Author name: Richard Clarke

Even a late as the early 20th century the lower R. Hull estuarine lowlands between what in 1911 became Pickering Park to the north of the Hull – Hessle Road and Hessle village itself remained post-Enclosure fields, probably a mix of arable and pasture.  South of the road – although alongside the road would have […]

Last Monday night gave a talk to Hull Civic Society at the Royal Station Hotel (Mercure Hotel) entitled ‘The History of Hessle Common (South-west Hull)’. It was quite well received and included some welcome and informative comments and questions from the audience. One such recollection was of Priory Farm surviving well into the 1960s. Priory

Copernicus’s residence in Frombork (see yesterday’s blog) was in a tower which formed part of the medieval town walls. Nearby was the medieval cathedral which, like the walls, was built of brick. This invites a comparison with Hull which, during the life of Copernicus 1473-1543, also retained its medieval town walls built of brick as was

Last evening attended another lecture given at the Mercure Hotel (ex Royal Station Hotel), Hull by the President of the Hull and East Riding Astronomical Association and organised by the Hull Literary and Philosophical Association. Held in the large ground-floor room it was an excellent talk with good visuals and left one reeling at the

The short answer is we couldn’t know as he never experienced or conceived of such a thing back in the 1870s. However he was a noted supporter of the ideas of the Rev. Thomas Malthus who had published his Essay on Population back in the late 18th century. Malthus believed that there was a natural

In her Introduction to the 2013 re-publication of Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (in the series Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) Janet Browne of Harvard University doesn’t duck the evidence ‘he (Darwin) believed that sexual selection fostered inbuilt male superiority …In early human societies, the necessities of survival, he