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- 17 August 1778: Civil engineers John Smeaton and John Wooler explain how to use the River Hull to flush the dock which has replaced the northwest section of the city walls
- 9 September 2014: A Home Office researcher (2000-02) recalls police harassment following her documentation of child sexual abuse and institutional indifference in Rotherham
- 11 October 1776: The civil engineer John Smeaton advises Leeds Infirmary on the storage of water for washing and brewing
- 26 January 2007: John Revis, “a true Yorkshireman,” reacts to news that he bears an African-specific Y chromosome from an 18th-century ancestor
- 31 March 1943: The Archbishop of York calls in the Lords for the wartime ban on ringing church bells to be lifted or modified
- 10 June 1715: Following the accession of the Hanoverian George I, Tories ring the bells of Leeds church on the birthday of his Jacobite rival, the Old Pretender, currently plotting a comeback
- 27 March 1690: At the première of an ode celebrating the “chief agents” of the Glorious Revolution – “the city and county of York” – London-based Yorkshiremen hear of domestic decline since the days of the Roman emperor Constantine
- 13 February 1896: Now connected to mains electricity from the Whitehall Road power station, Leeds City Council sells off the town hall’s (coal-fired) generation and storage plant
- 18 September 1858: The Spectator is bowled over by the new Leeds Festival chorus’s singing of the Messiah – “the music text-book of the West Riding”
- 25 January 1859: John Lumsden, Hull-based Scottish steam entrepreneur and future mayor, addresses the local Robert Burns centenary dinner
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