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'Jottings on the Harrison family, clockmakers of Hull in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' by Arthur G Credland, a record of the work of the Harrison family as clock makers and bell-hangers in the north of England. Details on James Harrison grandson to James Harrison, brother to John Harrison 1693-1776, the inventor of the first reliable marine chronometer.
'Hard times in East Yorkshire: landlord and tenant, 1920-1940' by A Harris. Despite a significant increase in owner-occupation in the East Riding between 1917 and 1920 about three quarters of the cultivated area continued to be farmed by tenants between the wars. For most working farmers, owners and tenants this was a time of enforced economy accompanied not infrequently by personal hardship.
'The battle of Bridlington: civil war in the East Riding, February 1644' by David Johnson, a description of a little known skirmish between Bridlington's royal garrison and parliamentary raiders from Hull.
'The whalebones of East Yorkshire' by Nicholas Redman, a location list of the whalebones in East Yorkshire.
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