Blackthorn Press: 164 books

The Whitby to Pickering railway opened in 1836 with George Stephenson as its engineer. At first, carriages were horse drawn before being replaced by `travelling engines' when the line was extended to Scarborough and York. Gordon Bell brings together documents published at the time with drawings for...

Fully illustrated, this new ebook presents York's history in a single, readable volume, each chapter written by the leading authority on his period. There is a full bibliography for those wanting to take their interest further. The book is likely to be the standard work on York's history for years to come.

Rosalin Barker's history of Whitby traces the story of the town from its beginnings in the middle ages, through its heyday as one of England's leading ports to the present day. It is fully illustrated, featuring the photographs of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. Born in Scotland, Rosalin Barker is...

The Story of London spans two thousand years of history and traces the origins of London from its beginnings as a Roman fort to one of the world’s great cities. Alan Avery studied history at Kings College London and is the author of The Story of York, The Story of Hull and The Story of Bradford.

These five one-act plays were written to stimulate debate in the faith community over such topics as the after-life (Stardust Melody), growing old (Now We Are Sixty), faith (The Word), pacifism (George Fox and Margaret Fell Get Stuck in a Lift) and Christian beliefs (One of that Despised People)....

This new history traces the development of Bradford from its first settlement in Anglo-Saxon times on the banks of the Bradford beck to the present day. For hundreds of years it was a small Pennine village associated with the making of cloth. Despite the disruption of the Civil War in the seventeenth...

This collection of short stories by Yorkshire writer Winifred Holtby, illustrates her intense humanism and shows that she was not just a 'woman in her time' but a unique, highly gifted, warm-hearted human being. Contains 34 stories and a new appreciation by Jack Binns.

‘Travelling Sketches’ were written by Trollope for the Pall Mall Gazette and then gathered and published by Chapman and Hall in 1866. These brief, benevolent pieces on the Englishman and woman abroad are of historic value but also ring true of the modern tourist – ‘If I may venture...

This new ebook about the history of North Yorkshire's County Town tells the story from its beginnings to the year 2002. With 139 illustrations and maps, and a complete bibliography, the book is perfect for the curious or those wanting to study the town's history in depth. Michael Riordan has several publications about Northallerton's history and is the Town Council's official historian.

Driffield’s story is typical of any small market town, but, like these, its story is also unique, not only in its hey-day, with canal builders, railway barons and town-makers ensuring the leap from village to town, but also from earliest times with the visits of nomadic hunters and gatherers. We...

Hornsea is ordinary, no different from countless other towns and villages scattered across the face of England. Yet, at the same time, it is unique, a product of local conditions and forces, of ceaseless interactions between people and their environment over the last 10,000 years. It is this opposition...

This new ebook is a detailed study of the county of Yorkshire from 1558 to 1603, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth never visited Yorkshire but had she done so, she would have found a vibrant, young society, searching for its religious values yet determined to enjoy itself. John Rushton MBE has spent a lifetime lecturing and writing about Yorkshire's history.  

This new ebook by John Rushton is a study of Yorkshire from 1485 to 1558. It covers every aspect of life in the county, is copiously illustrated and has many informative tables and a full bibliography for further study.

'Mother and Daughter' can be read as one of Lawrence's diatribes against women. Two women do their best to get along without men but in the end, as Lawrence always proposed, a woman cannot be fulfilled without a dominant man, however unsuitable he may be.