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Yorkshire in the Seventeenth Century charts the events in England’s largest county through the years that saw the country change from a monarchy to the beginnings of a Parliamentary democracy and argues that Yorkshire and Yorkshire people were at the centre of affairs. Jack Binns was born in Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at the local grammar school and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Before taking early retirement in 1992, he taught history at Scarborough Sixth Form College. He is the author of many published articles on local history, particularly in the ...

There are at least thirteen other Scarboroughs in the world, but the Scarborough on Yorkshire's coast in England is the first and parent of all the others. This is a new account of a 2000-year old history of a place that has been Iron-Age camp, Roman signal station, Vikings' lair, Angevin castle, European fish fair, shipbuilding port and Britain's earliiest watering resort that invented the holiday by the sea. Jack Binns was born in Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at the grammar school there and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After more than 30 years teaching, as...

Yorkshire in the Civil Wars is more than a history of the momentous events of the English Civil Wars as they affected Yorkshire but also a detailed and enthralling account of the economic and social impact of the conflict on England’s largest county. Jack Binns was born in Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at the local grammar school and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Before taking early retirement in 1992, he taught history at Scarborough Sixth Form College. He is the author of many published articles on local history, particularly in the seventeenth century. ...

During the last thousand years Scarborough has been birthplace, home, refuge, playground, hospital and cemetery for pirates, kings, nobles, merchants, soldiers, seamen, physicians, engineers, artists, missionaries and mountebanks. Chosen for their outstanding courage, villainy or individuality, here are only a few, long-dead men and women whose deeds and misdeeds contributed significantly to the town's eventful history. Jack Binns was born in Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at the local grammar school and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Before taking early ...

Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600 - 1657) is the best remembered member of a family which for two centuries were overlords of an estate of 26,000 acres in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Thanks to his vivid and frank autobiographies, we know much in detail of an extraordinary life which ran from spendthrift playboy and successful estate manager to magistrate, member of parliament and leading opponent of King Charles I and his chief minister, the earl of Strafford. First as Parliament's military governor of Scarborough, then heroic Royalist defender of its castle, Cholmley finally suffered defeat, ...