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- 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 prize-winner, 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 plans for a 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
- 11 March 1974: Bradford councillor and would-be property developer John Foers denies trying to “Poulson” Gary Rawnsley, chair of the planning committee
- 4 May 1818: At a Radical meeting at Lydgate (Saddleworth), Samuel Bamford proposes giving the vote to women
- 4 September 1947: Conflicting hopes for the future of the nationalised coal industry, as a wildcat strike against increased hours at Grimethorpe spreads through the South Yorkshire coalfield
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