Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 366 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

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10–11 The Shambles 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis 15th The King's Hussars 1734 British general election 1780 British general election 1794 Treason Trials 1807 United Kingdom general election 1807 United Kingdom general election in Yorkshire 1826–1837 cholera pandemic 1831 United Kingdom general election 1832 United Kingdom general election 1835 United Kingdom general election 1842 general strike 1846–1860 cholera pandemic 1851 United Kingdom census 1863–1875 cholera pandemic 1865 United Kingdom general election 1880 United Kingdom general election 1906 United Kingdom general election 1931 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team 1936 World Table Tennis Championships 1945 general election 1950 general election 1951 general election 1964 United Kingdom general election 1966 Kingston upon Hull North by-election 1966 United Kingdom general election 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike 1973 oil crisis 1974–1979 Labour government 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike 1992–93 UEFA Champions League 1st Baron Hawke 1st White Cloth Hall 2nd Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 3rd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom) 3rd The King's Own Hussars 3rd White Cloth Hall 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot 5th Royal Irish Lancers 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot 7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 80th parallel north 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 9th Parliament of Elizabeth I (October 1597-February 1598) À la lanterne A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain A Word to the Wise A Yorkshire Tragedy Lloyd, A.L. (1908-1982) A1237 road A660 road Aaron of Lincoln (ca. 1125-1186) Abbey Abbey Wood Abdominal surgery Abdulmejid I Bywater, Abel (1795-1873) Aberford Abijah of Judah Hainsworth, Abimelech (1769-1836) Abolitionism Abolitionism in the United Kingdom Abortifacient Abortion Abraham Balme, Abraham (1706-96) Abraham Darby I Pryme, Abraham de la (1671-1704) Abraham Lincoln Sharp, Abraham (1653-1742) Abscess Absolute monarchy Abstinence Abstinence pledge Abstrupus Danby Academic freedom Academy Acca of Hexham Accent (sociolinguistics) Accident Accounting Accumulator (energy) Achillea millefolium Acklam, Ryedale Ackton Ackworth, West Yorkshire Acomb, North Yorkshire Acrobatics Act for Punishment of Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars 1536 Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601 Act of Uniformity 1549 Act of Uniformity 1558 Act of Uniformity 1662 Acting Acts of the Apostles Acts of Union 1707 Actuarial science Adam and Eve Eyre, Adam (1614-61) Addiction Adit Admiralty Adobe Photoshop Adolf Hitler Adulterant Adultery Advance-fee scam Adventism Advertising Aesop Aesop's Fables Aesthetics Affirmation (law) Affordable housing Africa Afro-Caribbean people Agape feast Agatha Christie Aggressive panhandling Agistment Agricultural machinery Agriculture Agrostemma githago Aidan of Lindisfarne (?-651) Ainsty Aintree Racecourse Air Ministry Air pollution Air Raid Precautions Aircraft Aire and Calder Navigation Airedale Airstrike Airton Aislaby, Scarborough Alabaster Bennett, Alan (1934-) Alberche Schüddekopf, Albert Wilhelm (1861-1916) Alcohol (drug) Alcohol intoxication Alcoholism Alcuin of York (ca. 735-804) Aldborough, North Yorkshire Aldbrough St John Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire Alderney cattle Aldersgate Aldfield Aldro Aldwarke Main Colliery Douglas-Home, Alec (1903-1995) Leslie, Alexander, 1st Earl of Leven Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Alexander Thomson (Baron of the Exchequer) Wilson, Alexander (1803-46) Alexandra of Denmark Alexis Jay Cooke, Alf Austin, Alfred Alfred Mynn Alfred Newton Alfred Sutro Algae Algebra Algiers Alite All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series) All Hallows' Church, Harthill All Saints Church, Darfield All Saints' Church, North Street, York All Saints' Day All Souls' Day All the Year Round Allerston Allerton, West Yorkshire Allhallowtide Allotment (gardening) McCoist, Ally(1962-) Almanac Almondbury Alms Almshouse Alojzy Ehrlich Alpaca Altered state of consciousness Alternating current Altona, Hamburg Alum Alverthorpe Amabel Williams-Ellis Amateur sports Amateur status in first-class cricket Ambleside American Civil War American Revolutionary War Americas Amharic Wrigley, Ammon Ammonites Ammunition Amnesia Amsterdam Anabaptism Anal sex Anatomy Anatomy Act 1832 Ancient Carthage Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Andrew Carnegie Marvell, Andrew (1621-78) Marvell (Senior), Andrew Andrew Norfolk Andrew the Apostle Andrew Trollope Andy Goram Andy Roberts (cricketer) Angles (tribe) Anglican sacraments Anglicanism Anglo-Dutch Wars Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain Anglo-Saxons Anglo-Scandinavian Anglo-Zulu War Angola Angora goat Angry young men Animal attack Animal fat Animal husbandry Animal pound Animal slaughter Animal welfare Tongue-tie Ann Walker (landowner) Anna Abulafia Brontë, Anne (1820-49) Lister, Anne (1791-1840) Anne of Denmark Oldfield, Anne (1683-1730) Anne I (1665-1714) Besant, Annie Anorexia (symptom) Anorexia nervosa Anselm of Canterbury Antártica Chilena Province Antera, Duke Ephraim (ca. 1735-ca. 1809) Anthemis arvensis Anthony Ashley-Cooper Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Anthony Barber Anthony Crosland Anthony Kershaw Anthony St Leger (British Army officer) Anthrax Anthriscus sylvestris Anthropology Anti-aircraft warfare Anti-clericalism Anti-Corn Law League Anti-imperialism Anti-Slavery Society (1823–1838) Antigua Antiquities Antisemitism Anton Chekhov Antwerp Apennine Mountains Apoplexy Apostasy Apparitional experience Apperley Bridge Apple Appleton Wiske Apprenticeship Aquiline nose Arabic Aramaic Arbitral tribunal Arbitration Arch bridge Archaeological excavation Archaeology Archbishop of Armagh Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of York Archery Archie Christie Archimedes' screw Architectural acoustics Architecture Archive Arctic Ocean Arcturus Area bombardment Argentina anserina Aria edulis Aristide Cavaillé-Coll arithmetic Armand Trousseau Armistice Day Armistice of 11 November 1918 Armitage Bridge Armley Armley asbestos disaster Armley Hippo Armthorpe Army Reserve (United Kingdom) Arncliffe Clowder Arncliffe, North Yorkshire Arnold Bennett Arranged marriage Arras culture Arras, East Yorkshire Arrow Arrowhead arsenic Arsenic poisoning Arsenic trioxide Arson Art therapy Arthington Arthington Hall Arthington railway station Arthington Viaduct Arthritis Arthur Bell Nicholls Arthur Dorman Arthur Horner (trade unionist) Arthur Ingram Ingram, Arthur (ca. 1598-1655) Kekewich, Arthur (1832-1907) Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805) Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Ransome, Arthur (1884-1967) Arthur Rowntree Sullivan, Arthur Tapken, Arthur (1864-1945) Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Artichoke Artillery Arts administration Asbestos Asbestos and the law Ascot Racecourse Ashkenazi Jews Ashton-under-Lyne Askern Askern Main Colliery Askrigg Asphyxia Asplenium ceterach Assizes Association football Association for the Protection of Sea-Birds Asthma Astrology Astronomy At Her Majesty's pleasure At Last the 1948 Show Atheism Atlantic Ocean Atlantic puffin Atlantic slave trade Attempted murder Attercliffe Attlee ministry Attorney General for England and Wales Auction August Strindberg Auguste Comte Augustinians Augustus Duncombe Augustus Leopold Egg Augustus Wall Callcott Auk Aurochs Northern lights Auschwitz concentration camp Austhorpe Australia Austwick Autobiography Autocracy Autodidacticism Automation Autopsy Avebury Avitianus Axe Azerley Ælla of Northumbria Æthelburh of Kent Æthelfrith Baby bottle Stag night Bacillus anthracis Back-to-back house Bacon Badger Badger-baiting Badsworth Baffin Bay Bagley, West Yorkshire Bagpipes Baildon Bainbridge, North Yorkshire Bainton, East Riding of Yorkshire Baiting (blood sport) Baitings Reservoir Bakery Bakestone Balby Balearic Islands Baleen Ballad Ballast Balliol College, Oxford Ballistic missile Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Balne Balochistan, Pakistan Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400–1800) Baltic Sea Bamburgh Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1690-1758) Band of Hope Band Street, Leeds Banjo Banjo (chocolate bar) Bank of England Bankruptcy Banns of marriage baptism Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32 Baptists Barbados Castle, Barbara (1910-2002) Barbary pirates Barber barbiturate Barden Old Hall Barden Tower Barden, Craven Barden, Richmondshire Bare-knuckle boxing Barker's Pool Barkerend barley Barnard Castle Barnbow Barnbow Hall Barnburgh Barnburgh Main Colliery Barnby Furnace Barnoldswick Barnsley Barnsley Main Colliery Baron of the Exchequer Barrister Barrow Colliery Barrow upon Humber Bartholomew Fair Bartholomew the Apostle Barton-upon-Humber Bartsia alpina Barwick-in-Elmet Basket Baslow Bastille Bath, Somerset Bathing Bathing machine Bathroom Bathtub Batley Batley Carr battle Battle of Abukir (1801) Battle of Agincourt (1415) Battle of Albert (1916) Battle of Alexandria Battle of Austerlitz Battle of Copenhagen (1801) Battle of Culloden Battle of Dettingen Battle of Famars Battle of Flodden Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Fulford Battle of Hastings Battle of Hatfield Chase Battle of Heptonstall Battle of Khotyn (1673) Battle of Le Cateau Battle of Leipzig Battle of Magdala Battle of Marston Moor Battle of Minden Battle of Minorca (1756) Battle of Myton Battle of Orgreave Battle of Orthez Battle of Preston (1715) Battle of Quiberon Bay Battle of Saltley Gate Battle of Seacroft Moor Battle of Sherburn in Elmet Battle of Stamford Bridge Battle of Talavera Battle of Tankersley Moor Battle of the Pyrenees Battle of the Somme Battle of the Standard (22 August 1138) Battle of Toulouse (1814) Battle of Towton Battle of Trafalgar Battle of Vitoria Battle of Waterloo Battle of York (867) Battlecruiser Bavaria Bayonet BBC Beachgoing beacon Bean bear Bear Island (Norway) Bear pit Beating the bounds Beckett's Bank Bedale Bede (672/3-735) Bedfordshire Bee Beef Beeldenstorm beer Beerhouse Act 1830 Beeston, Leeds Beeswax Beggarington Begging Bel canto Belgium Bell Bell tower Bell-ringer Bellows Ben Rhydding Ben Tillett Benedict of York Benedictines Benefit society Benguela Province Benidorm Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Gott Benjamin Henry Latrobe Benjamin Martin (lexicographer) Newton, Benjamin (1762-1830) Benjamin Pickard Sadler, Benjamin Bentley Colliery Bentley, South Yorkshire Berbers Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan Berkhamsted Bernard Kenyon Bernard of Clairvaux Bernicia Berry Brow Colgrave, Bertram (1889-1968) Berwick-upon-Tweed Bessemer process Bethlem Royal Hospital Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate Beveridge Report Beverley Beverley Minster Bible Biblical canon Biblical literalist chronology Biblical Sabbath Bibliotheca historica bicycle Bidasoa Bier Bierley, West Yorkshire Bigamy Bight of Biafra Bigod Bill of Rights 1689 Bilsdale Bilton-in-Ainsty Binding of Isaac Bingley Bingley Grammar School Biology Bipolar disorder bird Bird of prey Bird trapping Bird vocalization Birdwatching Birdwell, South Yorkshire Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire Birmingham Birmingham Political Union Birstall, West Yorkshire Birstwith Birth control Birthday bishop Bishop of Durham Bishop of Sodor and Man Bishops' Wars Bishopthorpe Bishopthorpe Palace Bittern Black Act 1723 Black Death Black guillemot black hair Black horse Black people Black Sea Black tea Blackburn blackface Blackmail Blacksmith Blackstone Edge Blair Athol (1861-82) Blasphemy blast furnace Bleeding Blenheim (1783 ship) Blizzard blond Blood sport Bloomery Bloomsbury Group Blubber Blunderbuss Boar Lane Board of guardians Board of Longitude boarding school Boat Boatswain Bodiam Castle Body donation Body snatching Boer republics Bohemia Bohemian waxwing Bolckow, Vaughan Bolling Hall, Bradford Bolsterstone Bolton Abbey Bolton Abbey (village) Bolton Bridge Bolton Priory Bomber Bond (finance) Bone crusher Bone fracture Bone meal Bonfire Bonnell Thornton Book Book of Common Prayer Book of Common Prayer (1549) Book of Common Prayer (1552) Book of Esther Book of Genesis Book of Isaiah Book of Jeremiah Book of Job Book of Numbers Book of Proverbs Book of Revelation Books of Chronicles Bootham Boothferry Boothferry Bridge Boothtown Boredom Borough Borough of Harrogate Borough of Pendle Boroughbridge Bosporus Botany Botswana Bounty (reward) Bourne, Lincolnshire Bow Church Bow Street Magistrates' Court Bowes Bowhead whale Bowling, Bradford Boxing Bradfield College Bradfield, South Yorkshire Bradford Bradford Beck Bradford Canal Bradford Cathedral Bradford City A.F.C. Bradford City Hall Bradford City stadium fire Bradford Dale (Yorkshire) Bradford Institute of Technology Bradford Labour Union Bradford Mechanics Institute Bradford Moor Barracks Bradford Observer Bradford quarter Bradford Technical College Brafferton, North Yorkshire Brain (journal) Bramham, West Yorkshire Bramhope Bramhope Tunnel Bramley, Leeds Brandling of Newcastle Brandy Brontë, Branwell (1817-48) Brazil Breach of contract Breach of the peace bread Bream Breastfeeding Bremen Brewery Brewing Bribery Brick Bricklayer Brickworks Bridge Bridgehouses railway station Bridges of York Bridgetown Bridlington Bridlington Priory Briercliffe Brigantes Brigantia (ancient region) Briggate Brighouse Brighton Brightside, Sheffield Britannia Britannicus (play) British Army British brass band British dance band British Empire British Expedition to Abyssinia British Expeditionary Force (World War I) British fascism British folk revival British Indian Army British Iron Age British Medical Association British national identity British Nigerian British Pakistanis British Steel (1967–1999) British Union of Fascists broadside ballad Brockholes Brockley Whins Brontë family Brontë Parsonage Museum Bronze Brotherton Brough Brough railway station Brough with St Giles Broughton, Lancashire Broughton, Lincolnshire brown hair Brut Chronicle Bubonic plague Buckingham House, 41 Headingley Lane, Leeds Buckingham Palace Budapest Building material Bull Bull-baiting Bullet Bulmer, North Yorkshire Bunker Hill, West Virginia burglary Burial Burke and Hare murders Burley in Wharfedale Burley Woodhead Burley, Leeds Burmantofts Burngreave Burning of women in England Burniston Burnley Burnsall Burton Agnes Bury, Greater Manchester Burying in Woollen Acts Butcher Butomus butter Butterfly Buxton Byelaw Byland Abbey Ça Ira Cabbage Cabo de Hornos, Chile Cadeby Main Colliery Cadeby, South Yorkshire Cadwallon ap Cadfan Caesarean section Cain and Abel Cairn Calabar Calcium Calcium hypochlorite Calcium oxide Calderdale Caledonia Calends Calico Heather Calverley Calverley Old Hall Calvinism Camberwell Cambridge Cambridge Camden Society Cambridgeshire Camel Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Campanology Campanula rotundifolia Camping Canada Canal Cancer Candide candle Candlemas Sweets Cannibalism cannon Cannon Hall Cannula Canoe Canonization Cantabrian Mountains Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral Canterbury–York dispute Canute IV of Denmark Cape Colony Capel Curig Caphouse Colliery capital punishment Capture of Fricourt Capture of Wakefield car Caracalla Carboniferous Limestone Cardiac cycle Cardiff Carding Cardiovascular disease Caribbean Sea Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich Carlecotes Carleton-in-Craven Carlisle Carlton in Cleveland Carlton, Rothwell Carmelites Carnegie library Carnival Carol (music) Caroline of Brunswick Carolingian Renaissance Carpentry carriage cart Cartel des Gauches Cartography Cassius Dio Cast iron Caste Castel Sant'Angelo Castle Howard Castleford Castration Cat Cat o' nine tails Cataractonium Catarrh Catechism Catenary Caterpillar Cappe, Catherine (1744-1821) Cathedral Catherine Booth Medici, Catherine de Catherine of Aragon Catherine of Braganza Catholic art Catholic Association Catholic Church Catholic Church in the United Kingdom Catholic emancipation Catterick Bridge Catterick, North Yorkshire Cattle Cavalier cavalry Cavendish Square Cawood (Selby) Cawood Castle Cawthorne Celestial navigation Celibacy Celsius Celtic Christianity Celtic languages Celtic Revival Cement Cemetery Censorship Central Africa Central heating Cereal Cerebral palsy Ceremonial mace Cetshwayo Chaise Chalk Chamber of commerce Chancellor of the Exchequer Change ringing Changi Prison Chapel Allerton Chapel-en-le-Frith Charcoal Charcoal burner Chariot Chariot burial charity (practice) Charity fraud Charivari Charlatan Charlemagne Abbey, Charles (ca 1836-1901) Yate, Charles Allix Lavington (1872-1914) Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan Bradlaugh, Charles Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk Charles Clerke Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham Charles Edward Stuart Ellerman, Charles F. (?-?) Charles Grey Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle Charles I (1600-49) Charles II (1630-85) Charles Incledon Charles IX of France Jackson, Charles (1809-1882) Charles James Apperley Jenkinson, Charles (1887-1949) Brandling, Charles John (1769-1826) Charles Kingsley Knowlton, Charles Tweedale, Charles L. (?-1944) Lucas, Charles (1613-1648) Lupton, Charles (1855-1935) Maitland, Charles Mathews, Charles (1776-1835) Charles Milner Charles Oman Peace, Charles (1832-1879) Charles Piazzi Smyth Charles Rogers (Barnsley dialect writer) Hawtrey, Charles Sleech (1780-1831) Thackrah, Charles (1795-1833) Charles VI of France Charles Wardlow Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Watts, Charles Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam Charles Wetherell Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855) Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793) Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland Charlotte Sainton-Dolby Chartism Chastity Cheapside Cheese Chemical weapon Chemical weapons in World War I Chemistry Chequers Cheshire Cheviot Hills Chicago Chichester chicken Child Child abandonment Child abuse Child Ballads child labour Child marriage Child neglect Child sexual abuse Child support Childbirth Chile Chimney Chimney fire Chimney sweep China Chivalric romance choir Cholera Chorister (horse) Chrism Christian Almer Christian Israelite Church Christian mysticism Spencer, Christiana (?-1737) Christianity Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England Christianization Christmas Christmas and holiday season Christmas card Christmas carol Christmas club Christmas dinner Christmas Eve Christmas pudding Beckett, Christopher (1777-1847) Christopher Colbourne Graham Christopher Danby Hildyard, Christopher (1615-94) Christopher Reid (writer) Richardson, Christopher (1618-98) Chromolithography Chronicle of Melrose Chronology Chronology of the Bible church architecture Church bell Church grim Church music Church of All Saints, Bingley Church of England Church of Scotland Church of St John the Baptist, Mexborough Church rate London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews Churchyard Cincinnati Circus Cistercian nuns Cistercians City of Bradford City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council City of Leeds City of London City of Sheffield City of York City of York Council City status in the United Kingdom Civil defense Civil disorder Civil engineering Civil law (legal system) Civil registration Claire Rae Randall Clairvaux Abbey Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 Clara Novello Clare College, Cambridge Class conflict Class discrimination Class prejudice Classical order Classical radicalism Wheelhouse, Claudius Galen (1826-1909) Clay Clayton, West Yorkshire Cleanliness Cleckheaton Clement Attlee Clergy Cleveland (county) Cleveland Hills Cleveland, Yorkshire Cliffe, Selby Allbutt, Clifford (1836-1925) Clifton, York Climate Clive Lloyd Clock Clog Clothing Clothing industry Clover Clown Club-man Coach (carriage) Coal Coal gas Coal measures Coal mining Coal mining in the United Kingdom Coalbed methane Coastal erosion Coastal flooding Coastal management Cobblestone Coble Coccinellidae Cock Beck Cock throwing Cockade Cockfight Coen brothers Coffee Coffeehouse Coffin Cohabitation Coifi Coin Coin Act 1696 Coitus interruptus Coke (fuel) Cold Cold War Coldstream Guards Coley Hall Coley, West Yorkshire College of advanced technology (United Kingdom) Collegiate church Colley Cibber Colne Colne Bridge Colne Bridge Mill Colonialism Colonisation of Africa Colony of Jamaica Columbidae comedy comedy (drama) comet Comic opera Commedia dell'arte Commentarii de Bello Gallico commerce Committee for Compounding with Delinquents Committee for Plundered Ministers Commodity money Common cold Common land Common law Common Law Procedure Act 1854 Common guillemot Common nightingale Commonweal (newspaper) Commonwealth of England Communist Party of Great Britain Community Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire Company of Merchant Adventurers of London Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York Complaint Composition (fine) Compulsory purchase in England and Wales Compulsory purchase order Confederate States of America Conflagration Congleton Congregational church Congress of Paris (1856) Congreve rocket Conium Conoclinium coelestinum Conscience conscription Conservative Party (1834-) Consett Consistory court Consol (bond) Conspiracy theory Constable Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby Constantine the Great Constantinople Constitutional Club, Scarborough Construction Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 Convent Conventicle Conventicle Act 1664 Conversion of Paul the Apostle Conveyancing Convicts in Australia Convocations of Canterbury and York Convolvulus cooking Cooper (profession) Copenhagen Copgrove Copper Copper extraction Cordwainer Corf Coriolanus Cormorant Corn Laws (1815-46) Vermuyden, Cornelius (1595-1677) Cornet Cornwall Coronary artery disease Corporal punishment Corporate entertainment Corporate manslaughter Corporate tax Corporation Act 1661 Corruption Corruption in local government Cortonwood Corvus Cosmetics Cottage Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire Cottingley, Bradford cotton Cotton Gargrave Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 Cotton wool Council house Council of the North Counter-Reformation Counterfeit money County Championship County cricket County Durham County of Holland County town Course of Positive Philosophy court Court of Appeal (England and Wales) Court of Chancery Court of King's Bench (England) Court of Probate Court of Wards and Liveries court-martial Covenanters Covent Garden Coventry Cover-up Covered carriage truck Coxwold Cracoe Crane (bird) Crane (machine) Crassula Crataegus monogyna Craven Craven Basin Craven District Craven Fault System Crayke Cream Creation myth Creationism Credit Cricket Cricket in England Crigglestone Colliery Crime Crimea Crimean War Criminal law Cripple Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Crisis of the Third Century Crispin and Crispinian Critias Crookes Crookes Cemetery Crop Crosland Moor Cross Gates Cross pattée Crosspool Crosstalk Croston Crowd Crowd counting Crowdfunding Crowle, Lincolnshire Crown Court crucible steel cruelty to animals Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 Crusades Crushing (execution) Crypt Cuckold Cudworth Junction Cudworth railway station Cudworth, South Yorkshire Cue sports Cullingworth Cult image Cumberland Cumbria Cundall, North Yorkshire Curates Residence Bill 1808 Curlew Currency in circulation Custard Customs declaration Cuthbert Cuthbert Brodrick cutlery Cutter (boat) Cycle of poverty cycling Cycling UK Cyprus Cyril Garbett Ransome, Cyril (1851-1897) Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Czechoslovakia Daguerreotype Daily Herald (United Kingdom) Daily Mail Dale Dike Reservoir Dalek Dalton Dame Janet Smith Review Danby, North Yorkshire dance Daniel Defoe Daniel O'Connell Daniel Prenn Danish attacks on Norman England Darfield Main Colliery Darfield, South Yorkshire Darjeeling Dark room (sexuality) Dark skin Darlington Darlington Iron Company Darnall Darnall New Ground Lupton, Darnton (1806-73) Darrington, West Yorkshire Dartford Darton Darton Colliery Darwinism Das Kapital David Aitken (minister) David Conway (music historian) Ferrier, David (1843-1928) David Garrick David Hartley (the Younger) Hill, David (1953-) David Hume David I of Scotland Kitchen, David (1957-) David Livingstone David Murray (Scottish businessman) Davis Strait Davy lamp Daw Green de Havilland DH.60 Moth Deaf-mute Deafness Dearne Valley death Death by burning Death of David Oluwale Death of James Cook Death threat Debasement Debt Debtors' prison decapitation Declaration of Indulgence (1672) Declaration of Indulgence (1687) Deed Deeds registration Deer Deer hunting Defamation Deforestation Deformity Deira Delia radicum Delph Demi-culverin democracy Demonym Denby Dale Denholme Denis Healey Denmark Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford Depression (mood) Deputy lieutenant Derby Derbyshire Deryck Murray Design Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812 Devil Devon Dewsbury Dewsbury and District Hospital Dewsbury Beck Dewsbury Minster Diana (1840 ship) Rigg, Diana (1938-2020) Diarrhea Diary Dick Whittington and His Cat Dies irae Diggle, Greater Manchester Digitalis Digley Reservoir Diodorus Siculus Diogenes Diphtheria Diplopia Dipsacus fullonum Direct current Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales) Dirge Disability Disability benefits Discrimination based on skin color Disease Dishforth Dismemberment Disputation Dispute resolution Dissection Dissenting academies Dissolution of the monasteries Distinguished Conduct Medal Divination Divine providence Divine retribution Divine right of kings Divinity Divorce Dock (maritime) Dockworker Doctor of Philosophy Doctor Who Doctorate Dodworth Dodworth Colliery Dog Dog fighting Dog show Dogberry Dogcart Doggerel doll Domesday Book Domestic pigeon Domestic violence Dominoes Don Juan (poem) Donald Dalrymple Donald O'Connor Donald Sinclair (veterinary surgeon) Doncaster Doncaster Minster Doncaster Racecourse Donkey Dora Diamant Dorman Long Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan Dorothy Wordsworth Double bass Double jeopardy Double-entry bookkeeping Douglas Reynolds Douglas William Jerrold Dover Dozen (textile) Draba incana Draba muralis Dragon Dragon of Wantley Drama (film and television) Draper Drawing drawn and quartered Drax Priory Drax, North Yorkshire Dream dressmaking Driffield Drift ice Dringhouses Drinking water Dripping Driven grouse shooting Dronfield Drought Drovers' road Droving Drowning Drug overdose Druid Druidry (modern) Drummer Dry stone Dryas octopetala Dublin Duchy of Brabant duck Duel Dugald Stewart Ephraim, Duke (-1786) Duke of Cumberland's Regiment of Light Dragoons Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse Duke of Wellington's Regiment Duke Town Duncannon Duncombe Park Dungworth Duns Scotus Durham Dust Dutch language Dutch Republic Dwarfism Dying declaration Dynamo Dysphagia Ealdred (archbishop of York) Eanflæd Earl of Nithsdale Earless seal Earlsheaton Early childhood Early Closing Association Early modern Europe Early-warning radar Earthquake Earthworks (archaeology) Easington, North Yorkshire Easingwold East Africa East Bowling East Coast Main Line East Cowick East Morton East Riding of Yorkshire East York Militia East Yorkshire Regiment Easter Monday Easter Sunday Easter Tuesday Eastrington Eastrington railway station Eating disorder Eaton Socon Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849) Eboracum Ecclesall Ecclesfield Eccleshill, Bradford Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastical Commission at York (1561-1641) Ecclesiastical court Ecgberht I of Northumbria Edema Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Ætheling Edinburgh Edith Tolkien Edlington Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby Bonner, Edmund (ca. 1500-69) Edmund Bunny Burke, Edmund (1729-97) Edmund Cartwright Gosse, Edmund Grindal, Edmund (ca. 1519-1583) Edmund Jennings (Member of Parliament) Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent Edmund Schulze Spenser, Edmund (1552/1553-1599) education Education Act 1902 Baines, Edward (1774–1848) Baines, Edward (1800–90) Edward Balliol Edward Barnes (British Army officer) Bromley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (1803-73) Burlend, Edward (1813-75) Edward Carpenter Edward Carson Edward Davies Davenport Edwards, Edward G. (1914-1996) Edward Hall Edward Harley (Parliamentarian) Edward Hawke Heath, Edward Edward I of England Edward II (1284-September 1327) Edward III (1312-1377) Edward IV (1442-83) Edward Jenner Edward Lee (bishop) Montagu, Edward (1602-71) Petre, Edward Robert (1794-1848) Edward Rookes Leedes Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset Edward Simpson (forger) Edward Talbot (bishop) Edward the Confessor Edward Topham Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt Edward VI Edward VII West, Edward (1821-83) Edward William Stillingfleet Edward Wortley Montagu (diplomat) Edward Young Eddison, Edwin (1805-67) Edwin of Northumbria Edwin Sandys (bishop) Edwin, Earl of Mercia Eel Eel life history Eemian Effigy Efik people egg Egret Egton Egypt Eighty Years' War Eldwick election electoral fraud Electoral roll Electorate of Hanover Electorate of Saxony Electric battery Electric power Electric Power Storage Company Electrical cable Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom Electricity Electricity generation Electrocution Electromagnetic induction Electromagnetic interference Electrostatic induction Elementary Education Act 1870 Elementary Education Act 1880 Elephant Eliot Stannard Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Wright, Elizabeth Mary (1863-1958) Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence Elizabethan Religious Settlement Ell Ella Pontefract Elland Elland Road Ellen and William Craft Ellen Nussey Ellerburn Elm Elmet Elmswell, East Riding of Yorkshire Elocution Eltham Emancipation Day Emancipation Proclamation Emasculation Embarrassment Embezzlement Embroidery Emigration Brontë, Emily Employee benefits Employment contract Empress Matilda Encephalitis Enclosure End of slavery in the United States engineering disasters England England cricket team English Civil War (1642-1651) English claims to the French throne English College, Douai English country house English Dissenters English folklore English Football League English Gothic architecture English grammar English land law English language English literature English longbow English national identity English phonology English Poor Laws English Reformation English Reformation Parliament English Steel Corporation Ent Environmental movement Ephraim of Bonn Epidemic typhus Epidemiological Society of London Epidemiology Epilepsy Epipactis helleborine Epistle to the Philippians Epistulae ex Ponto Epitaph Epsom Derby Epsom Downs Racecourse Epworth, Lincolnshire Equestrianism Equisetum variegatum Erectile dysfunction Erection Eric Cantona Watson, Eric R. (1879?-1927) Eric Shipton Erotic asphyxiation Erotica Eryholme Escutcheon (heraldry) Esholt Esholt Priory Eskdale Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby Esquire of the Body Essex Estates of the realm Esther (play) Ethics Ethiopia Ethnic stereotype Etiquette Eton College Etxalar Etymology Eucharist Euclid Euclidean geometry Eugene Aram Eugene Aram (novel) Carp Europa (consort of Zeus) European fallow deer European herring gull European shag European wars of religion Euthanasia Evangelical Anglicanism Evangelicalism Evangelism Evensong Eviction Evolutionary biology Exclusion Bill Parliament Exclusion Crisis Excommunication Execution of Charles I Exeter Exeter Hall Exorcism Exploration Explosion Exposition Universelle (1855) extratropical cyclone Eye disease F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich Moorman, F.W. 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