Now! Then! Source: Anon, Thomas Brown, a Valiant Soldier at Dettingen (1820)

Anon. 1820. Thomas Brown, a Valiant Soldier at Dettingen. In James Caulfield, Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II, Vol. 3. London: T.H. Whitely.

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27 June 1743: Tom Brown of Kirkleatham’s heroics against the French today at Dettingen (Bavaria) lead his general, George II, to grant him a silver prosthetic nose, immortalised in ballad and portrait

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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 936 historical serendipities (752K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,590 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,727 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Horse, Bradford, poetry, Kingston upon Hull ... 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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