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- 14 December 1866: At quarter to five in the morning, the signal bell rings and a voice calls out from the depths of Oaks Colliery (Barnsley), tomb to 361 men and boys in the last day and a half
- 20 March 1847: Following 73 deaths at Oaks Colliery, the Rev William Thorp tells pit owners how to avoid explosions in the Barnsley Seam
- 31 October 1602: An ailing James Kendall of Grassgarth, Weston (Otley) makes his will
- 18 May 1836: Depressed by chronic illness, Edward Burlend of Barwick-in-Elmet addresses a sleeping infant
- 30 July 1825: The Bridlington bellman Dickey Fletcher cries two keys found on the resort’s North Sands
- 1 January 1845: Approaching death, the Rev. Samuel Redhead, Vicar of Calverley (Bradford) writes in his diary of his hopes for the year
- 25 October 1536: God stands between Henry VIII’s army at Doncaster and a superior force of Catholic rebels from the Pilgrimage of Grace, according to a Tudor chronicler
- 24 September 1892: Vanity Fair profiles Lord Hawke, amateur captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and soon to be the most successful county captain ever
- 13 March 1884: Darlington iron magnate William Barningham is portrayed for a probate court from the diary of a beneficiary of his decision to leave his daughter little and his wife nothing of £450,000
- 10 March 1884: At the opening of the municipal Gasworks Committee’s exhibition of domestic appliances, Darlington’s mayor explains how increasing gas consumption will benefit ratepayers
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