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- 17 March 1190: Jewish survivors of preceding massacres and overnight suicides plead from York castle walls to be allowed to convert to Christianity
- 15 August 1805: The Sheffield volunteer infantry depart to fight Napoleon on the beaches, which one man thinks might be in the Peak District
- 9 October 2010: Following years of sexual abuse by Pakistani men, Laura Wilson (17) is murdered by Ashtiaq Ashgar (17) near Meadowhall, Rotherham, in what police call an “honour killing”
- 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
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