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- 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
- 5 December 1859: Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew and the cousin of the then French emperor, has work for Charles Rogers, Barnsley dialect writer
- 30 May 1835: The (Tory-dominated) Leeds Corporation gives its assets to three cronies to prevent their being inherited by the new (Whiggish) town council created by the Municipal Corporations Act
- 18 October 1835: A Keighley churchwarden and constable drag one Mr Aken, a local bookseller and printer, into Sunday service
- 24 July 1926: “Leeds Corporation’s clean air strategy focuses too much on buildings and not enough on people”
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