Now! Then! Source: Myers, [Private Sam Cooper's Swagger Stick] (2015)

Andrew Myers. 2015. [Private Sam Cooper’s Swagger Stick]. Samuel Cooper and Robert Draycott – Two Soldiers from Sheffield. Ed. Chris Hobbs. Sheffield: Chris Hobbs.

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2 July 1916: Sam Cooper of Sheffield and the 7th East Yorkshire Regiment takes a branch from Fricourt Wood on the second day of the Battle of the Somme

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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 961 historical serendipities (762K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,627 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,845 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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