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- 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
- 6 July 1831: “190 boats stranded in the Selby Canal by the Aire and Calder Company’s denial of water”, favouring the new Knottingley-Goole cut
- 18 September 1831: William Wallett, an unemployed Hull clown, sets out to walk from Tickhill to Doncaster in home-made clothes
- 4 May 1913: Leonora Cohen, Hunslet’s window-breaking suffragette, tells a May Day meeting on Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, that arson will gain women the vote
- 16 March 1931: “Mary Ann Harvey (Lady Sadler) goes to an early grave because of war years spent in cold, draughty Buckingham House, Headingley Lane, Leeds”
- 16 December 1914: The Imperial German Navy’s official report on the bombardment today of Scarborough by the southern cruiser group under Rear Admiral Tapken
- 16 December 1913: Michael Sadler, vice-chancellor of Leeds University, writes to his son about the successful use of students to break the Leeds Corporation Strike
- 17 March 1914: Months before murdering his lover, the painter John Currie lectures at Leeds University and has a late-night heart-to-heart with its vice-chancellor, Michael Sadler
- 6 July 1915: The Tory MP for York joins in the persecution of the professor of German at Leeds University, A.W. Schüddekopf, who is sacked and dies of a stroke
- 20 March 1848: Showman Pablo Fanque tells an inquest how he overfilled a poorly propped Leeds circus, which collapsed, killing his wife