Yorkshire Almanac Source: Chambers's Journal, An Unknown Page in History (1861)

Chambers’s Journal. 1861. An Unknown Page in History, Vol. 15. London: W. and R. Chambers Publishers.

The Yorkshire militia massacres protestors at Hexham. Get it: All sources.

9 March 1761: The North Riding Militia – “the Hexham Butchers” – massacre 45 anti-conscription rioters at Hexham, Northumberland

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Place-People-Play: Childcare (and the Kazookestra) on the Headingley/Weetwood borders next to Meanwood Park.

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The Yorkshire Almanac is a day-by-day calendar, featuring modern happenings in the heavens and on earth and some 971 historical serendipities (775K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,705 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,980 subjects. Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling, composing and coding the Yorkshire Almanac online at bedtime since 2021, and it's now available in paperback. Also: Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder Performs the Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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