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- 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
- 1 October 1399: Henry IV pardons the hermit Matthew Danthorpe, who he found building an unlicensed chapel when he landed at Ravenspurn on his way to dethroning Richard II
- 6 January 1862: “Flint Jack” of Whitby, an antiquarian forger, arrives at a London lecture on the ancient flint implements of Yorkshire to demonstrate knapping
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