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Presenting the Past:
Anne Lister of Halifax by Jill Liddington
Nearly 150 years later, in 1984, a Guardian article 'The two million word enigma' alerted readers to Anne's extensive diaries. Then in 1988 Helena Whitbread's I Know My Own Heart made the diaries accessible at last to a much wider readership, establishing beyond a scintilla of doubt Anne's lesbianism.
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Gone Walkabout, 24 Walks in the Calder Valley by Anna Carlisle - revised and reprinted, September 2009
First having appeared in the Hebden Bridge Times and Todmorden News, the twenty-four walks featured in this book are designed, firstly, to have any sedentary Calder Valley dwellers haul themselves up out of their armchairs and onto their own beautiful 'tops' so Close to Home - and secondly, to take the more serious walking enthusiast 'Further Afield' and onto the remotest western reaches of our county - and even into the neighbouring one.
The History of Saxokakaurhs, A Long Forgotten Settlement by Steve Murtywith help from Ann Kilbey and Frank Woolrych
A thoroughly engrossing account of 1,000 years of Calder Valley history, focusing in particular on a tiny upper Calder Valley hamlet between Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge, whose origins go back to Norman times. More info
The long-awaited third volume of Mytholmroyd writer Jill Robinson's Berringden Brow trilogy. As with all Jill Robinson's writing, this book is a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and sometimes unsettling truth.
A Place Like This details the comings and goings at the centre, where heroine Jess and her colleague Nick attempt to deal with a variety of problems, including evil spirits in someone's cellar, a pensioner's outlandishly large utility bills, and finding safe refuge for a trafficked young woman from Moldova. More info
A Village Childhood, an illustrated, personal recollection of Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge by Gertrude Attwood, £12
Hebden Bridge Town Centre Trail
Revised edition 2008 - £2
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Alice's Album
The story of Alice Longstaff and her Hebden Bridge Photographer's Studio Compiled by Issy Shannon and Frank Woolrych
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Recollections of the Brontës
First published in 1894 by the then Vicar of Hebden Bridge, these personal recollections have remained virtually unknown for over a hundred years. Rev George Sowden defends Patrick against "some absurd suggestions" and adds a few lively touches to the Brontë story.
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SEEING IT THROUGH
Halifax and Calderdale
During World War II
by Peter Thomas
£10
A Century of Change: A 100 Years of Hebden Bridge and District, published by the Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society. to celebrate the new millenium. Packed with photographs in colour and black and white, many from the Alice Longstaff collection. The text is by local historian, the late Colin Spencer. £17.50 in hardback. (This includes part of the shipping cost which is £3.75 in total as this is a heavy book - the remainder of the shipping cost (£1.95) is added when you make your payment)
View from the Bridge by John Morrison
The best selling local book which started as a weekly column on the Hebden Bridge Web.
When this little old milltown went into serious
decline, it soon filled up again with an intriguingly diverse cast of
'off-cumdens'. Artists, writers, new-age therapists, lovers, loners and
loser. Excellent comic writing and observation. "Local publishers Pennine Pens beat all records with a runaway local hit".
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Back to the Bridge by John Morrison, second in the Milltown Trilogy
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A Bridge Too Far by John Morrison, third in the Milltown Trilogy
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American poet, Sylvia Plath is buried in Heptonstall above Hebden Bridge. Elaine Connell has produced this very readable introduction to her work. See also Elaine's Sylia Plath Forum and more info about the book
Nature's Domain by award winning Hebden Bridge historian, Jill Liddington. Anne Lister is best known to us as the lesbian diarist owner of Shibden Hall in the early 19th century. Nature's Domain tracks her intense courtship of Ann Walker, vividly and candidly recorded in Anne's daily journals - and partly written in her own secret code.
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Hebden Bridge historian, Jill Liddington tracks the story of these forgotten suffragettes across the North of England, including Lavena Saltonstall of Hebden Bridge, and offers an utterly original history of suffrage. They took their message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales to win Edwardian hearts and minds.
New novel by former Hebden Bridge resident, Mark Piggott. Joe Noone is a degenerate and enthusiastic explorer of the gutter. Fire Horses views England over the last 25 years, from small town to grimy metropolitan underbelly, through the eyes and lens of one deeply troubled individual and his complex relationships with his childhood friend and women in his life.
Hebden Bridge author and journalist Andrew Bibby walks the Pennines along the route of the watershed that separates the water flowing westwards to the Irish Sea and the Atlantic from the water heading towards the North Sea, and gains insights into the history, ecology, geology and culture of the area. John Morrison, who lived in Hebden Bridge until recently, specializes in photographs of the north of England.
Yorkshire Lives and Landscapes
Sutton Publishing 2006, £12.99
Ian Emberson, local poet, playwright and artist, portrays the county and its people in a series of gentle anecdotes: Life in a small village, Asian dancing in Huddersfield, walking the Pennine Way, the choral singing tradition, even gardening and studying local history: many diverse elements of life in Yorkshire today are explored in a book that explores the county's cultural traditions.
A new series of special guidebooks can help walkers get the best out of new access to open countryside. The Freedom to Roam guides are jointly published by the Ramblers and Frances Lincoln. The handy-sized guides each outline around a dozen walks using new access land, as well as extensive practical information on the new rights of access.
South Pennines and the Bronte Moors by Hebden Bridge writer, Andrew Bibby - buy now