Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

Paul Pry. 1835. The London Joke-book. London: John Weston.

Enjoyable but misleading: for example, the anecdote about Miss Wilberforce on election night in York seems unlikely, as his eldest daughter was only six or seven in 1806. Get it:
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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 940 historical serendipities (755K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,600 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,766 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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