Now Then: The Story of Yorkshire and it's People, Rick Broadbent

Now Then: The Story of Yorkshire and it's People, Rick BroadbentNew Paperback Written from the perspective of an exiled Yorkshireman this bestselling, award winning author returns to his native county to discover and reveal its soul. We all know the tropes Geoffrey Boycott incarnate, ferret leggers and folk singers gambolling about Ilkley Moor without appropriate headgear but why is Yorkshire God's Own County? Exiled Yorkshireman Rick Broadbent sets out to find out whether Yorkshireness is something that can be

and why does it matter

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