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- 27 July 1976: Fast bowler Wayne Daniel on being serenaded by fans following the West Indies’ Test series victory over England today at Headingley
- 25 June 1808: Dr Campbell, lodging above a chandler’s on Leeds Kirkgate, advertises the results of his treatment of anorexia, Napoleonic wounds, and all other known illnesses
- 11 February 1448: Henry VI liberates York from Yorkshire
- 27 June 1925: Tolkien on the increasing importance of language within Leeds’ English department during his readership in the early 1920s
- 26 November 1941: Tolkien on the introduction by Professor George S. Gordon of lightheartedness to dour Yorkshire students of English literature at Leeds in the 1910s
- 15 May 1890: A Liverpudlian company – now ruined – finds on appeal that the consent of its Halifax lender isn’t needed to sue the Sowerby Bridge flour coop for patent piracy
- 16 February 1114: The morbidly obese Archbishop Thomas II of York ignores medical advice and dies chaste, unlike an 18th century successor
- 27 February 1390: Robert de Ellerbeck, mercer, walks into York Council on the Ouse bridge with a question for Ralph del See
- 14 February 1482: Robert Rede Gyrdewler tells the York authorities of pub canvassing in favour of Thomas Wrangwith, the future Richard III’s candidate for mayor
- 2 October 1880: The Leeds Mercury reproduces a typographical intemperance tree from the 1840s origins of the Band of Hope
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