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- 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
- 6 June 1817: A government agent-provocateur on his way to a meeting of pro-democracy radicals at Thornhill encounters Thomas Murray, weaver and reform activist
- 28 July 1348: Archbishop Zouche writes from Cawood Palace to York ordering action against a great pestilence threatening England – the Black Death
- 2 July 1916: Sam Cooper of Sheffield and the 7th East Yorkshire Regiment takes a branch from Fricourt Wood on the second day of the Battle of the Somme
- 6 May 1744: John Nelson, one of the first Methodist preachers, finds the welcome from gaoler James Barber at Leeds Gaol superior to the accommodation
- 30 June 1828: A toddler encounters her father’s opium in their home on Chapel Lane, Hull
- 13 March 1853: Army veteran John Sykes takes a blunderbuss to Hiram Yeadon during a feud between Wesleyan and Reformer Methodists at Yeadon
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