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- 16 November 1827: John Nicholson, “the Yorkshire Poet,” an “uncouth clownish-looking man,” appears at Bow Street charged with creating a disturbance at Drury Lane
- 22 November 1839: Bradford rejects its new vicar William Scoresby’s proposal for a church rate by a huge majority, inspiring a curious letter
- 25 December 1985: The last Christmas of John Braine, Bradford-born author of the “angry young men” bestseller, Room at the Top
- 15 October 1645: Unable to distinguish Cavaliers from Roundheads, Lord Digby’s victorious Royalist army flees the battlefield at Sherburn in Elmet and is destroyed
- 5 December 1832: James Benson (19) and his little sister, Irish strikebreakers, are set upon by a mob between Farsley and Stanningley
- 7 May 1818: London merchant Abraham Dixon writes to the Prince Regent requesting a royal warrant for Leeds manufacturer William Hirst’s superfine cloth
- 18 February 1934: Leeds Labour triggers the first rent strike against a council by announcing higher rents for well-off tenants and the prospect of free housing for ex-slum-dwellers
- 12 June 1832: William Hirst, “father of the Yorkshire woollen trade,” composes a press advert pleading for rescue from ruin
- 17 July 1849: Jane Carlyle witnesses civic Bradford protest the suppression by the French Second Republic of Garibaldi and Mazzini’s anti-clerical Roman Republic
- 20 July 1849: Jane Carlyle tells husband Thomas how she rebelled against the brutal hydrotherapy meted out by Dr William Macleod at Ben Rhydding spa, Ilkley
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