July 27, 2024
Tag: Yorkshire
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The Ripon Hornblower
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Tradition and pageantry are hallmarks in many civilizations, but in the eyes of most others, tradition in England is especially important and the English have a long and glorious experience with pageantry. The Ripon Hornblower may not be well known but it has been ongoing for over a thousand years.
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October 27, 2021 3 Comments
Charles Dickens and Raphael Tuck, a match made in heaven? Well, perchance, no, but when the author wrote his novels, he had no idea that a man named Tuck would also make a fortune from the tales he invented. The same was true in reverse, when the Tuck company needed subjects for their postcards, they turned to an author who died forty years before.