May 2019

Fostering – help change a future
Published 8 May 2019
“I like fostering because it changes the lives of young people dramatically” – that’s what Liana says about the care and support her parents Tom and Alison give to some of North Yorkshire’s young people who can’t live at home with their birth families.
Explore stories of our county’s convicts at archives event
Published 1 May 2019
Criminal records from the 19th century detail the harsh punishments for petty crime in North Yorkshire, such as the two months’ hard labour in Northallerton’s house of correction handed to Buffalo for stealing three fleeces in 1871.