Welcome to The Yorkshire Journal

The Yorkshire Journal is a new e-journal for Yorkshire.

The idea of an e-journal for Yorkshire is the result of the closure of many Yorkshire magazines over resent years such as Smith Settles, Yorkshire Journal, which was taken over by Dalesman, then closed down, Around the Wolds and North Yorkshire, Milltown Memories and Old Yorkshire Magazine, which has not been published for many years.

This e-journal has been setup to take the place of all these now defunct publications. There are many readers and writers out there who have in the past enjoyed these publications and some have had their work published in magazines like the ones that have now closed due to the financial slump.

The proposed new e-journal called ‘The Yorkshire Journal’ as been designed to appeal to all readers and writers with an interest in Yorkshire's heritage past and present. It is a non-profit networking dedicated to Yorkshire and is a quarterly publication, published in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, online free of charge. 

Editorial contributions are welcome. Please submit articles and photographs by email directly to The Yorkshire Journal at theyorksj@hotmail.com for more information please see notes for contributions.

All the material in The Yorkshire Journal is copyright either to The Yorkshire Journal and/or the author. If you want to use it yourself, other than for personal study, please ask us.

Thank you. 

 

Andrew Simpson

The Yorkshire Journal Issue 1

This is the first issue of The Yorkshire Journal issue 1 Spring 2010. It contains three interesting articles; the first one is about the history of Whitby jet, which appears to be back in fashion as jewellery, being worn by celebrities and royalty. The second one is the story of the Scarborough Spa, which made Scarborough the first British seaside resort. The last article is about Mother Shipton and the Petrifying Well at Knaresborough. It is believed to be England’s oldest tourist attraction.

I hope you enjoy these three contributions.

Andrew Simpson

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Spring 2010