A biography of an exceptional man. John Yeadon became aware that he had a life and that it was his to direct. It became his project. Self education and unbounded energy drove this project forward. His stage was a small industrial town in the West Riding of Yorkshire over almost decades in the 18th and 19th centuries. He kept a diary for more than fifty of those years and through that we get to know about life in the town, his view of the wider world...