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- 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
- 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 for the St Leger 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”
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