Now! Then! A Yorkshire Almanac for 2023

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• Woodhead, German Sims (1855-1921) (1), Huddersfield-born pathologist, director of the combined labs of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons, Professor of Pathology at Cambridge ·
• 10–11 The Shambles (1) ·
• 15th The King’s Hussars (1) ·
• 1734 British general election (1) ·
• 1780 British general election (1) ·
• 1794 Treason Trials (2), anti-radical show trials mounted by Pitt the Younger, resulting in acquittals and public rejoicing ·
• 1807 United Kingdom general election in Yorkshire (1) ·
• 1807 United Kingdom general election (1) ·
• 1832 United Kingdom general election (1) ·
• 1842 general strike (2), aka the Plug Riots, and influenced by Chartism: the biggest single exercise of working class strength in nineteenth-century Britain ·
• 1851 United Kingdom census (1) ·
• 1863–1875 cholera pandemic (2) ·
• 1880 United Kingdom general election (1) ·
• 1931 World Table Tennis Championships – Men’s team (1) ·
• 1964 United Kingdom general election (1) ·
• 1966 Kingston upon Hull North by-election (1) ·
• 1966 United Kingdom general election (1) ·
• 1979 United Kingdom general election (1) ·
• 1992–93 UEFA Champions League (1) ·
• 1st White Cloth Hall (3) ·
• 3rd The King’s Own Hussars (1) ·
• 3rd White Cloth Hall (1) ·
• 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot (2) ·
• 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot (1) ·
• 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot (1) ·
• 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons (1) ·
• 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot (1) ·
• 7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (1) ·
• 80th parallel north (1) ·
• 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars (1) ·
• 9th Parliament of Elizabeth I (October 1597-February 1598) (1) ·
• A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1) ·
• A Word to the Wise (1), 1770 comedy by the Irish writer Hugh Kelly, first play performed at The Theatre, Leeds when it opened in 1771 ·
• A Yorkshire Tragedy (1) ·
• Aaron of Lincoln (ca. 1125-1186) (1), Jewish financier, perhaps the wealthiest man in Norman England ·
• Abbey Wood (1) ·
• Abbey (1) ·
• Abdominal surgery (1) ·
• Abdulmejid I (1) ·
• 📌Aberford (1) ·
• Abijah of Judah (1) ·
• Abolitionism in the United Kingdom (7), movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end slavery in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and elsewhere ·
• Abolitionism (1) ·
• Abortifacient (2) ·
• Abortion (3) ·
• Abraham Darby I (1) ·
• Abraham Lincoln (1) ·
• Abraham (1) ·
• Abscess (1) ·
• Absolute monarchy (1) ·
• Abstinence pledge (1) ·
• Abstinence (1) ·
• Abstrupus Danby (1) ·
• Academic freedom (1) ·
• Academy (1) ·
• Acca of Hexham (1) ·
• Accent (sociolinguistics) (1) ·
• Accident (20) ·
• Accounting (1) ·
• Achillea millefolium (1) ·
• Acklam, Ryedale (1) ·
• Ackton (1) ·
• Acomb, North Yorkshire (1) ·
• Acrobatics (1) ·
• Act for Punishment of Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars 1536 (1) ·
• Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 (1) ·
• Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601 (3) ·
• Act of Uniformity 1549 (1) ·
• Act of Uniformity 1558 (1) ·
• Act of Uniformity 1662 (4) ·
• Acting (1) ·
• Acts of Union 1707 (1) ·
• Acts of the Apostles (1) ·
• Actuarial science (1) ·
• Addiction (1) ·
• Admiralty (5), government department responsible for the Royal Navy until 1964 ·
• Adobe Photoshop (1) ·
• Adolf Hitler (1) ·
• Adolphus, John (1768-1845) (1), barrister and historian ·
• Adultery (7) ·
• Advance-fee scam (1) ·
• Adventism (1) ·
• Advertising (4) ·
• Aesop’s Fables (2) ·
• Aesop (2) ·
• Affordable housing (2) ·
• Africa (2) ·
• Afro-Caribbean people (1) ·
• Agape feast (2) ·
• Agatha Christie (1) ·
• Aggressive panhandling (1) ·
• Agistment (2) ·
• Agricultural machinery (1) ·
• Agriculture (9) ·
• Agrostemma githago (1) ·
• Aidan of Lindisfarne (?-651) (1), Irish missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria, founder of Lindisfarne Priory ·
• Ainsty (1) ·
• Aintree Racecourse (1) ·
• Air Ministry (1) ·
• Air Raid Precautions (1) ·
• Air pollution (7) ·
• Aircraft (1) ·
• Aire and Calder Navigation (4), canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in the West Riding, built 1699-1905 ·
• Airedale (2) ·
• Airstrike (1) ·
• Aislabie, George (1618-75) (1), eldest son of Robert Aislabie of Osgodby (Hemingbrough), second wife was Mary (died 1683), younger daughter and coheir of Sir John Mallory of Studley Royal, mother of John Aislabie (1670-1742) ·
• Aislabie, John (1670-1742) (1), son of George Aislabie (q.v.) and of Mary Mallory of Studley Royal (Ripon), free-ranging MP 1695-1721, as Chancellor of the Exchequer took bribes from the South Sea Company and was disgraced ·
• 📌Aislaby, Scarborough (1), village near Whitby on the northern slopes of Eskdale ·
• Alabaster (1) ·
• Alberche (1) ·
• Alcohol (drug) (48) ·
• Alcohol intoxication (21) ·
• Alcoholism (10) ·
• Alcuin (1) ·
• Aldborough, North Yorkshire (1) ·
• Aldbrough St John (1) ·
• Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire (1) ·
• Alderney cattle (1) ·
• Aldersgate (1) ·
• 📌Aldro (1) ·
• Alemayehu (1861-79) (1), son of Emperor Tewodros II and Empress Tiruwork Wube of Ethiopia ·
• Alexandra of Denmark (1) ·
• Alfred Austin (1) ·
• Alfred Mynn (1) ·
• Alfred Newton (1) ·
• Algae (1) ·
• Algebra (3) ·
• Algiers (1) ·
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1) ·
• Alite (1) ·
• All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series) (1) ·
• All Hallows’ Church, Harthill (1) ·
• All Saints Church, Darfield (1) ·
• All Saints’ Day (3) ·
• All Souls’ Day (1) ·
• All the Year Round (1) ·
• Allbutt, Clifford (1836-1925) (21), Dewsbury-born physician (Leeds Infirmary 1861-89), inventor of the clinical thermometer, Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge 1892-his death ·
• Allbutt, Thomas (1), vicar of Dewsbury (1835-62), father of Clifford Allbutt ·
• Allerston (1) ·
• 📌Allerton, West Yorkshire (2) ·
• Allhallowtide (1) ·
• Allison, William (1851-1925) (12), Yorkshire-born sporting journalist ·
• Allotment (gardening) (2) ·
• Almanac (2) ·
• 📌Almondbury (2) ·
• Alms (1) ·
• Almshouse (1) ·
• Alpaca (2) ·
• Altered state of consciousness (1) ·
• Altham, James (1) ·
• Altona, Hamburg (1) ·
• Alum (2) ·
• Alverthorpe (1) ·
• Amateur sports (3) ·
• 📌Ambleside (1), town at the head of Lake Windermere, historically in Westmorland, now Cumbria ·
• American Civil War (3) ·
• American Revolutionary War (1) ·
• Americas (1) ·
• Amharic (1) ·
• Ammonites (2), extinct spiral-shelled marine molluscs dating from the Devonian to roughly the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, name derived from the coiled ram's horns worn by the Egyptian god Ammon ·
• Ammunition (1) ·
• Amnesia (1) ·
• Amsterdam (1) ·
• Anabaptism (1) ·
• Anal sex (1) ·
• Anatomy Act 1832 (1) ·
• Anatomy (1) ·
• Ancient Carthage (1) ·
• Ancient Greece (1) ·
• Ancient Rome (4) ·
• Anderton, Henry (1), poet ·
• Andrew Carnegie (1) ·
• Andrew Trollope (1) ·
• Andrew the Apostle (1) ·
• Andy Goram (1) ·
• Andy Roberts (cricketer) (1) ·
• Angles (2) ·
• Anglicanism (2) ·
• Anglo-Dutch Wars (2), three conflicts 1652-1674 and one 1780-1784, all mainly naval ·
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1) ·
• Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (2) ·
• Anglo-Saxons (10) ·
• Anglo-Scandinavian (1) ·
• Anglo-Zulu War (1) ·
• Angola (1) ·
• Angora goat (2) ·
• Angry young men (1) ·
• Animal attack (1) ·
• Animal fat (1) ·
• Animal husbandry (1) ·
• Animal pound (3) ·
• Animal slaughter (2) ·
• Animal welfare (2) ·
• Ann Walker (landowner) (1) ·
• Anna Abulafia (1) ·
• Anne Brontë (1) ·
• Anne I (1665-1714) (1), from 1702 Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and then, from the Acts of Union in 1707, of Great Britain and Ireland ·
• Anne of Denmark (1) ·
• Anorexia (symptom) (1) ·
• Anorexia nervosa (1) ·
• Anselm of Canterbury (1) ·
• Antera, Duke Ephraim (ca. 1735-ca. 1809) (1), Efik slave dealer, nephew of Duke Ephraim, obong of Old Calabar, Bight of Benin, author of diary in Nigerian Pidgin, Dictionary of African Biography is good ·
• Anthemis arvensis (1) ·
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1) ·
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1) ·
• Anthony Kershaw (1) ·
• Anthony St Leger (British Army officer) (1) ·
• Anthrax (1) ·
• Anthriscus sylvestris (1) ·
• Anthropology (1) ·
• Anthropomorphism (1) ·
• Anti-Corn Law League (1) ·
• Anti-aircraft warfare (1) ·
• Anti-clericalism (6) ·
• Antigua (1) ·
• Antiquities (2) ·
• Antisemitism (6) ·
• Antwerp (2) ·
• Antártica Chilena Province (1) ·
• Apennine Mountains (1) ·
• Apoplexy (1) ·
• Apostasy (1) ·
• Apparitional experience (1) ·
• Apperley Bridge (3) ·
• Apple (7) ·
• Appleby Horse Fair (1) ·
• Appleby-in-Westmorland (1) ·
• Appleton Wiske (1) ·
• Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes (1) ·
• Apprenticeship (2) ·
• Aquiline nose (1) ·
• Arabic (1) ·
• Aramaic (1) ·
• Arch bridge (1) ·
• Archaeological excavation (2) ·
• Archaeology (3) ·
• Archbishop of Canterbury (4) ·
• Archbishop of York (14) ·
• Archery (2) ·
• Archie Christie (1) ·
• Archimedes’ screw (1) ·
• Architectural acoustics (1) ·
• Architecture (4) ·
• Archive (1) ·
• Arctic Ocean (9) ·
• Arcturus (1) ·
• Area bombardment (1) ·
• Argentina anserina (1) ·
• Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1) ·
• Arithmetic (3) ·
• Armand Trousseau (2) ·
• Armistice Day (2) ·
• Armistice of 11 November 1918 (3) ·
• Armitage Bridge (1) ·
• Armitage, Richard (1), Mayor of Leeds, 1670 ·
• Armley Hippo (1), previously known as the Leeds Hippopotamus: the greater part of the fossil skeleton of a great northern hippopotamus, as much as 130,000 years old, some of which is on display at Leeds City Museum ·
• Armley asbestos disaster (1) ·
• Armley (8) ·
• Army Reserve (United Kingdom) (1) ·
• Armytage, John (-1650) (1), sheriff of Yorkshire 1614-15, owner of Kirklees Hall ·
• Armytage, John (1629-77) (1), 2nd Baronet, sheriff of Yorkshire 1668-9 ·
• Arncliffe Clowder (1) ·
• Arncliffe, North Yorkshire (1) ·
• Arnold Bennett (1) ·
• Arranged marriage (1) ·
• Arras culture (1) ·
• 📌Arras, East Yorkshire (1), farm, site of an Iron Age cemetery and a medieval village ·
• Arsenic poisoning (1) ·
• Arsenic trioxide (1) ·
• Arsenic (2) ·
• Arson (6) ·
• Art therapy (2) ·
• Arthington Hall (1) ·
• Arthington Viaduct (2) ·
• Arthington railway station (1) ·
• 📌Arthington (1) ·
• Arthritis (1) ·
• Arthur Bell Nicholls (1) ·
• Arthur Dorman (1) ·
• Arthur Ingram (1) ·
• Arthur Kekewich (1) ·
• Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1) ·
• Artichoke (1) ·
• Artillery (2) ·
• Arts administration (1) ·
• Asbestos and the law (1) ·
• Asbestos (1) ·
• Ascot Racecourse (1) ·
• Ashton-under-Lyne (2) ·
• Asphyxia (1) ·
• Asplenium ceterach (1) ·
• Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928) (3), Morley-born Liberal MP (East Fife, 1886-1916), prime minister (1908-16), home secretary (1892-95) ·
• Assizes (20) ·
• Association football (5) ·
• Association for the Protection of Sea-Birds (1) ·
• Asthma (1) ·
• Astrology (1) ·
• Astronomy (6) ·
• At Her Majesty’s pleasure (1) ·
• At Last the 1948 Show (1) ·
• Atheism (4) ·
• Atlantic Ocean (5) ·
• Atlantic puffin (1) ·
• Atlantic slave trade (5) ·
• Attempted murder (2) ·
• Attercliffe (4) ·
• Attlee ministry (1) ·
• Attorney General for England and Wales (2) ·
• Auction (2) ·
• Auguste Comte (2) ·
• Augustinians (2) ·
• Augustus Duncombe (1) ·
• Augustus Leopold Egg (1) ·
• Augustus Wall Callcott (1) ·
• Auk (1) ·
• Aurochs (1) ·
• Aurora (2) ·
• Australia (1) ·
• Autobiography (1) ·
• Autocracy (1) ·
• Autodidacticism (1) ·
• Autopsy (2) ·
• Avebury (1) ·
• Avitianus (1) ·
• Axe (1) ·
• Azerley (1) ·
• BBC One (1) ·
• BBC (3) ·
• Baby bottle (2) ·
• Bacillus anthracis (1) ·
• Back-to-back house (3) ·
• Bacon (1) ·
• Badger-baiting (1) ·
• Badger (2) ·
• Baffin Bay (2) ·
• Bagley, West Yorkshire (1) ·
• Bagpipes (2) ·
• Baildon (3) ·
• Bainbridge, North Yorkshire (1) ·
• Baines, Edward (1774–1848) (6), Nonconformist editor and proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, politician, author of historical and geographic reference works ·
• Baines, Edward (1800–90) (2) ·
• Bainton, East Riding of Yorkshire (1) ·
• Baiting (blood sport) (1) ·
• Baitings Reservoir (1) ·
• Bakery (1) ·
• Bakestone (1) ·
• Balby (2) ·
• Balearic Islands (1) ·
• Baleen (1) ·
• Ballad (17) ·
• Ballast (1) ·
• Balliol College, Oxford (1) ·
• Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (1) ·
• Ballistic missile (2) ·
• Balme, Abraham (1706-96) (2), Thornton-born, Bradford-based farmer and land-owner, mining, turnpike and banking entrepreneur ·
• Balne (1) ·
• Baltic Sea (5) ·
• Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400–1800) (5) ·
• Bamburgh (1) ·
• Band of Hope (1) ·
• Banjo (chocolate bar) (1) ·
• Banjo (1) ·
• Bank of England (1) ·
• Bankruptcy (2) ·
• Banns of marriage (1) ·
• Baptism (5) ·
• Baptists (2) ·
• Barbados (2) ·
• Barbary pirates (1) ·
• Barber (1) ·
• Barbiturate (1) ·
• Barden Tower (1) ·
• Barden, Craven (1) ·
• Bardsley, James (1805-1886) (1), millworker, evangelical Anglican cleric in Yorkshire and Lancashire ·
• Bare-knuckle boxing (1) ·
• Barker’s Pool (1) ·
• 📌Barkerend (1) ·
• Barley (4) ·
• Barnard Castle (2) ·
• 📌Barnbow (1) ·
• 📌Barnby Furnace (2) ·
• 📌Barnsley (19) ·
• Barrister (1) ·
• Barrow upon Humber (1) ·
• Bartholomew Fair (2) ·
• Bartholomew the Apostle (3) ·
• Barton-upon-Humber (1) ·
• Bartsia alpina (1) ·
• Basket (1) ·
• Baslow (1) ·
• Bastille (1) ·
• Bateman, Josiah (ca. 1802-93) (1), clergyman and writer ·
• Bateman, Mary (1768-1809) (3), "the Yorkshire Witch," career criminal from the North Riding, hung for murder ·
• Bath, Somerset (3) ·
• Bathing machine (1) ·
• Bathing (2) ·
• Bathroom (1) ·
• Bathtub (1) ·
• Batley Carr (1) ·
• 📌Batley (5) ·
• Battle of Abukir (1801) (1) ·
• Battle of Agincourt (1415) (2), an unexpected English victory against a numerically superior French army in northern France during the Hundred Years' War, crippling France and commencing 14 years of English dominance ·
• Battle of Alexandria (1) ·
• Battle of Austerlitz (1) ·
• Battle of Copenhagen (1801) (2) ·
• Battle of Culloden (1) ·
• Battle of Dettingen (1) ·
• Battle of Famars (1) ·
• Battle of Flodden (3) ·
• Battle of Fredericksburg (1) ·
• Battle of Fulford (1) ·
• Battle of Hastings (2) ·
• Battle of Hatfield Chase (1) ·
• Battle of Heptonstall (1) ·
• Battle of Khotyn (1673) (1) ·
• Battle of Le Cateau (1) ·
• Battle of Leipzig (1) ·
• Battle of Magdala (1) ·
• Battle of Marston Moor (1) ·
• Battle of Minden (1) ·
• Battle of Myton (1) ·
• Battle of Orthez (1) ·
• Battle of Passchendaele (1) ·
• Battle of Preston (1715) (1) ·
• Battle of Seacroft Moor (1) ·
• Battle of Sherburn in Elmet (1) ·
• Battle of Stamford Bridge (1) ·
• Battle of Talavera (1) ·
• Battle of Tankersley Moor (1) ·
• Battle of Toulouse (1814) (1) ·
• Battle of Towton (1) ·
• Battle of Trafalgar (1) ·
• Battle of Vitoria (1) ·
• Battle of Waterloo (5) ·
• Battle of York (867) (1) ·
• Battle of the Pyrenees (1) ·
• Battle of the Standard (22 August 1138) (1), also the Battle of Northallerton, Cowton Moor near Northallerton: English forces under William of Aumale repelled a Scottish army led by King David I of Scotland ·
• Battle (2) ·
• Battlecruiser (1) ·
• Bavaria (1) ·
• Bayley, John (1763-1841) (2), 1st Baronet, judge. ·
• Bayonet (2) ·
• Beacon (3) ·
• Bean (2) ·
• Bear Island (Norway) (1) ·
• Bear pit (1) ·
• Bear (3) ·
• Beating the bounds (1) ·
• Beatrix Potter (1) ·
• Beckett, Richard (1772-1809) (1), Leeds-born amateur cricketer and captain in the Coldstream Guards during the Napoleonic Wars ·
• Bedale (2) ·
• Bede (672/3-735) (3), Northumbrian monk, theologian, calendar-nerd and historian ·
• Bedfordshire (1) ·
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• Beef (2) ·
• Beeldenstorm (1) ·
• Beer (28) ·
• Beeston, Leeds (5) ·
• Beeswax (1) ·
• Beggarington (1) ·
• Begging (2) ·
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• Belgium (7) ·
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• Bell-ringer (4) ·
• Bell (5) ·
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• Benedictines (1) ·
• Benefit society (1) ·
• Benguela Province (1) ·
• Benjamin Disraeli (1) ·
• Benjamin Gott (2) ·
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1) ·
• Benjamin Martin (lexicographer) (1) ·
• Benjamin Pickard (1) ·
• Bennett, Alan (1934-) (3), Leeds-born actor, author, playwright and screenwriter ·
• Berbers (1) ·
• Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan (1) ·
• Berkhamsted (1) ·
• Bernard of Clairvaux (1) ·
• Bernicia (2), Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by 6th century Anglian settlers between the Forth and the Tees (modern counties: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham, Berwickshire, East Lothian), merged in the early 7th century with southern neighbour, Deira, to form the kingdom of Northumbria ·
• Berry Brow (1) ·
• 📌Berwick-upon-Tweed (4) ·
• Besant, Annie (1) ·
• Bessemer process (1) ·
• Best, Henry (approx. 1592-1645) (16) ·
• Bethlem Royal Hospital (1) ·
• Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate (1) ·
• Beverley Minster (7) ·
• Beverley (20) ·
• Bible (11) ·
• Biblical Sabbath (1) ·
• Biblical canon (2) ·
• Bibliotheca historica (1) ·
• Bicycle (2) ·
• Bidasoa (1) ·
• Bier (1) ·
• Bierley, West Yorkshire (1) ·
• Bigamy (2) ·
• Bight of Biafra (2) ·
• Bigod's rebellion (1537) (1), an armed rising by Roman Catholics in Cumberland and Westmorland in frustration at the failure by Henry VIII to implement promises made following the Pilgrimage of Grace ·
• Bill of Rights 1689 (1) ·
• Bilsdale (2) ·
• Bilton-in-Ainsty (1) ·
• Binding of Isaac (1) ·
• Bingley Grammar School (1) ·
• 📌Bingley (10), market town on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal six miles northwest of Bradford in the West Riding ·
• Biology (1) ·
• Bipolar disorder (1) ·
• Bird of prey (1) ·
• Bird trapping (1) ·
• Bird vocalization (1) ·
• Bird (5) ·
• Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire (1) ·
• Birmingham Political Union (1) ·
• Birmingham (6) ·
• Birstall, West Yorkshire (2) ·
• Birstwith (1) ·
• Birth control (2) ·
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• Bishop of Sodor and Man (1) ·
• Bishop (1) ·
• Bishops’ Wars (1) ·
• 📌Bishopthorpe Palace (4) ·
• 📌Bishopthorpe (6) ·
• Bittern (1) ·
• Black Sea (1) ·
• Black hair (1) ·
• Black horse (1) ·
• Black tea (1) ·
• Blackburn (2) ·
• Blackett, William (1690-1728) (1), 2nd Baronet of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, landowner, Tory MP 1710-1728, Mayor of Newcastle 1718-19, cautious Jacobite ·
• Blackface (3) ·
• Blackmail (2) ·
• Blacksmith (5) ·
• Blackstone Edge (1) ·
• Blair Athol (1861-82) (1), racehorse and sire, won The Derby and the St Leger in a three-month career, one of the best horses of his era ·
• Blast furnace (5) ·
• Bleeding (2) ·
• Blenheim (1783 ship) (1) ·
• Blenkinsop, John (1) ·
• Blizzard (1) ·
• Blond (1) ·
• Blood sport (5) ·
• Bloome, Matthew (-1686) (1), Brotherton-born curate at Attercliffe, ejected 1662 and imprisoned at York, maltster, founded with Hancock a Congregational chapel at Attercliffe ·
• Bloomery (1) ·
• Blubber (2) ·
• Blyton, Rowland (1), elderly abbot imposed on Rievaulx (1533-38) following the deposition of Kirkby ·
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• Board of guardians (1) ·
• Boarding school (2) ·
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• Boatswain (1) ·
• Body donation (1) ·
• Body snatching (2) ·
• Bohemian waxwing (1) ·
• Bolckow, Vaughan (1) ·
• Bolling Hall, Bradford (1) ·
• Bolsterstone (2) ·
• Bolton Abbey (village) (1) ·
• Bolton Abbey (2) ·
• Bolton Bridge (1) ·
• Bolton Priory (1) ·
• Bomber (1) ·
• Bone crusher (1) ·
• Bone fracture (1) ·
• Bone meal (1) ·
• Bonfire (1) ·
• Bonnell Thornton (1) ·
• Bonner, Edmund (ca. 1500-69) (1), Bishop of London (1539-49 and 1553-59), instrumental in Henry VIII's schism from Rome but returned to Catholicism and slaughtered Protestant dissidents under Mary I, ended his life a prisoner under Elizabeth I ·
• Book of Common Prayer (1549) (1) ·
• Book of Common Prayer (1552) (1) ·
• Book of Common Prayer (1) ·
• Book of Esther (1) ·
• Book of Isaiah (3) ·
• Book of Jeremiah (3) ·
• Book of Numbers (1) ·
• Book of Proverbs (1) ·
• Book of Revelation (4) ·
• Book (1) ·
• Boothferry Bridge (1) ·
• Boothferry (1) ·
• 📌Boothtown (2), textile settlement 1 mile north of Halifax ·
• Boredom (1) ·
• Borough of Harrogate (1) ·
• Boroughbridge (2) ·
• Borrer, William (1781-1862) (1), Sussex-based botanist ·
• Bosporus (1) ·
• Botany (4) ·
• Botswana (1) ·
• Bounty (reward) (1) ·
• Bourne, Lincolnshire (1) ·
• Bow Church (1) ·
• Bow Street Magistrates’ Court (2) ·
• 📌Bowes (1), village near Barnard Castle, now County Durham but in the North Riding until 1974 ·
• Bowhead whale (1) ·
• Bowling, Bradford (2) ·
• Boxing (2) ·
• Boyle, Richard (1694-1753) (1), Yorkshire-born 3rd Earl of Burlington, introduced Palladian architecture into this country ·
• Bradfield, South Yorkshire (2) ·
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