Now! Then! Source: Brown, York Minster Screen: Being a Specimen of the Yorkshire Dialect, as Spoken in the North Riding (1833)

George Newton Brown. 1833. York Minster Screen. Ed. Bruce Dickins and Wilfrid J. Halliday. Malton: R. Smithson.

1937 reprint by the Yorkshire Dialect Society with notes. Get it: All sources.

1 February 1829: Jonathan Martin’s attempt to burn down York Minster is frustrated by a frolicsome chorister

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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 932 historical serendipities (749K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,580 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,686 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Bradford, poetry, Horse, 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.

Toutes ces choses sont passées/ Comme l'ombre et comme le vent: se non è vero, è ben trovato.

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