Now! Then! John Hobson reviews a pleasant but surprising December

31 December 1733: John Hobson reviews a pleasant but surprising December

John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:

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There has been very fair open weather this month; no frost or snow; some wind as warm as April; primroses sprung in the hedges; flowers in the garden; such a season has not been known in the memory of man.

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There has been very fair open weather this month; no frost or snow; some wind as warm as April; primroses sprung in the hedges; flowers in the garden; such a season has not been known in the memory of man.

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📌Dodworth (17) ·
Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
Little Ice Age (3) ·
Primula vulgaris (1) ·
Snow (16) ·
Weather (5) ·
West Riding of Yorkshire (150) ·

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