About the Author

Rachel Bellerby is an experienced journalist who specializes in the local, family and industrial history of Yorkshire. She has published many articles on these subjects including features in Ancestors, BBC History Magazine, Your Family Tree and Discover Your Ancestors. She is the author of Chasing The Sixpence: Memories of Bradford Mill Workers. Rachel Bellerby has lived in Yorkshire all her life and has traced her own Yorkshire ancestors back to the seventeenth century.