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- 31 January 1838: Charles Dickens arrives in heavy snow at Greta Bridge (Startforth, North Riding)
- 7 June 1767: Far from the metropolis, the Rev Laurence Sterne finds happiness at Coxwold
- 21 August 1774: Emanuel Bowes returns to Captain John Bolton’s house in Bulmer before his master has finished disposing of his pregnant fellow-apprentice, Elizabeth Rainbow (16)
- 10 May 1784: The punishment regime at the waged spinning school for young factory girls launched today at York by the philanthropist Catharine Harrison
- 14 July 1969: A Leeds butcher buys his first car
- 15 July 1802: In the Hambleton Hills, Dorothy and William Wordsworth visit Rievaulx and see Scottish cattle travelling to London
- 27 December 1132: The foundation of Fountains Abbey by dissidents from St Mary’s, York, retold by a Victorian antiquary using Cistercian chronicles
- 13 October 1855: The Mercury publishes a letter from a chemist claiming that Leeds’s bakers adulterate their bread with a poisonous whitener
- 29 November 1880: A Sheffield inquest deals less with the death of James Brady than with the storage of his corpse
- 7 September 1905: A Scarborough policeman’s wife shows her palm to one Madame Morlee and receives some unwelcome news about one of her children
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