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- 10 April 1877: Echoing Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”, John Collier tells a meeting at Walkley (Sheffield) that local Normans and Anglo-Saxons initially lived apart
- 24 April 1905: Eliza Hawley inaugurates Sheffield’s new crematorium at the City Road Cemetery
- 18 September 1904: Henry Ross of Sheffield kidnaps neighbour Jenny Whitnear’s youngest son and flees to New Jersey, but 30 years later everyone will have questions to answer
- 6 February 1906: A reporter gains exclusive access to the entombment of Horatio Bright, a Sheffield steel merchant and lapsed Jew, alongside his first wife and only son
- 16 February 1789: Thomas Paine writes to Thomas Jefferson telling of the “revolutionary” iron bridge being built to his design by the Walkers of Masbrough (Rotherham)
- 21 December 1852: Sarah Slater (19) insists that Alfred Waddington (21) had no moral right to threaten her and behead their toddler
- 1 January 1873: Sophia Constable (11) is given a 51-month custodial sentence for being party to the theft of a loaf from Francis Mackintosh at Whitby
- 28 April 1866: On appeal in London, one Mr Clark is jailed for a second time for refusing to honour his employment contract with Unwin & Rogers, Sheffield cutlers
- 26 November 1980: Following the Headingley murder of Jackie Hill, West Yorkshire Police receive a letter from Trevor Birdsall clearly identifying his friend Peter Sutcliffe of Heaton (Bradford) as the Yorkshire Ripper
- 28 January 1847: Edward Stillingfleet recounts finding a “British” chariot burial during excavation of 100 Iron Age tumuli at Arras and Hessleskew on the Wolds 30 years ago
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