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- 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
- 19 December 1958: A London dock strike features in Dick Whittington at ready-to-wear clothing manufacturer John Barran’s, Leeds
- 21 November 1958: Norman Harding and fellow Trotskyite Labour Party members from East Leeds ambush their MP, Denis Healey, during a rigged live TV debate with his Tory neighbour, Keith Joseph
- 27 June 1933: Norman Harding (4) of Burmantofts, Leeds, meets his baby brother, Keith, for the first time
- 20 June 1825: The Wool Combers and Weavers Union of Bradford, meeting at the Roebuck Inn, signs off a poster condemning the anti-strike petition issued by the employers, meeting at the Sun
- 13 January 1893: The Independent Labour Party is born in Bradford as a result of the Liberal Party’s aversion to working class candidates and following a branding discussion
- 7 May 1831: In a spoof letter to the new and liberal William IV, a Sheffield metalworker expresses, in dialect, his hopes for the Reform Act and the election then underway
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