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- 21 February 1835: The Spectator summarises the respective preoccupations of Leeds’ Tory and Whig establishments – partying, and preventing implementation of the child labour provisions of the Factory Act
- 20 August 1852: Leeds unveils a statue modelled by someone believed to resemble Robert Peel (RIP)
- 8 July 1840: Hairdresser John Kitching of Wellington Road, Hunslet (Leeds) misinterprets the disposal by the murderer of the corpse of rag merchant William Rothery in the Aire as the drowning of a dog
- 17 January 1865: At Leeds, temperance advocate Wilfrid Lawson MP calls for the sale of alcohol to be banned
- 11 March 1879: Calling for magistrates to lose their jurisdiction over pub licences, the teetotaller Wilfrid Lawson suggests that Tory Radical William St James Wheelhouse serves the Yorkshire Brewers’ Association
- 19 January 1905: A accident in fog on the Midland Railway between Leeds and Sheffield highlights the need for better communications technology
- 5 October 1833: The Leeds Mercury calls on local textile manufacturers not to sack the 30,000 workers who refuse to renounce trade union membership
- 12 April 1924: The Bloomsbury Group’s Amabel Williams-Ellis finds little art for art’s sake in Leeds
- 12 December 1840: A correspondent recalls in the Leeds Mercury the day in the 1770s when Beeston thought it had won a huge prize in a state lottery
- 30 August 1935: Praise for Leeds’s slum clearance schemes
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