Issue 31 of Huddersfield Local History Society’s Journal is now available.
Current members of the Society receive a free complimentary copy of the journal. However, if we can’t tempt you to join today, you can order a copy of the journal. There is also a downloadable PDF version which has the exact same formatting as the print edition but incurs no extra postage costs.
Contents
- Chair’s Letter: Notes from Isolation (Cyril Pearce)
EDITORIAL
- Your Journey, Your History (Robert Piggott)
NEWS AND EVENTS
- News
- Partnership Pages
- Discover Huddersfield
- Kirklees Heritage Forum
- Edward Law History Prize
ARTICLES
- Huddersfield and the Peterloo Massacre (Janette Martin)
- ‘Defeat at His Own Hand’: Joseph Woodhead and the 1893 Huddersfield Bye-Election (David Green)
- From the Army Drill onto the Factory Shift: History of the Sufi-Muslims in Dewsbury (Waseem Riaz)
- Linthwaite’s Suffragist (Liz Quinn)
- Learning from Oral History: Growing up in a Working-Class Community (Michael George)
- Joshua Hobson and the Leeds Mercury (John Halstead)
- Nathan Haigh (Heather Wheeler)
- Changing Farm Communities in the Huddersfield Environs 1900-2018 (Don Jones and Jo Stanley)
BOOK NOTICES & REVIEWS
- Peter Hurst, Mark McCabe, Alan Brooke & Christine Verguson
OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
- Malcolm Chase (1957-2020)
Journal cover photos:
- © Andy Hemingway (Castle Hill at Sunset, Buckstones and Pule Hill)
- © Dave Pattern (Cloth Hall Tower and Ravensknowle Park with Tolson Museum)
- © Kirklees Image Archive (Lockwood Viaduct and Huddersfield c. 1960)