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- 18 July 1848: The sanitation committee of Bradford Council experience the use of iron(III) chloride and iron(II) sulphate as sewage deodorants
- 11 January 1906: Joseph Wright, Oxford professor of comparative philology and ex-donkey-boy for a Shipley quarry, discusses self-interest at the opening of Windhill Library
- 15 December 1888: Frank Kidson longs for Leeds’ musical Christmasses past
- 15 December 1888: Leeds’s most popular wassailing song, according to Frank Kidson
- 11 July 1844: The botanist James Backhouse Jnr. and colleagues walk from Settle over Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and Arncliffe Clowder to Arncliffe
- 6 July 1825: James Backhouse, a Quaker nurseryman from York, triumphs with exotic varieties at the Yorkshire Horticultural Society’s summer meeting in Leeds
- 15 September 1872: Death of “York’s last Waterloo hero”
- 27 December 1745: A correspondent from Stokesley (Hambleton) recounts the destruction of their Catholic chapel by a youthful mob during the Jacobite invasion of England
- 12 April 1706: The first four-day stagecoaches from York to London and vice versa depart from the Black Swan in each city
- 12 July 1692: Philip Wharton finances the annual donation of large numbers of English bibles and catechisms to poor children in York
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