Writing about Jack & Elisha Sinkler of Pateley Bridge: Poachers, Prisoners, Folk Heroes. 👩🏻‍💻 Yorkshire dialect enthusiast 🗯 Deep in research mode 📚 www.kjhannam.co.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lp25gk3iy22fSort of finished my digital presentation, but didn't manage to keep it to 10 mins. It's a bloated 14 minutes long. What to cut out? 🤔13 May 2025 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp25gk3iy22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3loqargkces2dBeen busy working on my little local history exhibition. Having to do everything as cheaply as possible, because I'm paying for it all myself. Tried to find funding but...nowt. 😐 Despite having £0 to spend on it, seems to be turning out okay.09 May 2025 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqargkces2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lmajmn3wks2tSitting in the sunshine, listening to the birds, ignoring the Trumpcession because there's bugger all I can do about it. Curlews are back. Heard a woodpecker too.07 Apr 2025 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmajmn3wks2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lliytjnrmc2mOkay, how do I get rid of Meta AI in WhatsApp? The button is constantly hovering in the way and I will never *ever* use it.29 Mar 2025 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lliytjnrmc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lliupfmvmc2qSilly season has started I see. Already had someone walk into our garden to "admire the view" and it's not even breakfast yet. Great. Please leave.29 Mar 2025 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lliupfmvmc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lleunc2gu22kIf the only way you can "make" something is by stealing someone else's words or art, and running their work through your plagarism machine, I have to assume you are chronically lazy and a profoundly stupid person.27 Mar 2025 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lleunc2gu22khttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3llc5vdefu22iEnjoyed my first trip to North Yorkshire County Record Office yesterday. Big box of 19th century records waiting for me on arrival. Staff were super helpful, and I actually managed to get through the whole stack of documents by the end of the day. https://media.tenor.com/BRBnJitMZBYAAAAC/gandalf-reading.gif?hh=281&ww=49826 Mar 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3llc5vdefu22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3ll4noilucc2sWhere does the time go! Looking back at this post from June 2024, book is still a work in progress (I keep making new discoveries!) but I now have a website, a substack newsletter, and an exhibition about the Sinkler brothers later this year. They've taken over my life! 😆 [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4noilucc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lknhnua6b22pI'm currently without mobile phone service (O2 messed up billing, cut me off without warning!). At first I thought, oh well I never ring anyone anyway. Slowly, realising how many other things don't work if you can't get a text verification.18 Mar 2025 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknhnua6b22phttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lkelj5xs4c26Lost my voice a couple of weeks ago, after bad cough/chest infection. Not improving so pharmacist suggested Vocalzone pastilles. Allegedly they're honey & lemon flavour, but the taste is more akin to coating your tongue in Vicks Vaporub, then washing it down with creosote. They better work!14 Mar 2025 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkelj5xs4c26https://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lkbajgzyfs2aOn this day in 1844, the convict ship carrying poacher Jack Sinkler left England bound for Norfolk Island. The ship's surgeon for the voyage was Benjamin Bynoe, the man who nursed Charles Darwin back to health aboard HMS Beagle. https://nidderdaleheritage.substack.com/p/on-this-day-13-march #otd #localhistory13 Mar 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkbajgzyfs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lk6tar6emk2bSo far today we've had glorious sunshine, rain, snow, and now hail. Just a typical day in the Dales then really. 😆12 Mar 2025 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk6tar6emk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lk42yz6oqc2pOn this day in 1833 Elisha Sinkler was sentenced to hang. The 26-year old poacher from Pateley Bridge was locked up in York Castle prison to await his fate. Find out what happened next on my substack (or head over to my blog): https://open.substack.com/pub/nidderdaleheritage/p/on-this-day-11-march?r=5b2ph0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #otd #yorkshire #localhistory11 Mar 2025 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk42yz6oqc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3liynx6mmmc2oTaken the plunge and set up a Substack for my local history and dialect writing. Added all my existing blog posts. Hopefully, might be of interest to someone (though more likely it'll just be another platform I'm invisible on!) nidderdaleheritage.substack.com https://nidderdaleheritage.substack.com/25 Feb 2025 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3liynx6mmmc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lj5wfny2pc27Here's a Yorkshire Dales dialect word for you: brant. I live up a bank side that can be described as "gay brant" (meaning very steep)27 Feb 2025 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj5wfny2pc27https://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3liynx6mmmc2oTaken the plunge and set up a Substack for my local history and dialect writing. Added all my existing blog posts. Hopefully, might be of interest to someone (though more likely it'll just be another platform I'm invisible on!) nidderdaleheritage.substack.com https://nidderdaleheritage.substack.com/25 Feb 2025 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3liynx6mmmc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lirnka5wwc2oBeen a few months since I've used Instagram. OMG, the state of it. Absolutely full of A.I. slop. One of the top rated posts for my hometown is 100% A.I. generated. All the amazing photographers that come here and photograph Pateley, and people are being fed fake views that don't exist.22 Feb 2025 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lirnka5wwc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lir24rboxc23Last year, I went down a bit of a local history rabbit-hole, looking into Jack Sinkler and his brother Elisha, the famous poachers from Pateley Bridge. I’d known about the Sinklers since I was a child, but got engrossed in their story again last February. 1/222 Feb 2025 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lir24rboxc23https://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3liaidr4vdk2vAs they say in one of my favourite westerns, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend". A look at the real-life Yorkshire poacher I'm researching, Jack Sinkler, and his legendary folk hero status here in Nidderdale. https://www.kjhannam.co.uk/2025/01/31/king-of-nidderdale/15 Feb 2025 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3liaidr4vdk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lg6ilcgdkk2jA costly cuppa - 178 years ago "down under", the poacher/convict I'm writing about was caught with a sneaky bottle of tea. He paid for it with 2 months hard labour in the chain gang. The lengths a Yorkshireman will go for a brew! 🫖 https://www.kjhannam.co.uk/2025/01/20/on-this-day-20-january/20 Jan 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6ilcgdkk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3le5asazsas2rOn This Day - 25th December 1838 Elisha Sinkler escaped! 🏃‍♂️‍➡️ Assigned to a wealthy landowner in New South Wales, Elisha & a fellow convict legged it on Christmas morning. Recaptured in January, this wasn't the last time he made a break for freedom. https://www.kjhannam.co.uk/2024/12/25/on-this-day-25-december/25 Dec 2024 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3le5asazsas2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3ldldivsedk2jTak care o' thissens, there's some slape uns aboot.18 Dec 2024 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldldivsedk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3ld76x7se322xHere's a Yorkshire Dales dialect word to start the weekend: "gan" meaning to go. A few bonus words in the examples for you: "til" = to, "mun" = must, "brig" = bridge13 Dec 2024 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld76x7se322xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lcnjwhaxsk2eTook a little Christmas floral arrangement to the unmarked grave of the poachers I'm writing about. 150 years after the eldest brother died, it's possibly the first time anyone has left flowers for them. Since finding their burial place, I stop by now & again. 💐06 Dec 2024 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcnjwhaxsk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lcd5mvmcw22u02 Dec 2024 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcd5mvmcw22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lc3zzgyihk2n2016 feels more & more like a major Sliding Doors moment.29 Nov 2024 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc3zzgyihk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lbrzyfwyck2hIt would be so helpful if Amazon drivers were given a regular route, especially out here in the countryside. It's really inefficient, and unfair on the driver. Every day it's a new person, who has no idea how to find properties, whether their van can fit down a narrow lane etc.25 Nov 2024 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrzyfwyck2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lbowmc3tnc2e150 years ago today - poacher Elisha Sinkler died at the home he shared with his brother Jack, above Pateley Bridge. During his 67 years, Elisha had been sentenced to hang, transported to Australia (twice), seen New York, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape Peninsula. 1/2 https://www.kjhannam.co.uk/2024/11/24/on-this-day-24-november/24 Nov 2024 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbowmc3tnc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lbmhsqpzlc26Snow's turning to rain. Brought a branch down though, so that's a job to sort later. Got me thinking about how we pronounce it "snaw", and my Dad would say "snew" instead of snowed.23 Nov 2024 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbmhsqpzlc26https://bsky.app/profile/kirstyhannam.bsky.social/post/3lbequ5tsc22tProbably missed some, my head has been elsewhere for obvious reasons. 🚜❄️🍂🐏 https://www.kjhannam.co.uk/2024/11/19/dales-dialect-autumn-words/20 Nov 2024 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:3vb7xt53agezsutv5fxlvm2r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbequ5tsc22t