Barnard Castle Shops, Pubs & Trades Through Time

Paul Chrystal was educated at the Universities of Hull and Southampton where he took degrees in Classics and wrote his MPhil thesis on attitudes to women in Roman love poetry. He appears regularly on BBC local radio the World Service as well as publishing features for national newspapers and history magazines. He has been history advisor for a number of York tourist attractions and is the author of many books on a wide range of subjects, including histories of northern places focussing on Yorkshire, social histories of tea, chocolate and confectionery and various aspects of classical literature and Roman history. Paul lives near York and is married with three grown up children. Carol has had a lifelong interest in local history and archaeology and since being a teenager has participated in excavations and digs. She has been part of a long-term major dig at a medieval site in North Yorkshire. She has had articles published in Practical Family History 2007/2008, several Family History Society Journals and was interviewed on Radio 4 as part on "Making History"(2009). She created the "historic town trail" guided walk for Barnard Castle, produced by the TIC.