Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 366 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

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Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

  • Sun: 06:30-19:39, zenith 13:05
  • Moon: rise 03:30 set 09:18, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Leeds:

  • Sun: 06:35-19:44, zenith 13:09
  • Moon: rise 03:36 set 09:22, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

  • Sun: 06:33-19:43, zenith 13:08
  • Moon: rise 03:43 set 09:13, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

  • Sun: 06:35-19:43, zenith 13:09
  • Moon: rise 03:32 set 09:26, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for York:

  • Sun: 06:33-19:42, zenith 13:08
  • Moon: rise 03:36 set 09:19, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Easter Monday ! Gawthorpe Coal-Carrying Championships ! All Fools’ 🗩 [Note given to those sent on a fool’s errand:] On the first day of April,/ Hunt the gowk another mile (Hone 1826)

Entries for Easter Monday:

  • 23 April 1832: “Pilgrims” arrive at Leeds on Easter Monday on their way to York to hear Richard Oastler call for a 10-hour working day for mill children
  • 28 March 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing
  • 1 April 1641: Tips on bringing ewes and lambs to market in the East Riding today, Easter Monday

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    Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 919 historical serendipities (725K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,544 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,569 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Bradford, Horse, poetry, East Riding of Yorkshire ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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