<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Paul Rushworth-Brown – Author & Educator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Award-nominated author of four historical novels, including Outback Odyssey – where red dust meets cultural reckoning.]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/paulrushworthbrownskulduggerywinter</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 08:26:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/pt/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[17th Century Yorkshire: Cruel and Unusual Punishment ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rain came hard across the square, washing mud into the gutters while the crowd gathered close enough to smell fear.

The two men sagged inside the pillory, wrists swollen against the wood, their faces bruised raw from a night spent beneath the anger of the town. Someone laughed from the edge of the crowd. Another spat.

“Coin catchers,” a voice muttered.

But Thomas Rushworth said nothing.

He watched the men carefully, not as monsters, but as desperate souls cornered by hunger.]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/af/post/17th-century-yorkshire-cruel-and-unusual-punishment</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0901d0d9aededabd3d8ab1</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:46:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_dad2d54fafe64962abd580825740d52c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haworth, Yorkshire: The Past Tourists Were Never Meant to See]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beneath the postcard beauty of modern Haworth lies a far darker history — one shaped by overcrowded graveyards, open sewage, disease, hunger, and survival.

Long before tourists walked the famous cobbled Main Street, families lived in damp cellar rooms where refuse flowed through the streets and death arrived early for many children born into poverty.

The Haworth remembered today is only part of the story.

The other Haworth — the forgotten Haworth — still lingers beneath the stones.]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/ar/post/haworth-yorkshire-the-past-tourists-were-never-meant-to-see-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0901a9f42f58313cc90797</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:45:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_de128eeb257641af80ef20b7e6131ed7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haworth, Yorkshire: The Past Tourists Were Never Meant to See]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beneath the postcard beauty of modern Haworth lies a far darker history — one shaped by overcrowded graveyards, open sewage, disease, hunger, and survival.

Long before tourists walked the famous cobbled Main Street, families lived in damp cellar rooms where refuse flowed through the streets and death arrived early for many children born into poverty.

The Haworth remembered today is only part of the story.

The other Haworth — the forgotten Haworth — still lingers beneath the stones.]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/af/post/haworth-yorkshire-the-past-tourists-were-never-meant-to-see</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a09017ef42f58313cc90773</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:45:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_de128eeb257641af80ef20b7e6131ed7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/hi/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-10</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a090128d9aededabd3d8a41</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:43:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/eu/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a090113537a5024211551d0</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:43:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/ga/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0900dd8bb7480e95f61688</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:42:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/nl/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0900bb537a502421155180</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:41:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/fr/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0900a1a33f78ff2017299a</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:41:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/es/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0900899ff824a31b303e95</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:41:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/cy/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a090073ed04b15a6ad3bb47</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:40:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/bg/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a09005dd9aededabd3d89b5</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:40:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/ar/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a090043bdbdace814c0f302</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:39:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/af/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a090020bdbdace814c0f2dc</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:39:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Freedom Really Written For?]]></title><description><![CDATA[“‘All men are created equal.’
The slaves wanted to believe those words included them — but they knew in their hearts that wasn’t the case.”

— Rohn Hein, discussing The Valet’s Witness during his Down Under Interviews appearance]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/post/who-was-freedom-really-written-for</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a08ed1fdf43effc8ce08139</guid><category><![CDATA[Feature Articles-History Unknown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Book Publishing Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guest Authors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Media]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down Under Interviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Literary Commentary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Media & Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:14:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_c428931bb5504e7098047dc69eba9599~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haworth, Yorkshire: The Past Tourists Were Never Meant to See]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beneath the postcard beauty of modern Haworth lies a far darker history — one shaped by overcrowded graveyards, open sewage, disease, hunger, and survival.

Long before tourists walked the famous cobbled Main Street, families lived in damp cellar rooms where refuse flowed through the streets and death arrived early for many children born into poverty.

The Haworth remembered today is only part of the story.

The other Haworth — the forgotten Haworth — still lingers beneath the stones.]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/post/haworth-yorkshire-would-tourists-really-want-to-step-into-another-era</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8b83dab309d00017f5cb55</guid><category><![CDATA[Feature Articles-History Unknown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Book Publishing Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[Media]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down Under Interviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Literary Commentary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Media & Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 01:40:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_de128eeb257641af80ef20b7e6131ed7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[17th Century Yorkshire: Cruel and Unusual Punishment ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rain came hard across the square, washing mud into the gutters while the crowd gathered close enough to smell fear.

The two men sagged inside the pillory, wrists swollen against the wood, their faces bruised raw from a night spent beneath the anger of the town. Someone laughed from the edge of the crowd. Another spat.

“Coin catchers,” a voice muttered.

But Thomas Rushworth said nothing.

He watched the men carefully, not as monsters, but as desperate souls cornered by hunger.]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/post/17th-century-yorkshire-local-crime-and-punishment</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f99ffcc55970e00174a1e1d</guid><category><![CDATA[Feature Articles-History Unknown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Book Publishing Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[Media]]></category><category><![CDATA[Literary Commentary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Media & Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:58:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_dad2d54fafe64962abd580825740d52c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[History Wasn’t Clean. It Was Lived-Human Cost of History]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Not simply what happened, but what it felt like to live through those moments.
What fear demanded of people.
What survival changed within them.”]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/zh/post/history-wasn-t-clean-it-was-lived-human-cost-of-history-4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a07bb11537a502421149925</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:36:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_8d0d6e788e9441459d6e41f2ad480717~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[History Wasn’t Clean. It Was Lived-Human Cost of History]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Not simply what happened, but what it felt like to live through those moments.
What fear demanded of people.
What survival changed within them.”]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/ru/post/history-wasn-t-clean-it-was-lived-human-cost-of-history-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a07bb0970e7b59e7b3be8e5</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:35:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_8d0d6e788e9441459d6e41f2ad480717~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[History Wasn’t Clean. It Was Lived-Human Cost of History]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Not simply what happened, but what it felt like to live through those moments.
What fear demanded of people.
What survival changed within them.”]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/ga/post/history-wasn-t-clean-it-was-lived-human-cost-of-history-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a07bb0370e7b59e7b3be8e1</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:35:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_8d0d6e788e9441459d6e41f2ad480717~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[History Wasn’t Clean. It Was Lived-Human Cost of History]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Not simply what happened, but what it felt like to live through those moments.
What fear demanded of people.
What survival changed within them.”]]></description><link>https://www.paulrushworthbrown.com/cy/post/history-wasn-t-clean-it-was-lived-human-cost-of-history-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a07bae9bd24df48be60b897</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:34:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f65aad_8d0d6e788e9441459d6e41f2ad480717~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Rushworth-Brown</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>