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Here’s to Yorkshire’s stunning landscapes, rich history, legendary tales, and to the people, vibrant and diverse - to those who shaped its past and those writing its next chapter. All toasted with a proper cup of Yorkshire tea. Happy Yorkshire Day and thank you for your support. #YorkshireDay

A nostalgic favourite gets a fresh twist in this easy Black Forest-inspired traybake from my friend, baker and presenter Meryl White @grandmaabson.bsky.social Perfect for summer celebrations yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/food...

Fizz, farewell and black forest gateauA nostalgic favourite gets a fresh twist in this easy Black Forest-inspired traybake, perfect for summer celebrationsyorkshirebylines.co.uk

A classic 1970s view looking over Scarborough's South Bay looking towards the castle headland. I had forgotten all about the Oriel Cricket Ground in the foreground. It sat just off Oriel Crescent and Esplanade Plaza, on the cliffs above the South Bay.

🧵Historic England has published two new reports highlighting the economic value of heritage. The research shows that historic buildings support local economic growth by attracting tourism, boosting property values and encouraging investment. It also finds that archaeology, heritage

🧵Although Victoria Cave near Settle below yielded animal bones and early artifacts from glacial periods the earliest securely dated signs of habitation in the Yorkshire Dales belong to the Mesolithic period, when post-glacial hunter-gatherers exploited the region’s upland lakes, such as Malham

🧵More about Pontefract: During the English Civil War, John Grant was the gunner in charge of the parliamentary artillery at Pontefract Castle. He was described as an "expert siege gunner" and commanded a "great iron gunne" at the Battle of Chequerfield in March 1645. When Colonel

The Golden Waking Golden fields beneath the summer sky, Where hedgerows stitch the hills nearby. The wheat keeps its silent watch, As light and shadow softly cross. The land remembers seasons gone, And whispers hope with every dawn. Image: Wheat before the harvest Allan Harris CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Wakefield Museums & Castles has launched its first-ever Crowdfunder to help bring a rare Roman brooch, discovered in Hemsworth, into Wakefield’s permanent museum collection. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hemsworth-...

A Roman Brooch for Hemsworth – Be Part of HistoryHelp us bring a rare Roman brooch from Hemsworth into Wakefield’s collection, support its display, interpretation and community engagementwww.crowdfunder.co.uk

🧵Medieval records show that Byland Abbey established a grange at Bentley Grange, Emley by the late 12th century, with evidence suggesting agriculture, iron forging and smelting taking place By the 15th century ironworking had ceased, and after the Dissolution in 1538 the site was recorded as

🧵The buildings in Swales Yard, behind 5–9 Corn Market in Pontefract comprise a range of two-storey timber-framed structures. Dendrochronology has provided a date of 1609 for the timber although their origins could be earlier. Originally constructed as commercial buildings serving

From 1942 this work is one of a series by Henry Moore. It captures the dark, claustrophobic, conditions faced by miners working underground. Moore was born on 30 July 1898 in the industrial town of Castleford where his father worked at Wheldale Colliery.

🧵During the medieval period deep economic and cultural connections linked Yorkshire and the Netherlands across the North Sea. At the heart of this relationship was the lucrative wool trade. Yorkshire's great monastic estates, including Fountains Abbey and Kirkstall Abbey,

🧵Why Social Care Matters So Much: In 2003, I took redundancy so I could care for my mum during the last year of her life. She was living with dementia and ovarian cancer. Looking back, it wasn't a sad time. We shared precious moments together, we talked, laughed and, yes, cried

🧵Dew ponds are a distinctive feature of the Yorkshire Wolds, dug in the 18th and 19th centuries to give livestock precious water where springs and streams were few. Shallow, saucer-shaped and clay-lined, they gathered rain and runoff rather than dew, despite their name.

🧵Hull born abolitionist and philanthropist William Wilberforce died on this day 29 July in 1833, He was buried in Westminster Abbey. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 passed its second reading in the House of Commons unopposed on 22 July 1833, just a week before Wilberforce

OTD 29 July in 1565 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Mary, Queen of Scots, married her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley who was born at Temple Newsam outside Leeds, in a match driven by love, ambition and politics. Both had strong claims to the English throne, making the union