The 1881 Census tells us a great deal about the lives of thirteen to nineteen year-olds born in Tickhill or living here in 1881. Overall, teenagers in 1881 had very different opportunities compared to today’s teenagers!

While reading local papers on microfiche at Doncaster Local Studies Library, to help with research for Occasional Paper 6, Lesley Nicholson found a number of press cuttings and newspaper articles...

An article about a Tickhill School Visit to the British Empire Exhibition in 1924

In the 1920s and 1930s Education Weeks became a popular way for schools to involve the community in their work and to raise awareness of adult education. 1936 was the first time such a venture was attempted in Tickhill...

After the Archbishop of York, Robert Hay Drummond, undertook a Visitation of all the parishes for which he was responsible in 1764 there is a fair amount of information about schools, or lack of them

Enormous changes took place in the provision of schools in the century after the 1764 Visitation. A starting point for this contrast can be found in the returns of another Visitation, this time arranged under the auspices of Archbishop William Thomson in 1865.

When Benjamin Penny-Mason synthesized data on the skeletons of 4,626 children dating from AD1000 to AD 1700 he found that the Reformation had more of an effect than the Black Death, Wars of the Roses or the Hundred Years' War on childhood health!

Betty Hill, née Rawson, was born in Tickhill in 1915 and grew up in the family home in Westgate with her parents, Ethel and John, her sister Joan and brother Roger.