Christmas in Georgian East Yorkshire
Many aspects of how we celebrate Christmas are said to have been introduced in the Victorian period, some thanks to Prince Albert, but how was Christmas celebrated in Georgian East
Georgian Society
There are fascinating snap shots of life in the Georgian period to be found in diaries, letters, family papers and other regional Archive records.
Presented here a selection of these insights relating to East Yorkshire.
A Georgian Courtship – Love Letters from William Burton of Hotham Hall to Dorothy Anderson of Kilnwick Percy
Fifty years ago I came across a bundle of letters, in the Anderson family papers in Lincolnshire Archives Office, written by William Burton, son of the builder of Hotham Hall to Do
Two 18th-century Elopements in the Beverley Area
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice 16-year-old Lydia Bennet writes the following note to the woman who had been acting as her chaperone: ‘You will laugh when you know where I