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- 12 October 1659: With political turmoil elsewhere, gunfire celebrating the ceremonial demarcation of Hull’s bounds is heard as “a strange and very wonderful thing”
- 10 June 1882: A satirical London magazine congratulates the Yorkshire Tannery and Boot Manufactory on its embracement of meritocracy in the appointment of directors
- 3 October 1815: In the Hull Packet, a London reader defends a preference for the exact sciences over the humanities in the exam for mastership of the Trinity House mariners’ school
- 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
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