The blog for the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York.
The author of this post is anonymous. A few days ago, I was rummaging through a box of wills when I noticed something odd. Amongst the wills of those who died in 1703, and unusually high proportion had died aboard a ship. Closer inspection revealed that each of the thirteen Yorkshire men who died in … Continue reading The Great Storm of 1703
A guest post by Dr George Redmonds, author of the Yorkshire Historic Dictionary. If I were accused of eavesdropping I might be mildly embarrassed but I would certainly not expect tobe punished for it. The truth is that we use the word loosely these days, not stopping to consider that the eavesdropper was once the … Continue reading Eavesdroppers