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- 26 July 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth travels with brother William from Scarborough across the Wolds to Beverley and Hull
- 15 July 1855: At Sevastopol in the Crimea, boatswain’s mate John Sheppard of Hull wins a VC trying to row through enemy lines on an improvised explosive punt to blow up a Russian warship
- 18 February 1889: An effigy of Jack Nelson, wife-beater, is paraded with rough music through Hedon (Holderness) by a furious crowd
- 21 October 1536: Henry VIII’s herald encounters part of the Pilgrimage of Grace at Pontefract
- 21 February 1718: Elizabeth Hodgson and William Reeston are excommunicated in St. Augustine’s, Hedon for having an illegitimate child
- 10 July 1869: Bridlington sees the first prosecution under the Sea Birds Preservation Act
- 8 July 1940: Amidst rumours of German parachutists, Evelyn Cardwell of Aldborough disarms and arrests an enemy airman
- 6 July 1381: John de Erghom and others in service of the Beverley oligarchy murder William Haldane and throw him in a pit on Walker Lane
- 10 January 1761: Jane Delamoth dies and is remembered in shorthand at St Mary’s, Sculcoates (Hull)
- 9 January 1935: Returning from Bear Island, the trawler Edgar Wallace capsizes in the Humber at Hull, killing 15
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