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- 30 April 1872: MPs discuss drink, proverbial curse of the working class, with James Wetherell, Leeds’ chief constable
- 23 January 1642: Entering Hull to claim it for parliament from Charles I, young John Hotham receives divine warning of his and his father’s acephalous fate
- 23 May 1889: The poet Edward Carpenter writes of walking into the polluted hell that is Sheffield and finding steel producer Charles Wardlow curiously engaged
- 21 April 1821: John Cockin, Holmfirth minister, describes the remains of Richard Frankland’s late 17th century dissenting academy at Rathmell, Craven
- 21 April 1883: Peter Inchbald observes nightingales at Harrogate for the first time, but their popularity is their undoing
- 19 March 1866: Corn-merchant J.R. Mortimer of Driffield opens a prehistoric burial mound on the Wolds and suggests a link to ancient Greek descriptions of Balearic rites
- 19 March 1734: The dying son of a gypsy is baptised at Carlton in Cleveland
- 2 January 1883: Wilson Barrett premières a pantomime version of Yorkshire hero Robinson Crusoe at the Grand, Leeds
- 4 June 1838: The low-church Leeds Library censors a high-church novel in which a shady young evangelical clergyman wins the affections of a wealthy young widow
- 6 November 1903: Percy Broomhead fires his revolver at his neighbour’s house during a defamation dispute
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