Yorkshire on Monday 8 June 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 8 June 0793: Alcuin of York, a leading light of the Carolingian Renaissance, reflects in a poem on the devastation this day of Lindisfarne by Vikings
- 8 June 1561: A York official explains why textile manufacturing has left his city for the West Riding
- 8 June 1646: As the First English Civil War draws to a close, Mrs Eyre rages at Mr for criticising her clothes
- 8 June 1679: At death’s door, Brian Bentley, the Halifax Poet, refuses a cap unless it be a barley-cap
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:29-21:30, zenith 13:00
- Moon: rise 01:24 set 12:51, last quarter
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:34-21:36, zenith 13:05
- Moon: rise 01:29 set 12:56, last quarter
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:28-21:39, zenith 13:04
- Moon: rise 01:29 set 12:54, last quarter
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:36-21:33, zenith 13:04
- Moon: rise 01:29 set 12:56, last quarter
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:31-21:35, zenith 13:03
- Moon: rise 01:28 set 12:54, last quarter
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