Helen Johnson, Yorkshire Writer
Helen Johnson Freelance Writer
I am delighted to announce my debut as a reviewer for the Historical Novels Society, a community of historical fiction lovers. The task proved not as easy as I’d imagined Continue Reading →
Astounded During my researches for my story set at the outbreak of the Great War, I was astounded to come across the Women’s Anti-Suffrage League. Yes – an organisation of Continue Reading →
War memorials all over the country display sorrowful lists of men killed in the Great War. But what of the families they left behind? What of wives and mothers left Continue Reading →
Gertrude Bell in Yorkshire and Iraq Getrude Bell was a remarkable woman who was equally at home in Yorkshire and Iraq. She died in Iraq in 1926, and now, wild Continue Reading →
Wool Mills There was a time when West Yorkshire was full of wool mills. From the early days of water power, through steam and then electric power, Yorkshire’s wool mills Continue Reading →
Bob Gallon has worked on the Bell Estate in Thirsk for all his working life, and has witnessed sixty years of change in farming. Farming in the 1940s Bob Gallon Continue Reading →
This year marks the centenary of the founding of Catterick Garrison, today, the biggest military base in Western Europe. Linda Turnbull, of North Yorkshire County Records Office, has been recording Continue Reading →
Defence of North Yorkshire and Cleveland For Dalesman this month, I spoke to John Harwood and Stuart McMillan, who I first met many years ago. They’ve spent decades studying Continue Reading →
November sees Remembrance Day. But some people spend all year Remembering, researching the details of the Fallen. One such person is John Knopp, of Snape, who has been trying to Continue Reading →
Helen Johnson spent an evening with Northallerton dominoes league, learing how to play the game. Continue Reading →