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- 11 April 1812: On a moonless night, “the army of General Ludd” attacks William Cartwright’s mill at Rawfolds (Cleckheaton) – subsequently inspiring Charlotte Brontë’s “Shirley”
- 21 April 1838: The Northern Star reminds 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, habitual criminal – advises the nation from the back garden of his Wakefield council house 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
- 23 December 1732: A hurricane hits the church at Hornsea (Holderness), revealing the parish clerk’s relationship with a noted smuggler along the coast
- 7 January 1974: During his trial the Pontefract architect John Poulson doubts whether entertaining (West Riding) public servants constituted corruption
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