These are insightful first-hand accounts, first published in 1952, of everyday life in rural Yorkshire in the mid-eighteenth century.

In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuar

Upon publication, the first volume of Anne Lister's diaries, I Know My Own Heart, met with celebration, delight, and some skepticism. How could an upper class E