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- 19 June 1984: On the day after the Battle of Orgreave, the Labour MP for Doncaster North contrasts police behaviour towards striking miners under the (Conservative) Heath and Thatcher governments
- 28 February 2003: After 19 years in prison, Anthony Steel’s conviction for the 1977 Bradford murder of Carol Wilkinson is quashed due to failings by West Yorkshire Police
- 15 October 1951: On the eve of the general election, a Times leader summarises the latest Rowntree report, which details startling reductions in absolute poverty in York under the welfare state
- 14 May 1604: One of the compensatory “northern poems” registered today by Dr John Favour, Vicar of Halifax, to celebrate the union under James of Scotland and England a year ago
- 26 May 1335: Edward III imposes foreign exchange controls at Hull and various other ports to stop bad (Flemish) money driving out good
- 3 May 1343: Short of cash for his French wars, Edward III asks what the effect on his rental income will be of January storms and coastal erosion at Ravenser Odd (Holderness)
- 9 January 1659: The poet Andrew Marvell reacts emotionally to his nomination as “a fitting man to take our wishes unto parliament house” at a hustings of the “free and lightened voters” of Hull
- 20 December 1966: Greek-Cypriot cook and artist Stass Paraskos appears before Leeds magistrates charged with obscenity under the Vagrancy Act 1838
- 23 March 1743: His monstrous penis today having terminated its earthly mission, Lancelot Blackburne, (absentee) Archbishop of York, bids his ladies farewell
- 27 June 1778: Civil engineer John Smeaton reviews the construction for London Trinity House of two lighthouses on Spurn Point, eroding from seawards and growing southwards into the mouth of the Humber
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