The Edge of Dark: Read an excerpt 5
Although Jane is plain, her father is rich enough to buy her a fine husband, and she is married to Robert Holmwood. Robert is young and handsome and wealthy; Jane can hardly believe her luck. […]
Although Jane is plain, her father is rich enough to buy her a fine husband, and she is married to Robert Holmwood. Robert is young and handsome and wealthy; Jane can hardly believe her luck. […]
When we first meet Jane, she is just twelve and living in her father’s house in St Andrewgate. Her mother is dead, and although Jane is nominally in charge of the household, she relies on […]
One of the oldest and most photographed streets in York, Stonegate has been one of the city’s key thoroughfares since Roman times, when York was known as Eboracum. As the Via Praetoria, Stonegate led from […]
Today, Lord Mayor’s Walk is a busy section of the Inner Ring Road, following the line of the city walls between Monk Bar and Gillygate, but before the 18th century this was a track known […]
Transcribing a few pages of York’s Wardmote Court Book every morning is my daily treat (sad, I know!) The bulk of the surviving 16th-century records run from 1575 to 1586, and now that I’m picking […]
Lately the news seems to have been full of exciting archaeological excavations, most notably the discovery of Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park (as you might imagine, I’m in favour of him being […]
I walk along St Andrewgate almost every time I go into town, and I always think about how often it was mentioned in the wardmote court records. It was a poor parish in the late […]
One of the first things you learn when you come to York is that streets are called gates, and gates are called bars. Monk Bar is one of the four great gates into the walled […]
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