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- 18 March 1647: Penistone Puritans request the Committee for Plundered Ministers to remove their vicar, Christopher Dickinson, “a man of scandalous life and conversation”
- 24 December 1777: Christmas Eve at Wuthering Heights, as told by housekeeper Nelly Dean
- 23 September 1844: Early Geordie tourists depart for York in a special train
- 1 August 1846: Three Halifax residents appear in court charged by the Earl of Scarborough with treating Shroggs Wood as common land
- 3 August 1846: Aged one month, Frances Jane Campbell becomes the latest Leeds victim of the opiate epidemic
- 21 May 1108: Archbishop Gerald of York dies reading Roman astrology
- 18 December 1802: A stereotypical comedy Yorkshireman – “heir to a wealthy clothier” – sings during tonight’s Covent Garden première of Thomas Dibdin’s “Family Quarrels”
- 23 December 1838: Showman Old Jemmy Wild’s body travels by caravan from Bradford to Huddersfield, followed by Billy the fortune-telling pony and Jerry the bloodhound
- 9 January 1827: Writing from Halifax, the comedian Charles Mathews longs for Leeds
- 19 December 1826: Charles Mathews, comedian, awaiting his fellow actors at York for the evening performance, receives some unwelcome news from a newly arrived foreigner
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