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The history of communication

On 03/07/201928/06/2019 By balaamIn History, NewsLeave a comment

The history of communication Writing We, humans, are social creatures. In order to be social, we have developed languages, speech has been with us about 500,000 years but sometimes that is not enough. Cave paintings show the necessity of lasting communication: media was born about 30,000 years ago. It took another 20,000 years after the …

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What a lot of names

On 15/12/201822/06/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Genealogy The Nativity by Matthew – part 1 Matthew's Gospel does not start in a good way for a lot of people. A list of 42 names. Matthew's Gospel looks at Jesus the King, a major theme of this book. The first 17 verses are Jesus human heredity, it shows that Jesus was human. It …

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Richard Oastler and the Luddites

On 19/07/201827/06/2018 By balaamIn History, HuddersfieldLeave a comment

In 2012 I blogged about the Luddites on the 200th anniversary of their rebellion and how to keep rebellion down 10% of the population of Huddersfield was the garrison stationed there, and that when the country was involved in two wars. One to stop Napoleon Bonaparte invading and one trying to contain rebellious settlers in …

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Two reformers

On 12/07/201827/06/2018 By balaamIn God, History, Huddersfield1 Comment

John Wesley and Henry Venn History of Huddersfield John Wesley I rode over the mountains to Huddersfield. A wilder people I never saw in England. The men, women and children filled the streets and seemed just ready to devour us. John Wesley's diary from June 1757 does not speak well of my hometown, thought the …

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Eating your way around the world

On 05/07/201827/06/2018 By balaamIn History, Huddersfield, Politics1 Comment

History of Huddersfield Immigration. To eat your way around the world you do not have to spend thousands of pounds going on a world cruise. Most of your eating will be the ship food, as good as it is that will not have the variety of eating in the countries you visit. Instead you can …

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Two families and three civil wars

On 28/06/201805/06/2018 By balaamIn History, HuddersfieldLeave a comment

History of Huddersfield Two families and three civil wars After the Norman invasion of England in 1066 things get easier as far as histories of the country are concerned, but much of this is concerned with the people who owned the land. There is not much written about the common people, and as my interest …

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DNA — Danes, Norse And…

On 21/06/201830/05/2018 By balaamIn History, HuddersfieldLeave a comment

History of Huddersfield DNA — Danes, Norse And... After being briefly in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, Between the 8th and 11th centuries Yorkshire was ruled by the Danes, and then the Vikings. The history of that period is swathed in darkness, no one really knows much about it because very little has been kept …

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History of Huddersfield – The Old North

On 07/06/201816/05/2018 By balaamIn HuddersfieldLeave a comment

History of Huddersfield Yr Hen Ogledd - The Old North Romans go home The Romans left Britain in about 410 AD and other than leaving roads, walled cities and large houses behind their culture did not affect the Brittonic people left behind. With on big exception: The Roman policy of divide and rule, pitting clan …

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Castle Hill

On 31/05/201814/05/2018 By balaamIn Huddersfield2 Comments

A History of Huddersfield Castle Hill Dominating the town of Huddersfield is the Victoria Tower, built to commemorate the diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 on top of a hill near Almondbury and intended to be 1,000 feet above sea level at the top of the tower. From many places including parts of the …

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Luddites

On 23/05/201823/03/2018 By balaamIn History, Huddersfield, Politics, Uncategorized1 Comment

Luddites My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 17 June 2017 In our back garden are five posts . These short posts are older than our hose, …

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