Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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With the restoration of the Habeas Corpus Act, the agitation for reform was renewed. A public meeting on the subject, was held at Westminster, on the twenty-eighth of March; and in June, Sir Francis Burdett’s motion for reform was negatived in the House of Commons.

Numerous meetings followed in various parts of the country; and Lancashire, and the Stockport borders of Cheshire, were not the last to be concerned in public demonstrations for reform. At one of these meetings, which took place at Lydgate, in Saddleworth, and at which Bagguley,-Drummond,-Fitton,-Haigh,and others, were the principal speakers; I, in the course of an address, insisted on the right, and the propriety also, of females who were present at such assemblages, voting by show of hand, for, or against the resolutions. This was a new idea; and the women, who attended numerously on that bleak ridge, were mightily pleased with it, and the men being nothing dissentient,— when the resolution was put, the women held up their hands, amid much laughter; and ever from that time, females voted with the men at the radical meetings. I was not then aware, that the new impulse thus given to political movement, would in a short time be applied to charitable and religious purposes. But it was so; our females voted at every subsequent meeting; it became the practice,―female political unions were formed, with their chair-women, committees, and other officials; and from us, the practice was soon borrowed, very judiciously no doubt, and applied in a greater or less degree, to the promotion of religious and charitable institutions.

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Date and source from Helen Walton. I’d love to see her “dissertation on how women were represented at the Peterloo Massacre.”

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• Bamford, Samuel (1788-1872) (1), radical reformer and writer (often in northern dialect) from Middleton, Lancashire W/G ·
• Cheshire (5) W/G ·
• Classical radicalism (9) W/G ·
• Fitton, William (1793-1840) (1), Royton (Oldham)-born Radical - "the lost Reformer" (Anna Mayall) W/G ·
• Francis Burdett (1) W/G ·
• Habeas Corpus Act 1816 (1) W/G ·
• House of Commons of England (5) W/G ·
• John Bagguley (1) W/G ·
• John Haigh (1) W/G ·
• Lancashire (35) W/G ·
• Lydgate, Greater Manchester (2) W/G ·
• Oldham (2) W/G ·
• Radical politics (5) W/G ·
• Saddleworth (6) W/G ·
• Samuel Drummond (1) W/G ·
• Stockport (2) W/G ·
• Suffrage (4) W/G ·
• Universal manhood suffrage (4) W/G ·
• Unreformed House of Commons (7), name given to the House of Commons before the Reform Acts of 1832 W/G ·
• West Riding of Yorkshire (150) W/G ·
• Women’s suffrage (3) W/G ·

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Date and source from Helen Walton. I’d love to see her “dissertation on how women were represented at the Peterloo Massacre.”

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What’s the source of Klara Mills and Nicola Pullen’s “The time has gone by for constitutional work. We women are outside the constitution. We are outlaws”?

Houses, not to be burnt down. In 1914, after leaving Leeds, she (and husband Henry Cohen?) were running a vegetarian boarding house at “Pomona”, Harlow Moor Drive, Harrogate: “Reform Food Establishment. Excellent catering by specialist in Reform diets. Late Dinners. Separate Tables.” A brief search hasn’t revealed which house that was, but they’re large down there, so I guess the Cohen jewellery business was doing well. However, 1923-36 they were back in Leeds and were living near us at 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road – second house on the left as you head up from Woodhouse Square.

Their only child (1902-84) changed his name from Reginald Fox Cohen to Corwen in 1929 and registered it in 1955, presumably either fearing or having experienced anti-semitism.

The Cohen family owned the Crown Manufacturing Company, which imported watches in the 1930s but began making them during WWII. Leonora Cohen’s 1919 action against the Excelsior Engineering Co. related however to munitions manufacturing – did she actually work there, or was this trade union-related?

OBE June 1928 (Times Court Circular) for social work (Times obit 7/9/1978).

Leonora, her father Canova Throp/Thorpe and nominative determinism:

Very 1870s Leeds: Canova Throp/Thorpe (dad of suffragette Leonora Cohen) is looking for another Gothic sculptor to help him decorate the (new?) Green Dragon Hotel, Guildford St. Green Dragon Yard, off the Headrow, is all that remains pic.twitter.com/YGjQGcFte0

— SingingOrganGrinder (@elorganillero) December 11, 2022

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