Author: Tom Smith
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William was born and bred in Sheffield. Aged 18, ‘he joined the late Mr Edward Baines of Leeds in the preparation of county histories and directories’. After about four years Baines retired and White took over the business. He moved it to Sheffield, with White’s Directories being formally established in 1822. The next step was…
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Born in Otterbourne, where she lived all her life, Charlotte M Yonge was a famous and successful authoress of the 19th century. Her best-selling work, which brought her world-wide fame and fortune, was The Heir of Redclyffe. But this was only one of well over a hundred books which she published in her lifetime as…
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One Hundred Years Ago. In 1925 and 1926 St Catharine’s Hill was investigated by three Old Wykehamists (former scholars at Winchester College) C F C Hawkes, J N L Myers and G E Stevens. The privately run excavation was followed by two further seasons, sponsored by the Field Club. The early work concentrated on the…
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Articles and reports bringing you research on the county’s history, archaeology, buildings, landscape and natural history.
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Articles and reports bringing you research on the county’s history, archaeology, buildings, landscape and natural history.
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Articles and reports bringing you research on the county’s history, archaeology, buildings, landscape and natural history.
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Articles and reports bringing you research on the county’s history, archaeology, buildings, landscape and natural history.
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Articles and reports bringing you research on the county’s history, archaeology, buildings, landscape and natural history.
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Articles and reports bringing you research on the county’s history, archaeology, buildings, landscape and natural history.
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Articles and reports bringing you research on the county’s history, archaeology, buildings, landscape and natural history.