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- 13 June 1876: Christopher Jackman (sculptor) and Charles Barrett (tailor) are charged with having been in enclosed premises for an unlawful purpose at the home of the Bradford MP, Henry Ripley
- 15 June 1876: Henry Taylor, a builder, appears before the Leeds police court charged with three violations of the building byelaws
- 21 April 1838: The Northern Star (Leeds) reminds (Bradford) husbands that it is a criminal offence to sell one’s wife
- 24 August 1832: The Rev Henry Nussey – St John Rivers in Jane Eyre – attends his church’s Sunday School festival at Birstall
- 19 May 1812: An Anglican Whit walk encounters a Nonconformist one at “Briarfield” (Birstall), amid Luddites and wars with France and the US, in the imagination of Charlotte Brontë
- 4 December 1990: Paul Sykes, “heavyweight boxer, literary prizewinner and habitual criminal,” advises the nation from Wakefield on shark attack prevention
- 12 March 1900: The South African speaker Samuel Cronwright meets Marion Rowntree among other anti-Boer War activists waiting to run the gauntlet of a riotous Tory mob at Scarborough
- 21 November 1972: Asphalt executive Walter Gott of Dringhouses, charged with speeding, pleads poetry before Market Weighton magistrates
- 15 November 1972: During the public inquiry into York council’s projected inner ring road motorway through the city centre, a college lecturer calls for the new religion to be made tangible
- 7 January 1974: During his trial the Pontefract architect John Poulson discusses whether entertaining (West Riding) public servants constituted corruption