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- 26 December 1570: Edmund Grindal, Puritan archbishop of York, orders the removal of rood-lofts (and their superstitious images), and the erection of pulpits
- 29 August 1570: On arriving in Yorkshire, Archbishop Grindal declares war on bloody-minded folk-Catholicism
- 9 June 1758: Entry into law of the first dedicated railway enabling act, for Richard Humble and Charles Brandling’s wagonway from Middleton Colliery to the Aire at Leeds
- 25 December 1916: I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and other carols and mummery
- 29 September 1830: Tory Radical Richard Oastler writes that “free” white workers in the Bradford mills are worse off than their enslaved black counterparts in the colonies
- 1 March 1857: Job Senior, the Wharfedale Hermit and a pioneering polyphonic overtone singer, dies at Burley in Wharfedale
- 26 April 1810: Blind Jack of Knaresborough, perhaps the first professional road-builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution, dies at his home in Spofforth
- 27 March 1634: In commercial Gothic urban legend, John Bartendale, a piper, is hung and buried at York, but awakes, is rescued and pardoned, and returns to the music business
- 18 August 1812: Lady Ludd leads bread rioters through the streets of Leeds
- 20 July 1858: Haymaking with the Quakers of Bainbridge, Wensleydale
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