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the dramatisation of her mother’s actions; Pertillo is cut down before he reaches majority; the Frankfords’ children appear only to embody the future their mother has jeopardised. 1 These didactic concerns, which become evident at the end of A Woman Killed , are painfully close to the surface of the narrative in A Yorkshire Tragedy throughout. As in the subplot of Woman Killed , perhaps the overriding meanings of ‘household’ in the play are family and lineage, and it offers a complex examination of the intergenerational pull of the
detained to await the king’s pleasure and, some ten days later, both were executed as traitors. Within a month, Henry IV could write with satisfaction to his councillors, reporting the final reduction of the Percy strongholds in Northumberland to royal obedience. 3 These events are well attested and their significance for the reign of Henry IV is obvious: the king’s suppression of the Yorkshire risings and his successful reassertion of royal authority on the northern march proved to be vital turning- points that allowed a crisis-ridden regime to assume, at last, some
concentrations of judicial responsibility lent to the peace commission ‘almost the air of a foreign court setting up quarterly in the shire’. 12 This paper seeks to examine the strength of these reservations against the evidence available for the membership and activity of the commissions of the peace in the three Ridings of Yorkshire during the majority rule of Richard II and the reign of Henry IV. Within that period, 50 commissions were issued to a total of 94 justices, who can, with only a few problems of definition, be divided into four major categories: – 19 magnates
3 Thatcherism and South Yorkshire Looks and Smiles, Unfinished Business, Fun City, Threads In this chapter, we trace the aesthetic and political effects of the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government on Hines’s writing. His screenplay for the 1981 film Looks and Smiles takes an art-Âcinematic form to explore the pressures of the era’s unemployment on young people, in his fourth and final collaboration with Ken Loach. By contrast, Hines’s novel Unfinished Business (1983) examines the possibilities of social freedom, in this narrative about the
comments on Brown’s Overdone’ Yorkshire accent and Wolfit’s vocal characterisation catches that very well, the self-conscious flat vowel sounds a deliberate reminder to himself and to others of a self-made man who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps. The significance of this is that, for this reason, Brown might ironically be better disposed towards Lampton than he is towards Wales, whose privileges are inherited
Anne remained far keener to travel than Ann: ‘Talked of her allowing two thousand a year for travelling… Talked of going to Naples... What a temper.’ Anne wrote to elderly Lady Stuart, confiding her aim of ‘being off from here by the end of January. I feel as if I should be like a bird escaped from its cage.’ Anne read aloud from Robert Walsh’s Journey from Constantinople. Ann did not like this: ‘found A- crying over her prayers’.
Anne wrote to Vere, decrying American vulgarity: ‘Heaven defend [us] from Mobocracy!’, unlike ancient Greece’s true democracy. She added, ‘I live on remembrance of the past, and hope for the future; for the present wearies me.’ Meanwhile, early Chartism’s new newspaper, The Northern Star, flourished.
Christmas was very low key, their disagreements continuing. Anne determined: ‘I must wind up my own affairs and be off… I cannot go on with poor A-.’
Evidence is provided by place names and personal names of Nordic origin for Danish settlement in England and Scotland in the Viking period and later. The names show that Danish settlement was densest in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire but can also be traced outside the Danelaw. In the North, Danish settlers or their descendants moved across the Pennines to the Carlisle Plain, and from there along the coast of Cumberland and on across the sea to the Isle of Man, and perhaps back again to southern Lancashire and Cheshire before the middle of the tenth century. There,was also a spread of Danes around south-western England in the early eleventh century, reflecting the activities of Cnut the Great and his followers. After the Norman Conquest, Nordic influence spread into Dumfriesshire and the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It was in the more isolated, northern communities that Nordic linguistic influence continued to thrive.
In a theatre that self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process, considering a range of printed and documentary evidence for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. The book therefore offers a way of understanding theatrical representations based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods. The opening chapters use household manuals, court depositions, wills and inventories to reconstruct the morality of household space and its affective meanings, and to explore ways of imaging these spaces. Further chapters discuss Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Woman Killed With Kindness and A Yorkshire Tragedy, considering how the dynamics of the early modern house were represented on the stage. They identify a grammar of domestic representation stretching from subtle identifications of location to stage properties and the use of stage space. Investigating the connections between the seen and the unseen, between secret and revelation, between inside and outside, household and community, these plays are shown to offer a uniquely developed domestic mimesis.
This book offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Liberal Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. He grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wilson's landslide of 1966. Wainwright then played a key role in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Liberal Democrats; he represented a unique Yorkshire constituency that reflected his pride and hope for society; and though he gave his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in the Lords. He is central to the story of the Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and the state of its prospects. At the same time, this book is a parable of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and who want to follow their convictions at the highest level.
This book reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire. In exploring the social history of burial in rural areas, the book aims to encompass some of the principles underpinning 'l'histoire des mentalites'. The book considers the issue of churchyard closure. Churchyard closure generally signalled that burial space was made available elsewhere, and in most cases before 1894 this meant that the churchyard itself had been extended. The book reviews the incidence of churchyard extension, which was commonplace during the nineteenth century. The Burial Acts introduced legislation that permitted vestries to establish burial boards, which could raise loans repayable through the rates to fund the laying out of new cemeteries. In central North Riding, a total of eighteen burial boards were in operation before 1894, and the book reviews in detail the operation of the ten largest boards in that group. The Burial Acts maintained and even strengthened the hold of the Church of England on burial space, by substantially increasing the amount of consecrated land under its control. The book also addresses the contention that the new legislative context for burial in the twentieth century might then introduce the opportunity for a substantial centralisation of burial provision. Finally, the book reviews the pattern of burial provision in 2007 compared with 1850, and concludes that there is evidence of both continuity and change.