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- 18 April 1906: Easter trippers to Shipley Glen cause fires on Ilkley Moor, imperilling grouse shooting later in the year
- 9 December 1932: The Jewish Chronicle mulls the Yorkshire Fascist Table Tennis Club’s decision to leave the Leeds league
- 24 June 1981: Leeds City Council declares its opposition to nuclear weapons and resolves to inform the world thereof
- 7 January 1397: On the longest of the 42 days of his carnivalesque reign, boy-bishop John de Cave of York goes on a 200-mile begging spree
- 17 May 1321: Isabella Dayvill, apostate nun, is banished to suffer silence, hunger and punishment at Handale Priory (North Riding)
- 15 November 1444: A survey of the boundaries of York
- 17 February 1801: Recent international arrivals and departures at the port of Hull
- 16 September 1821: The Rev Sydney Smith tells Lady Grey how the harvest was saved at Foston (Ryedale)
- 10 February 1821: Sydney Smith describes for Edward Davenport the view from his rectory at Foston (Ryedale)
- 3 January 1820: Following Peterloo, the Rev Sydney Smith (Foston, Ryedale) tell the Whig Edward Davenport that literacy and the populist press make parliamentary reform inevitable
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