Amy Johnson was born in Hull- but does the city know about her amazing achievements? Few women went to university in the 1920s – she did. Later she learned to…

Put two men with ingenious ideas together, and you get the world-famous Rolls-Royce car. Henry Royce was an electrical engineer. He manufactured electrical motors developing electric doorbells. You name it,…

“My freedom is a privilege nothing else can equal.” Venture Smith made his feelings clear after buying his freedom. He was a slave from 1739-1765.  He was captured in a…

Hull was one of the most blitzed cities in Britain in World War 11. The bombing was so sustained and severe that in 1941 the government sent a secretive team…

The English Reformation in the national Church affected the lives of ordinary people throughout the country more than it did Henry V111’s way of life. He remained the ruler, and…

Have you ever been told that many villages were deserted in the Medieval period due to the Black Death? Have you read that there are about 3000 deserted villages in…

Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, was stabbed to death in broad daylight on 28th April, 1192. He was king of the crusader kingdom by marriage, and had been unanimously…

“Long Shadows” were the effects of debilitating injuries and what was worse, amputations, suffered by men who had fought in World War 1. The cheerful approach of ‘Home by Christmas’…

Were people 300 years ago like us in many ways? Look at this picture of a Coffee House, new and very popular in Queen Anne’s reign.  Discussion ranged from trivial…

Beverley. and East Yorkshire took part in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.  Surely not!  We saw pictures of rebels from Kent and Essex following Wat Tyler into London. The people…