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- 11 March 2020: Abigail Marshall Katung, Labour councillor and future Lord Mayor of Leeds, explains to the National Crime Agency how in 2015 she obtained a £360,000 house deposit from Nigeria
- 9 December 1967: Leeds goalkeeper Gary Sprake loses control of the ball on a snowy Anfield pitch
- 21 October 1775: A hare struggles to survive flooding on the River Aire at Leeds
- 11 October 1643: Reinforced, Ferdinando Fairfax’s Parliamentary forces break the will of the Royalist besiegers of Hull
- 15 August 1872: Voters at Knottingley (Pontefract), including newly-enfranchised workers, struggle with the secret ballot introduced in a parliamentary by-election
- 4 September 1804: James Montgomery, editor of the Sheffield Iris, explains newspaper economics to a new Mancunian proprietor
- 20 June 1887: An infant Arthur Ransome celebrates Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee at Wold Newton
- 24 December 1849: Turner writes from Chelsea to the son of his patron Walter Fawkes – dead for 24 years – thanking him for the annual goose pie from Farnley Hall
- 2 May 1812: The Otley origins of Turner’s oil of Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps in a snow storm, unveiled today to the public at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in London
- 21 May 1809: Painter Joseph Farington hears an anecdote of York architect John Carr’s 1760s Palladian conversion of Constable Burton Hall, Leyburn
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