Now! Then! May 26

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Then!

Yorkshire in history:

26 May 1335: Edward III imposes foreign exchange controls at Hull and various other ports to stop bad (Flemish) money driving out good
26 May 1808: The first Ascension Day on which is generally contemplated the notion that ammonites found on Whitby beach are snakes petrified by Saint Hilda, and that seabirds dip their wings in her honour when over-flying
26 May 1941: Headingley’s Shire Oak falls, legendary site of Anglo-Saxon local government between Aire and Wharfe

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

Sun: 04:40-21:16, zenith 12:58
Moon: rise 00:16 set 06:08, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Leeds:

Sun: 04:45-21:21, zenith 13:03
Moon: rise 00:21 set 06:12, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

Sun: 04:39-21:24, zenith 13:02
Moon: rise 00:28 set 06:03, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

Sun: 04:47-21:18, zenith 13:02
Moon: rise 00:17 set 06:16, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for York:

Sun: 04:42-21:20, zenith 13:01
Moon: rise 00:21 set 06:09, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

✝ Trinity Sunday

Entries for Trinity Sunday:

16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower

16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday in the minster on a desperate day during the siege of York by Parliament and the Scots, Thomas Mace hears “the most remarkable singing of psalms anywhere in these our latter ages”

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Now! Then! A Yorkshire Almanac is a book-length calendar portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 912 historical serendipities (719K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,510 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,511 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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