Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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CRO5S-READINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS.
Yesterday, a violent thunder storm – was bound over to keep the peace for two years.

Lost, on Saturday, in Hyde Park, a young pointer – he wears his own hair, and speaks French fluently.

The Speaker’s public dinners will commence next week – admittance three shillings, while the animals are feeding.

To the present scarcity of labour to get in the harvest – J. L. corn cutter and tooth-drawer, offers his services.

Last week, a poor woman was safely delivered of – one serjeant, one corporal, and thirteen rank and file.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Should I delete this when I find the London publication from which it is surely plagiarised? Or is it sufficient that the Hull Packet thinks its readers sophisticated enough to enjoy the humour? What do you call this genre?

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2 October 1800: Part of an obituary to Harry Rowe, Punch and Judy man, trumpeter at the Battle of Culloden and the York assizes, who died today, old and ill, in the York poorhouse

3 August 1873: Eight years after the end of slavery in the United States, the Fisk Jubilee Singers sing spirituals in a crowded Hull street

27 March 1690: At the première of an ode celebrating the “chief agents” of the Glorious Revolution – “the city and county of York” – London-based Yorkshiremen hear of domestic decline since the days of the Roman emperor Constantine

3 May 1343: Short of cash for his French wars, Edward III asks what the effect on his rental income will be of January storms and coastal erosion at Ravenser Odd (Holderness)

23 August 1837: Robert Gibson, fishmonger of Queen Street, Hull, is beggared by his Liberal landlord for favouring the Conservatives in the general election, says the (Tory) Hull Packet

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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