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- 2 January 1883: Wilson Barrett premières a pantomime version of Yorkshire hero Robinson Crusoe at the Grand, Leeds
- 4 June 1838: A lustful evangelical vicar approaches a childish parishioner in a high-church novel from London, today suppressed by the low-church Leeds Library
- 6 November 1903: Percy Broomhead fires his revolver at his neighbour’s house during a defamation dispute
- 6 October 1903: Egged on by his wife, Percy Broomhead, fishmonger, imputes the chastity of Ethel Hawkins, assistant to Mrs Bland, a neighbouring grocer at Walkley, Sheffield
- 21 March 1890: Following a miners’ strike, an anonymous Yorkshire vicar says that only parliamentary reform will bring industrial peace
- 21 March 1880: The surgeon Thomas Pridgin Teale tells Leeds fathers to get involved in their children’s early years
- 14 June 1876: The family of surgeon Thomas Pridgin Teale encounters a rabid dog in Headingley
- 22 December 1857: With only a small clock planned for Cuthbert Brodrick’s over-budget town hall, Leeds Council absents itself from a talk by Edmund Beckett, designer of the mechanism for Big Ben
- 18 August 1889: Eight survivors of prostate surgery present themselves to a meeting of the BMA in Leeds
- 29 December 1921: On the death of the Huddersfield-born Cambridge professor of pathology, G.S. Woodhead, his colleague Clifford Allbutt recalls his arrival from the north
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