Blog competition winner – A Trip to the Royal Armouries Museum
And finally the winner of the Hello Yorkshire blog writing competition, which was run with the Language Centre at Leeds University to capture
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Blog competition 2nd place – A Trip to Haworth
Following the 3rd place article in our competition for foreign students at the Leeds University Language Centre here is the runner up entry by
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10 great Yorkshire museums
Be it due to a rainy day, or just the desire for an injection of historical knowledge, museums are fantastic places to visit
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Kiplin Hall gets £42½k grant from Heritage Lottery Fund for War Project
Kiplin Hall in North Yorkshire has been awarded a grant of £42,500 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help it research and develop a collaborative project with other members of the Yorkshire Country House Partnership to mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War in August 1914. The project “the Yorkshire Country House in Time of War” will begin this autumn and carry on for a further two years and show the important role that the some of the county’s country houses played during World War 2.
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Yorkshire VCs – For Valour
Yorkshire VCs – a book full of dramatic tales of derring-do. But this isn’t fiction: the stories in here are about real people risking their lives for king or queen and country. Interesting reading and a useful reference work.
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The Richmondshire Museum
The Richmondshire Museum offers a fascinating insight into the daily lives of Yorkshire folk from years gone by.
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