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- 26 February 1787: William Butterworth of Leeds arrives at Grenada (West Indies) from Calabar (West Africa) on the Hudibras (Liverpool) with the survivors of a cargo of 360 slaves
- 20 September 1819: Flags and fasces at a procession from Briggate to Hunslet Moor to protest the Peterloo Massacre
- 7 July 1819: The Rev. Sydney Smith complains from Foston to the historian John Allen of summer colds
- 28 April 1812: Methodist Luddites fatally wound the textile manufacturer William Horsfall on his way home from Huddersfield market
- 6 December 1811: Sydney Smith to John Murray on “the privileges of the North”
- 5 January 1846: Writing to fellow-botanist William Borrer, Richard Spruce of Ryedale despairs of his Pyrenean mosses arousing interest amid George Hudson’s railway mania
- 19 January 1831: Mary Taylor sees her later friend Charlotte Brontë (14) join her at Roe Head School, Mirfield (Kirklees)
- 24 June 1809: Exiled from London to York, the Rev. Sydney Smith promises Lady Holland not to smite the partridge
- 1 February 1829: Jonathan Martin’s attempt to burn down York Minster is frustrated by a frolicsome chorister
- 12 March 1837: Robert Southey (poet laureate, 62) sends Charlotte Brontë (governess, 20) some career advice
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