Now! Then! Source: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, A front view of the mill (1782)

Manufactures Society for the Encouragement of Arts. 1782. A front view of the mill. One hundred and six copper plates of mechanical machines, and implements of husbandry, approved and adopted by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and contained in their repository, in the Adelphi Buildings in the Strand, Vol. 1. Ed. Alexander Mabyn Bailey. London: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

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8 March 1768: William Evers, engineer-inventor at Swillington (Leeds), advertises his new machine: a windmill for the threshing and grinding of grain

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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 963 historical serendipities (762K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,636 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,864 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, poetry, Kingston upon Hull, Bradford, Horse ... 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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