Now! Then! Source: Channer, Minden Roses (1945)

Hugh Watson Channer. 1945. Minden Roses. Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, Vol. 90(559). London: Royal United Services Institution.

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1 August 1813: The 51st Foot wear bay leaves, not white roses, on Minden (now Yorkshire) Day, as they drive the French back over the Pyrenees

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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 934 historical serendipities (750K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,586 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,697 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.

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