Ralph Jackson Diaries
Ralph Jackson (1736-1790) was a North Yorkshire landowner and man of business about whom we know a considerable amount because the diaries he composed have almost all survived.
Jackson’s great achievement was to keep a diary for over forty years, from the age of 13 until his death. This diary, in 19 leather-bound volumes labelled alphabetically from A to U, covers the period from 1749 to 1790, with the exception of two years (1754-5) when he ceased writing it, and also 1767-8 (Book M) which is missing from the collection.
The manuscript of the diary is held today at Teesside Archives, Middlesbrough (ref. U/WJ)), and now, for the first time, it is being transcribed in its entirety, although excerpts from it have frequently been used by local historians and others.
To read excerpts from the diaries, etc., click onto one of the sections listed on the left.
