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- 15 August 1781: The ineffably peripatetic John Wesley discovers a movable pulpit in Sheffield
- 26 June 1794: The editor of the Sheffield Register fires off a final broadside against Georgian despotism, and flees to the continent and thence to the United States
- 16 August 1842: Lancastrian plug-drawing rioters invade Skipton in an attempt to halt the mills
- 1 December 1843: Unappetising conditions in the police cells and the old lock-up at Halifax
- 19 September 1854: A multifarious railway accident in the Bramhope tunnel between Leeds and Harrogate
- 5 February 1852: A local poet recounts the fate of some of his 81 neighbours drowned this morning in Holmfirth Flood through the miserliness of the mill-owners
- 14 April 1848: The tombstone epitaph and verse for James Myers, killed on this day while working in the Bramhope Tunnel, and for his daughter, who died three weeks later
- 28 May 1574: William Ireland fails to become Rector of Harthill (South Yorkshire) because of his abysmal ignorance
- 14 March 1573: Archbishop Grindal intercedes on behalf of the commoners of Sutton-on-the-Forest (north of York) against enclosure of part of the royal Forest of Galtres
- 26 December 1570: Edmund Grindal, Puritan archbishop of York, orders the removal of rood-lofts (and their superstitious images), and the erection of pulpits
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