Grateful thanks to all the following for their invaluable assistance:
Dawn Keur at zenato.com, for cover design
To the helpful experts who answered my questions with patience and in detail from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Armouries, the National Railway Museum and especially to the Farm Conservation Adviser, at the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.
As a thank you to you readers there’s a link to a free historical short story at the end of the novel.