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- 6 November 1830: Bodysnatchers strike at Fulford, York
- 16 September 1858: Augustus Duncombe, dean of York, reopens St Helen’s, Stonegate, York, following a thoroughly Victorian restoration
- 26 October 1869: Joshua Rowntree, a young solicitor, joins the party trying to rescue survivors of the wreck of the Ellen south of Scarborough Spa
- 24 September 1862: Having bet his shirt on blockade-running to the Confederates, Hull mayor Zachariah Pearson tells of his ruin by Lombard Street and Abraham Lincoln
- 30 July 1820: Primitive Methodists try to disrupt the traditional Maudlin Fair football match between Hedon and Preston (Holderness)
- 5 August 1661: John Ray is told that a knocked-through lighting niche in the Anglo-Saxon crypt under Ripon minster is a chastity test device
- 5 August 1661: John Ray visits Copgrove (Harrogate), the pauper’s spa
- 4 August 1661: The tenant of St Robert’s cave, Knaresborough, tells the parson-naturalist John Ray the legend of the saint and the cripple
- 14 January 1472: Shipments of wallpaper(?) from Schiedam (Holland) pass through Hull customs
- 30 July 1661: John Ray encounters the effigy of a tragic Inuit in his canoe at Hull Trinity House
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