1354-1377: Dealing with Serious Crime in Later Fourteenth-Century Cheshire. Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 153-155.

(2020). Essay Prize Announcement. Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 175-175.

(2020). Gordon Forster Essay Prize. Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 176-176.

The beginning of Queen Anne’s reign saw an intense struggle between High Church Tories and the Whiggish Williamite bishops over issues involving the power of Convocation and the practice of occasional conformity. The battles raged in both Convocation and Parliament. While the mêlée took place primarily on the national level, skirmishes broke out locally as well. This article focuses on one such series

A recently recovered medieval source reveals how the twelfth-century bishops of Durham entirely restructured their East Riding lordship based on Howden by a campaign of wetland drainage and adroit exploitation of the land market, and does so in an amount of detail unknown elsewhere in Europe for the period.

In January 1643, a dispute over the election of the Lord Mayor of York led to the assertation of the authority of the Royalist military governor through armed force at the instigation of the King’s Lord-General in the North, the Earl of Newcastle. This paper takes a micro-historical approach to this event; analysing the mechanics of the coup, particularly the exchange of letters between the civic corporation

A recently recovered medieval source reveals how the twelfth-century bishops of Durham entirely restructured their East Riding lordship based on Howden by a campaign of wetland drainage and adroit exploitation of the land market, and does so in an amount of detail unknown elsewhere in Europe for the period.

In January 1643, a dispute over the election of the Lord Mayor of York led to the assertation of the authority of the Royalist military governor through armed force at the instigation of the King’s Lord-General in the North, the Earl of Newcastle. This paper takes a micro-historical approach to this event; analysing the mechanics of the coup, particularly the exchange of letters between the civic corporation

The beginning of Queen Anne’s reign saw an intense struggle between High Church Tories and the Whiggish Williamite bishops over issues involving the power of Convocation and the practice of occasional conformity. The battles raged in both Convocation and Parliament. While the mêlée took place primarily on the national level, skirmishes broke out locally as well. This article focuses on one such series

This article explores the employment and adaptation of imperial ideas and imagery in the civic performance and presentation of Hull, the East Yorkshire port city, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing, in particular, on the opening ceremony of a new dock in June 1914 - organised around the procession of King George V and the Queen-consort Mary - the article contests that

(2021). A.J. POLLARD, A Perfect Paradise Eryholme From 1066 to The Present (Fonthill Media on behalf of Eryholme Parish Council 2019) Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 151-153.

(2021). MICHAEL SPENCE, The Late Medieval Monastery of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire. Monastic Administration, Economy and Archival Memory. Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 155-156.

(2021). BRYAN BIGGS and JOHN BELCHEM, Eds., Bluecoat, Liverpool: The UK’s First Arts Centre. Northern History: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 160-161.

(2020). Gareth Williams (ed.), A Riverine Site Near York: A Possible Viking Camp? Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 336-337.

The Leeds Mercury and The Leeds Intelligencer are newspaper sources well known to historians studying the political, labour or provincial history of nineteenth-century Britain. In 1833, the whig-liberal Mercury and the tory-radical Intelligencer clashed over parliamentary efforts to introduce new factory regulations for children, and their rivalry has been much commented on, but so far unexamined.

This article explores the way in which leading Yorkshire newspapers, the Leeds Intelligencer and the Leeds Mercury, portrayed mental illness during the late Georgian era. In this period, newspapers were a central forum of public debate, yet a comprehensive analysis of the way they represented mental illness is lacking from the scholarship. Through the textual analysis of the newspaper miscellanies

If we wish to test the strength of the Catholic spirit in the industrial Diocese of late Victorian early Edwardian West Riding of Yorkshire, we should first consider what types of institutions and societies existed among them. Thus, wherever the spirit of Catholicism flourished in the hearts of the laity, it should manifest itself in the Church’s different confraternities, guilds and societies. These

The newspaper globally known as the Guardian began its life in Manchester as the Manchester Guardian. This paper examines the reactions of readers of the newspaper in the context of the decision to remove the word ‘Manchester’ from the its title in 1959. It uses 251 letters on the subject sent to the newspaper to assess the usefulness of Anthony Cohen’s idea of readers as a symbolic community. This

This article reviews the existing literature about the Shotley Bridge swordmaker, Hermann Mohll, who was imprisoned in Morpeth Gaol in December 1703. It provides new information that addresses some long-standing questions: why was Mohll acquitted; what happened to the smuggled swords; was Mohll supplying arms to the Jacobites?

(2020). Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis and Anwen Caffell, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 343-344.

(2020). Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century. Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 341-343.

(2020). DAVID BATES, William the Conqueror. Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 337-339.

(2020). A Paston Letter of 1461 and ‘Coroumbr’, Yorkshire: the Flight of Henry VI After Towton. Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 331-333.

In January 1935, Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston, announced that he intended to stand in a by-election in what was considered the safe Tory seat of Liverpool Wavertree. Churchill, however, was not the official Conservative Party candidate: he was an ‘Independent Conservative’ standing on a platform of opposition to the Government of India Bill and the need for a larger air force. His campaign

This book is a joy, learned, insightful and witty. Roger Tomlin has long been a principal contributor to the ‘Inscriptions’ section in the journal Britannia, reviewing inscriptions recovered from R...

(2020). A History of the County of York: East Riding Volume X: Part 1: Howdenshire: The Townships. Northern History: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 339-341.

Historians of the early modern period have not sufficiently considered the variety of local heritable jurisdictions that continued from the middle ages into the nineteenth century. The central roles of these jurisdictions and their courts in local government, law-enforcement and civil litigation have thus been overlooked. This study first describes the extent of the major liberties in the West Riding

Although there may have been contacts between Southwell and York from the seventh century onwards, it was a royal grant to Archbishop Oscytel in 956 AD that formalised the relationship and led to the creation within the archbishopric of the Peculiar of Southwell. This centred on an impressive minster church, described by A. Hamilton Thompson as ‘the greatest of all the medieval collegiate foundations

This is an important book. It describes and evaluates a category of sources that has not hitherto been taken as seriously as it deserves, and it shows how these can add to our knowledge of some key themes and problems of the later middle ages. The volume shows their potential and provides signposts to the sources themselves and to the methods which can be used to analyse and illuminate them. Collectively

This paper summarises significant events in the life of Francis Edward Joseph Strickland from his birth in 1691 at the exiled Stuart Court in Saint-Germain-en-Leye, near Paris, to his death in Carlisle during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. Emphasis is placed on his various roles in the Stuart court and his involvement in the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite rebellions, including his malign influence on Bonnie

The domination of the economy of Newcastle upon Tyne by the coal industry during the seventeenth- and eighteenth - centuries is well known. Many ships arriving to collect a cargo of coal did not carry cargo but carried ballast, often in the form of sand or gravel. Over many years a vast quantity of ballast was deposited along the banks of the river, often spilling into the water, causing obstruction

Wapentake courts continued to play an important role in the administration of the West Riding throughout the early-modern period and for much of the nineteenth century. This can be demonstrated from the surviving court records of the six wapentake courts of the honour of Pontefract. These show that wapentake courts, acting as sheriff's tourns, performed a central function in early-modern local administration

The distinguished German scholar and political commentator Victor Aimé Huber travelled to Blackley in 1844 to see Samuel Bamford on the recommendation of Thomas Carlyle, in order to pursue his study of the Social Question in England. In 1850 his compatriot, the celebrated novelist and travel writer Fanny Lewald, on a tour of England and Scotland, paid a social visit to the Bamfords instigated by the

This is the first article-length study of the sheriffs of York and Yorkshire in the Tudor period. It argues that the shrievalty was a thriving system which fulfilled diverse vital functions of local government and administration. It begins by introducing the sheriffs of York and Yorkshire, explaining their relationship and manner of appointment. It then explains the principal duties of these sheriffs

Industrialization brought extensive factory development to northern English counties during the early nineteenth century, with new cotton, wool and worsted mills that employed many child workers. By 1840, some 1800 children, aged less than thirteen, worked in mills across the widespread Bradford parish – mostly in the central townships and predominantly in the worsted trade. Under the 1833 Factory

(2019). Editorial. Northern History: Vol. 56, No. 1-2, pp. 1-1.

(2019). Gordon Forster Essay Prize. Northern History: Vol. 56, No. 1-2, pp. 2-2.

This study establishes why, after centuries as a manorial borough, Kendal was incorporated in 1575 and who brought this change about. It assesses the relationships between the town, its parish and its local region and looks at the impact that the new corporation had on them. These issues are of general importance to incorporations in other towns, especially those which, like Kendal, had previously

cess or otherwise of his policies (p. 309). The only time that Richard’s proactivity failed him was following his seizure of the throne. Hicks perfectly encapsulates the brief period where Richard could have justifiably felt he had achieved it all, only to discover that the seizure of the throne was the very thing that took the control of his destiny out of his hands. Despite Hicks’ warning against

(2019). Coinage in the Northumbrian Landscape and Economy, c. 575–867. Northern History: Vol. 56, No. 1-2, pp. 162-165.

(2019). Communities in Contrast: Doncaster and its rural hinterland, c. 1830-1870. Northern History: Vol. 56, No. 1-2, pp. 175-176.