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- 13 September 1894: J.B. Priestley descends on a cloud to the West Riding of Yorkshire
- 2 February 1806: John Yeadon helps a desperate sinner at a Methodist love-feast during the Great Revival at Yeadon
- 13 July 1820: Hannah, the disabled daughter of John Yeadon, is “insulted and assaulted”
- 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
- 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
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