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In this section you can find out more about special topics relating to Historic Cleveland. All groups participating in the website are able to place materials on this part of the website. We hope that this section will build up to cover a wide range of special topics, from cairns to country houses, from rigg and furrow to railways, from Cleveland cheese to Cleveland Bays.

Portrait of Ralph Jackson

Ralph Jackson Diaries

Ralph Jackson (1736-1790) was in North Yorkshire ...

Captain William Wilson, aged 40, painted circa 1755 (Private collection)

Commodore William Wilson of Great Ayton (1715-1795)

An essay by Cliff Thornton, President of the Captain Cook Society