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Yorkshire Project Did You Know Entries

1... that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield, England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"? – Featured 15 July 2024
... that Laura Veale was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of Harrogate? – Featured 7 July 2024
... that Thorpe's secluded hills provided refuge from Scottish raiders and English Civil War troops? – Featured 20 April 2024
... that before becoming a jungle musician, Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist? – Featured 6 February 2024
... that Charlotte Haining was an International Jury Member for the selection of Finland's 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entry? – Featured 25 September 2023
... that the Leeds 13's attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union's expense was taken literally by the British press? – Featured 23 July 2023
... that Carol Thomas began her football career at the age of 11, while the sport was still banned for women? – Featured 22 July 2023
... that Kyren Wilson won the first four frames in all of his matches at the 2023 Tour Championship? – Featured 15 May 2023
... that The Noble Fisherman unusually places Robin Hood in the seaside town of Scarborough, and he ends up fighting French pirates? – Featured 19 April 2023
... that Nottingham Forest's victory in the 2022 EFL Championship play-off final gained them promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years? – Featured 2 April 2023
... that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield, England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms? – Featured 25 February 2023
... that Ye Olde White Harte, reputed to be "one of Hull's most haunted pubs", has a skull of unknown provenance (pictured) in the bar? – Featured 8 January 2023
... that Gary Wilson threw his cue stick to the floor in anger at the 2022 UK Championship? – Featured 11 December 2022
... that Rockstar Leeds was once based at a decommissioned church? – Featured 23 October 2022
... that writer Malcolm Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate, England, by the town council for services to local history? – Featured 20 October 2022
... that a miniature book written by a 13-year-old sold for over $1 million? – Featured 20 August 2022
... that botanist William West's elder son William West Jr assisted him with fieldwork, and his younger son George Stephen West collaborated with him on numerous scientific publications? – Featured 4 June 2022
... that when viewed from above, Scale Lane Footbridge looks like an apostrophe? – Featured 12 April 2022
... that copper thieves started a fire at Dalton Mills in 2011 while trying to burn off the insulation? – Featured 20 March 2022
... that the Sons of Neptune sailed a giant toilet down the River Thames? – Featured 15 March 2022
... that businessman and activist Matthew Glover's charity challenged Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent? – Featured 29 January 2022
... that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand? – Featured 28 January 2022
... that while his brother carried on the family photography business, Thomas Holroyd went into painting and later created The Dyeworks (pictured)? – Featured 13 December 2021
... that the 4.5-ton marble statue of Queen Victoria (pictured) in Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial was carved by the British sculptor William John Seward Webber? – Featured 12 December 2021
... that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville, her wealth consolidated its position in English society? – Featured 8 December 2021
... that James Milner once held the title of the Premier League's youngest goal scorer? – Featured 7 October 2021
... that both finalists at the 2008 World Snooker Championship made maximum breaks during the tournament? – Featured 2 September 2021
... that although Vlad the Impaler (pictured) and Elizabeth Báthory are popularly believed to have inspired Dracula, Bram Stoker's notes mention neither figure? – Featured 4 August 2021
... that when the Leeds Tiger (pictured) went on display in Leeds in 1863 it was described as a "work of art quite as much as an object for scientific observation"? – Featured 24 July 2021
... that Ripon Spa Baths is the only spa in the United Kingdom to have been ceremonially opened by a member of the royal family? – Featured 23 July 2021
... that The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood is based on the 1895 incident in Ireland where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling? – Featured 19 July 2021
... that the 2021 Challenge Cup Final between Castleford and St Helens today will be played at a half-full Wembley Stadium? – Featured 17 July 2021
... that rugby league's Hull F.C. forced rugby union's Hull KR out of their home ground by paying triple the rent before the teams became part of rugby league's Hull Derby? – Featured 15 July 2021
... that botanist and "great Yorkshire character" John Farrah reprimanded greedy plant collectors in such a way that they would "remember it to the end of their days"? – Featured 2 June 2021
... that the regular nature walks taken by historian and naturalist William Grainge averaged 24 miles (39 km)? – Featured 21 May 2021
... that Alan Little led York City to victory in the 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final two days before his brother's side played in the First Division play-off Final? – Featured 14 May 2021
... that the former Adelaide Level lead mine (pictured) at Arn Gill in Swaledale, England, was named after Lady Adelaide Lamont, a descendant of Judge Jeffreys? – Featured 7 May 2021
... that the year after going into administration, Huddersfield Town gained promotion to the Second Division by winning the 2004 Football League Third Division play-off Final? – Featured 27 April 2021
... that Humphrey Jennings's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time? – Featured 15 April 2021
... that Neil Warnock left Huddersfield Town shortly after they gained promotion by winning the 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final because he said the club chairman had told him a "porky pie"? – Featured 21 March 2021
... that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax? – Featured 18 March 2021
... that Swansea City made two appearances at the Millennium Stadium in 2006, winning the Football League Trophy but losing the Football League One play-off Final? – Featured 14 March 2021
... that the English classicist Neil Hopkinson hosted events at which only dessert was served? – Featured 9 March 2021
... that the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final at Wembley Stadium was won by a pub team from Essex? – Featured 25 February 2021
... that Roy Brown, credited with downing the Red Baron, suffered a serious accident not long after being posted to Marske Aerodrome? – Featured 25 February 2021
... that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis? – Featured 23 February 2021
... that Bradford City scored three goals in 13 minutes to secure promotion in the 2013 Football League Two play-off Final? – Featured 21 February 2021
... that some of the Sheffield Wednesday team participated in a conga on the M4 motorway after winning the 2005 Football League One play-off Final? – Featured 19 February 2021
... that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's Labour Party? – Featured 19 February 2021
... that after his side won the 2008 Football League One play-off Final, Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll said he could "murder a cup of tea"? – Featured 9 February 2021
... that stocks of mustard gas, thought to have been destroyed in the 1940s, were discovered at RAF Bowes Moor in 1997? – Featured 6 February 2021
... that due to Brian Crabtree's closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling, Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Shirley Crabtree with Brian refereeing? – Featured 24 January 2021
... that figurative artist Hilda Annetta Walker (work pictured) objected to Modernist works because she found it difficult to tell what they represented? – Featured 22 January 2021
... that Hector Munro Chadwick postulated the Heroic Age as a distinct stage in the development of human societies? – Featured 11 January 2021
... that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job? – Featured 14 December 2020
... that medieval ceramics expert Jean Le Patourel was also an expert in the archaeology of dog collars? – Featured 11 December 2020
... that after awarding a controversial goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final, referee Tom Kirkham took refuge in a broom cupboard to evade angry goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke (pictured)? – Featured 18 November 2020
... that it is impossible to draw water from Robin Hood's Well? – Featured 9 November 2020
... that in a speech after the 1901 FA Cup Final, General Sir Redvers Buller compared football to the Army by saying that the winning side is usually the one best practised at shooting? – Featured 8 November 2020
... that following the Treaty of Ripon, signed on this day in 1640, a Scottish army had their expenses paid by England, while occupying northern England? – Featured 28 October 2020
... that the first large bathhouse in York was built at the bottom of Marygate (pictured) in 1836? – Featured 24 October 2020
... that the former site of the Majestic Cinema, Leeds, which was gutted by fire in 2014, will become the national headquarters of Channel 4? – Featured 8 October 2020
... that the only statue of a public figure in Scarborough is a memorial to Queen Victoria outside its town hall (pictured)? – *... that in 1833, English magistrate John Peele Clapham edited a children's hymn book which had numerous editions and a wide circulation? – Featured 11 September 2020
... that finishers of the Sheffield Star Walk were rewarded with a hot mug of Oxo? – Featured 10 September 2020
... that all three of the pleasure gardens run by the entrepreneur Thomas Clapham in Leeds and London failed due to debt and were sold for housing? – Featured 7 September 2020
... that Mark Williams won the most successive frames at the 2003 World Snooker Championship, despite losing the first two? – Featured 3 September 2020
.. that two Northumbrian kings, Ælla and Osberht, were killed by Vikings in 867 at the Battle of York? – Featured 29 August 2020
... that because of its isolated, moorside location, Wells House, Ilkley, is the only building by Cuthbert Brodrick known to have been surrounded by a designed landscape? – Featured 15 August 2020
... that West Park United Reformed Church of Harrogate, England, has twelve heads of historical characters, including John Bunyan (pictured), carved on its wall? – Featured 12 August 2020
... that at the 2005 World Snooker Championship, a player turned up without his cue stick and with a hangover? – Featured 16 July 2020
... that Asa Binns was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, but died before he could take office? – Featured 2 July 2020
... that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team? – Featured 16 June 2020
... that Chelsea F.C.'s loss in the 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final triggered football hooliganism that injured 45 people? – Featured 16 June 2020
... that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match? – Featured 14 June 2020
... that Systime Computers, based in Leeds, was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer? – Featured 14 June 2020
... that prior to the event, bookmakers' odds against Joe Johnson winning the 1986 World Snooker Championship were 150 to 1? – Featured 29 May 2020
... that after his side defeated Leeds United in the FA Cup, Cardiff City chairman Sam Hammam had two BBC reporters forcibly removed and had an altercation with the opposing manager? – Featured 25 May 2020
... that with her victory at the 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship, Lisa Quick became the first person to win world titles in both pool and snooker? – Featured 12 May 2020
... that racing driver Justin Wilson entered the 2003 Formula One World Championship through an investment programme listed on the London Stock Exchange? – Featured 3 May 2020
... that Colonel Tom Moore, who turns 100 today, has raised more than £31 million for NHS Charities Together by walking laps of his garden? – Featured 30 April 2020
... that England international footballer Colin Grainger was also a professional singer and shared a bill with the Beatles? – Featured 29 April 2020
... that although the Brimham Rocks (example pictured) were shaped naturally by erosion, Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by druids? – Featured 23 March 2020
... that Ripon Parks is noted for its colonies of the parasitic common toothwort (pictured), as well as for the yellow star-of-Bethlehem? – Featured 16 March 2020
... that the Leeds-based software company Visionware represented a management buyout success story from the failure of a once much larger British company? – Featured 24 February 2020
... that Hack Fall Wood in North Yorkshire, England, hosts the rare lemon slug (example pictured)? – Featured 12 February 2020
... that Bishop Monkton Ings in North Yorkshire, England, provides a habitat to the semi-parasitic marsh lousewort? – Featured 9 February 2020
... that Mar Field Fen is "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York"? – Featured 8 February 2020
... that the Siege of Hull took place in 1642 after the governor twice refused to admit King Charles I to the town? – Featured 2 February 2020
... that the locally scarce bird's eye primrose grows at Cow Myers in North Yorkshire? – Featured 30 January 2020
... that Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain"? – Featured 25 January 2020
... that the nationally rare tansy beetle (example pictured) survives at Acaster South Ings, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near York, England? – Featured 23 January 2020
... that Farnham Mires is one of the few sedge-and-rush marshes left in the Vale of York? – Featured 22 January 2020
... that Dehenna Davison is Bishop Auckland's first Conservative member of Parliament since the constituency's creation in 1885? – Featured 18 January 2020
... that after the ancient Shire Oak fell in 1941, part of it was carved into a sculpture of the Madonna and Child for a local church? – Featured 25 December 2019
... that research on pain in fish by Victoria Braithwaite resulted in new rules in the UK, Europe, and Canada to make fisheries more humane? – Featured 1 December 2019
... that during the capture of Wakefield, some historians claim that the town's commander led a counterattack "in his nightshirt" because he was hungover? – Featured 27 September 2019
... that the 1985 World Snooker Championship holds the record for the highest-rated post-midnight broadcast in the United Kingdom? – Featured 21 September 2019
... that when Joseph Wood was appointed as head master of Harrow School, he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thomas Thackeray in 1760? – Featured 3 July 2019
... that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on Mars? – Featured 14 June 2019
... that six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis reached his 100th career final in the 2005 UK Championship? – Featured 11 March 2019
... that a disputed Priory election in early 14th-century Yorkshire led to nuns being placed under interdict and later being accused of being "daughters of perdition" by their own Archbishop? – Featured 8 March 2019
... that Yvonne Blenkinsop, Mary Denness, Christine Jensen and Lillian Bilocca became known as "headscarf revolutionaries" for their attempts to improve safety in the English fishing industry? – Featured 6 March 2019
... that Shutt and Thompson designed All Saints, Harlow Hill, with a "circular bell tower reminiscent of Irish bell-houses"? – Featured 4 March 2019
... that the 2017 UK Snooker Championship saw a member of the audience removed for snoring? – Featured 3 March 2019
... that The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican are an English parody band whose "mission is to keep their spiritual father Val Doonican's legacy alive"? – Featured 30 November 2018
... that a reconstruction of a Roman bath house at the Hull and East Riding Museum includes an original mosaic and a life-sized bather? – Featured 14 September 2018
... that the Exeter Hip, designed by Robin Ling and Clive Lee, improved the life of millions of people? – Featured 7 January 2018
... that Lillian Bilocca threatened to picket British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's house if he did not impose stronger safety regulations on the fishing industry? – Featured 23 November 2017
... that after murdering his mistress and her daughter in Ughill Hall, Sheffield, Ian Wood absconded to France and threatened to jump off Amiens Cathedral? – Featured 10 November 2017
... that The Black Swan at Oldstead is rated the best restaurant in the world by TripAdvisor? – Featured 26 October 2017
... that the hull of USS Albacore (launch pictured) had the Lyon Shape that was originally designed for airships by a woman? – Featured 28 July 2017
... that in the UK, the endangered Tansy beetle can only be found on the banks of the River Ouse, near York? – Featured 23 July 2017
... that Pinchinthorpe railway station closed 13 years before the rest of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway fell victim to the Beeching Axe? – Featured 21 January 2017
... that Giant Days was published by BOOM! Box after writer John Allison saved a BOOM! editor from falling? – Featured 20 January 2017
... that Ernest Ambler, a British-born, Oxford-educated physicist, became the director of the National Bureau of Standards in the United States? – Featured 17 January 2017
... that quarrying at West End in Penistone Hill Country Park once involved using a bar to make the cliff face collapse whilst the workers ran away? – Featured 25 November 2016
... that Charles Husband was the engineer behind what was, on completion, the world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope? – Featured 5 November 2016
... that while Sydney Robert Elliston was vicar of St Thomas, Killinghall (pictured), his fellow clergy appreciated an "improvement in their incomes"? – Featured 4 November 2016
... that Mary Kitson Clark's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England? – Featured 30 October 2016
... that GamesRadar ranked Worms Armageddon number 13 in their list of the top 50 PlayStation games of all time? – Featured 22 October 2016
... that whilst loading tanks at night on the Gilling and Pickering Line during World War II, soldiers would stand on either side of the wagons smoking cigarettes to guide the tank drivers? – Featured 9 September 2016
... that Boudewijn Zenden scored a penalty kick for Middlesbrough in the 2004 Football League Cup Final, despite slipping over in the process? – Featured 23 April 2016
... that the York City War Memorial (pictured) was built on land donated by the North Eastern Railway, who also built their own war memorial in York? – Featured 13 March 2016
... that in 1898 Sir Joseph Terry died of heart failure due to over-exertion while attempting to win a by-election in York? – Featured 18 February 2016
... that the 12th-century canon and prior Robert of Bridlington was buried in the cloister of Bridlington Priory? – Featured 7 February 2016
... that York City F.C. and York City Knights RLFC are expected to move into the York Community Stadium in 2017? – Featured 11 September 2015
... that volunteers at the Sorby Research Institute were made to wear the dirty underpants of scabies sufferers? – Featured 16 August 2015
... that the right foot of the female figure in The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished "seems actually to glow with the rich juice of life"? – Featured 12 July 2015
... that the intense lighting of The Wrestlers (pictured) highlights the curves, musculature, and sweat of the participants' naked bodies as they embrace and grapple? – Featured 7 July 2015
... that Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball (pictured) was commissioned from England's foremost painter of nudes by a Conservative Member of Parliament who wanted a picture of his daughters? – Featured 3 July 2015
... that Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed (pictured) was accused of a level of offensiveness one would expect from a foreign, not a British, artist? – Featured 25 June 2015
... that York City were knocked out of the first round of the FA Cup in their 2014–15 season? – Featured 13 June 2015
... that Don Revie changed the playing strip of Leeds United from blue and yellow to all-white, to mimic Real Madrid? – Featured 11 June 2015
... that English missionary James Sibree helped design and build approximately 50 churches in Madagascar in addition to writing books about the island's flora and fauna? – Featured 15 January 2015
... that Charles D'Almaine was the first person to make a record using the Stroh violin? – Featured 30 November 2014
... that Hawksmoor serves steaks (pictured) from Ginger Pig longhorns? – Featured 11 August 2014
... that VetUK, which has annual revenues of more than £10 million as of 2010, initially operated out of the living room of co-founder Iain Booth? – Featured 29 June 2014
... that before they moved to their current home of Odsal Stadium, Bradford Northern spent 26 years based at Birch Lane? – Featured 11 June 2014
... that Arsenal reached the 2014 FA Cup Final today without leaving London? – Featured 17 May 2014
... that Mount St Mary's Church, Leeds (pictured), was built on an abandoned mine and has a bricked-up access to the mine from the sacristy? – Featured 15 May 2014
... that Jack Charlton was the first foreigner to to manage the Republic of Ireland national football team? – Featured 27 April 2014
... that the first vicar of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw (pictured), was Charles Farrar Forster? – Featured 9 April 2014
... that Emma Lonsdale is a "fridge kid"? – Featured 20 February 2014
... that John Baines of Team GB, originally set to compete in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics, ended up doing the two-man bobsleigh as well? – Featured 17 February 2014
... that the Middleham Hoard from Yorkshire included seven Spanish-American reales but only two of them were real (unreal real pictured)? – Featured 11 February 2014
... that the building of St Robert's Church, Pannal, North Yorkshire, was begun by brothers of the Trinitarian Order in the 14th century? – Featured 17 January 2014
... that Cavendish Pianos is the only company producing pianos still wholly built in the UK? – Featured 18 December 2013
... that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a seven-part BBC adaptation of Susanna Clarke's first novel of the same name? – Featured 9 December 2013
... that part of The Thirteenth Tale, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Diane Setterfield, was filmed at Burton Agnes Hall, an Elizabethan manor in East Yorkshire? – Featured 18 November 2013
... that Jamaica Inn will be a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn novel? – Featured 26 October 2013
... that the Japanese ironclad Kongō was one of the two ships that returned the survivors of the wrecked Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul to Turkey in 1891? – Featured 22 September 2013
... that the Darnall Works in Sheffield (heat treatment workshop pictured) is the only remaining works to have produced crucible steel on a large scale? – Featured 14 September 2013
... that an ancestor of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, worked to create educational opportunities for women, and co-founded Leeds Girls' High School in 1876? – Featured 27 July 2013
... that screenwriter Sally Wainwright was inspired by her mother's second marriage when writing Last Tango in Halifax, a story of romance between two widowed septuagenarians? – Featured 8 May 2013
... that Leeds United banned Galatasaray fans from attending the UEFA Cup semi-final at Elland Road because of the 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence‎? – Featured 17 March 2013
... that the Fulmar sank off the coast of Kilkee, Co. Clare, exactly 50 years to the day after the Intrinsic did? – Featured 16 February 2013
... that if Welsh team Swansea City win in the 2013 Football League Cup Final, they will represent England in the Europa League? – Featured 1 February 2013
... that John Hemmingham was banned from Sheffield United's Bramall Lane stadium because of concerns that playing music might structurally damage the stands? – Featured 18 January 2013
... that Sir Marmaduke Constable was the great-grandfather of the poet, Henry Constable, author of Diana, one of the first English sonnet sequences? – Featured 2 January 2013
... that A Is for Acid, a biopic of Acid Bath Murderer John Haigh, was filmed in Scarborough because of the town's similarity to parts of 1940s London? – Featured 27 December 2012
... that Andy McDonald, the newly elected Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough, has already worked with parliamentarians as a special adviser to the Defence Select Committee? – Featured 21 December 2012
... that ITM Power are developing technology to make the Isle of Wight carbon neutral? – Featured 17 November 2012
|... that HMS Ambrose was a British cargo liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser and then into a submarine depot ship during World War I? – Featured 30 October 2012
... that 2012 British Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater made his Paralympic debut in 2000 in Sydney? – Featured 5 September 2012
... that Matt Byrne, Terry Bywater, Gaz Choudhry, Peter Finbow, Abdi Jama, Jon Hall, Dan Highcock, Ade Orogbemi, Simon Munn, Jon Pollock, Ian Sagar, and Matt Sealy have been selected to play wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics? – Featured 26 August 2012
... that Sheffield's Supertram system runs on a route initially selected for the Minitram automated guideway transit system? – Featured 29 July 2012
... that swimmer Joseph Roebuck missed out on qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics by a quarter of a second, but is set to compete in three events for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics? – Featured 28 July 2012
... that Michelin starred restaurant The Box Tree is part owned by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White? – Featured 28 July 2012
... that Sheffield United played their first ever league fixture against Burton Wanderers on 13 September 1890? – Featured 2 July 2012
... that at Euro 2012, the Pukka Pies England Band was banned from playing at England's game against France despite having UEFA approval? – Featured 1 July 2012
... that Holy Cross Church, Gilling, was at one time referred to as Saint Helena's after the Roman Empress whom legend says discovered the True Cross? – Featured 26 June 2012
... that York City have recorded more league victories against Rochdale than against any other club, having beaten them 43 times from 100 attempts? – Featured 22 June 2012
... that All Saints Church, Helmsley (pictured), contains two chapels dedicated to different saints? – Featured 19 June 2012
... that St Mary's Church, Whitby (pictured), was the setting for a scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula? – Featured 18 June 2012
... that While She Sleeps won the Kerrang! award for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 awards ceremony? – Featured 14 June 2012
... that British archer Amy Oliver, who is due to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, didn't like the sport when she first tried it? – Featured 12 June 2012
... that when three men wearing gloves, masks and balaclavas were found on the roof of a church (pictured) missing £100,000 worth of lead, they were let off because police said they "might be there just for the view"? – Featured 11 June 2012
... that St. Oswald's church, Oswaldkirk (pictured), hosted the first sermon of the future Archbishop of Canterbury and chaplain to Charles II, John Tillotson? – Featured 3 June 2012
... that in 1905, Bolckow Vaughan was easily Great Britain's largest producer of pig iron? – Featured 20 March 2012
... that Blair Athol won the 1864 Derby despite getting repeatedly kicked in the genitals by a lad paid by bookmakers to prevent him from competing, and later sired Silvio, who also won the Derby in 1877? – Featured 4 January 2012
... that Richard Bacon had a lengthy career in fishing, as well as serving in both world wars? – Featured 3 September 2011
... that the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds was deliberately built to be wider than the British Museum Reading Room, on which it was modelled? – Featured 10 August 2011
... that Gisborough Priory (ruins pictured) was one of the last monastic houses in England to fall victim to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540? – Featured 4 August 2011
... that the BBC used commentators for the first time at the 1936 FA Cup Final, where Sheffield United was captained by Harry Hooper? – Featured 14 June 2011
... that Shoot to Kill (1990) had to be made as a drama documentary because many of its subjects had either been shot by the RUC, given new identities, or forbidden to talk by the Official Secrets Act? – Featured 18 April 2011
... that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church, King Cross, Halifax built in 1911, is dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the first vicar of the prior church built in 1846? – Featured 13 April 2011
... that Rudyard Kipling's final resting place is at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Ireland? – Featured 1 April 2011
... that, following a dispute at the Sheffield Attercliffe by-election result in 1909, Arnold Muir Wilson sued a rival for damage to his bowler hat? – Featured 26 March 2011
... that the medieval cross in the centre of the village of Ackworth, West Yorkshire, may have been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death? – Featured 2 March 2011
... that Heaven 17's 1981 song "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" was banned by the BBC over fears it libeled Ronald Reagan? – Featured 17 December 2010
... that when the Queensbury mill-owner William Henry Foster died in 1908, a special train brought the Lord Mayor of Bradford to his funeral near Hornby Castle? – Featured 3 December 2010
... that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the River Tees? – Featured 24 November 2010
... that measuring 15 feet by 40 feet, Bigger Trees Near Warter is the largest painting by David Hockney?}} – Featured 20 November 2010
... that Butchers Wheel, a cutlery and tool factory in Sheffield, could only be accessed through a single, guarded door? – Featured 10 November 2010
... that a large fragment of the Northumbrian Easby Cross was over 1,000 years old when it was found built into a wall in a field? – Featured 4 November 2010
... that Empire Conveyor was the only ship sunk by U-122? – Featured 3 November 2010
... that Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey discusses both issues of the fair treatment of governesses and the ethical claim of animals to human protection? – Featured 24 October 2010
... that six Pre-Raphaelite artists designed the set of stained glass panels (pictured) illustrating scenes from the story of Sir Tristram and la Belle Isoude as told in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur? – Featured 12 October 2010
... that according to Elizabeth Gaskell, Maria Brontë was the inspiration for the character of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre? – Featured 5 October 2010
... that the Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire is the supposed site of Robin Hood's grave? – Featured 4 October 2010
... that the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott considered All Souls, Halifax, West Yorkshire (pictured), now redundant, to be his finest church? – Featured 26 September 2010
... that the font in St Mary's Church, Roecliffe, North Yorkshire, came from Holy Trinity Church, Hull, while the vestry door and marble steps came from York Minster? – Featured 24 September 2010
... that after the county cricket match between Yorkshire and Middlesex in July 1924, Yorkshire's Abe Waddington was accused of inciting the crowd to jeer the opposition? – Featured 23 September 2010
|... that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in World War II? – Featured 14 September 2010
... that the tower of St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe, North Yorkshire, has been described as "more like a castle fortification than a religious symbol"? – Featured 12 September 2010
... that association football club Bradford City's first game at Wembley Stadium in their 93-year history was the 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final? – Featured 11 September 2010
... that the Jacobean fittings in St John the Evangelist's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire, have been described as the glory of the church? – Featured 11 September 2010
... that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood, West Yorkshire, comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510? – Featured 8 September 2010
... that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899? – Featured 7 September 2010
... that Kirkleatham's Owl and Endangered Species Centre is home to one of Britain's largest collections of owls? – Featured 27 August 2010
... that the lintel over the doorway of Holy Trinity Church, Coverham, North Yorkshire, consists of a re-used Anglo-Saxon cross shaft? – Featured 25 August 2010
... that the font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham, South Yorkshire, depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving? – Featured 23 August 2010
... that there is a legend that the body of Saint Oswald, king of Northumbria, rested on the present site of St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall, South Yorkshire, after his death in 642? – Featured 22 August 2010
... that in the 1976 miniseries Dickens of London, British actor Roy Dotrice played both Charles Dickens and his father John Dickens? – Featured 3 August 2010
... that Sir Arthur Ingram became the most extensive estate owner in Yorkshire? – Featured 2 August 2010
... that pannage was a valuable right in the former royal Forest of Galtres in North Yorkshire, England? – Featured 26 July 2010
... that British actress Christine McKenna starred in the 1979 series Flambards but is now a television producer in the United States? – Featured 26 July 2010
... that footballer Andy Leaning was named man of the match following York City's 3–1 extra time defeat at Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round in 1986, with his performance being described as "heroic"? – Featured 20 July 2010
... that Todmorden Unitarian Church in West Yorkshire was built in memory of "Honest John" Fielden, and paid for by his three sons? – Featured 18 July 2010
... that while John Fawcett was minister of Wainsgate Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, he wrote the words of the hymn Blessed Be the Tie that Binds? – Featured 18 July 2010
... that after 104 years of existence, Hull City was promoted to play in the English Premier League for the first time in their history in 2008? – Featured 9 July 2010
... that the Saltburn Cliff Lift (pictured) is the oldest remaining water balance funicular cliff lift and railway in the United Kingdom? – Featured 11 June 2010
... that The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a BBC drama film based on the life of a 19th century lesbian industrialist? – Featured 10 June 2010
... that social reformer Isabella Ford was the first woman to speak at a conference of the Labour Representation Committee (which went on to form the British Labour Party)? – Featured 29 April 2010
... that the Armley asbestos disaster involved the contamination of about 1,000 houses in West Yorkshire, England, with asbestos dust? – Featured 28 April 2010
... that Frank Barrie portrayed Noël Coward in the original London production of Lunch with Marlene? – Featured 15 April 2010
... that residents of Castleford, England, were incensed when their council tried to eliminate Tickle Cock? – Featured 1 April 2010
... that the cod Yorkshire dialect, one on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle, in Monty Python's "Trouble at Mill" sketch actually means something? – Featured 1 April 2010
... that the Ilkley Museum in Yorkshire, England, is a notable habitat for Brunus edwardii? – Featured 1 April 2010
... that John Wright (pictured), one of the Gunpowder Plotters, was considered the finest swordsman in Britain? – Featured 18 March 2010
... that the phrase "doing a Leeds" has become synonymous in English football with the pitfalls of financial mismanagement of football clubs in general, after the rapid demise of Premier League team Leeds United? – Featured 3 February 2010
... that at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy? – Featured 2 February 2010
... that forty three butchers' shops were built around the outside of Borough Market in Halifax, England, along with three pubs? – Featured 29 January 2010
... that Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground? – Featured 18 January 2010
... that Thomas Humber was apprenticed as a blacksmith and went on to found the Humber bicycle company in 1869 which evolved into Humber automobiles? – Featured 10 January 2010
... that the eastern Yorkshire peninsula Holderness, according to the suggestion of some historians, takes its name from Thurbrand the Hold, killer of the Northumbrian earl Uhtred the Bold? – Featured 3 January 2010
... that the coastal tanker Empire Boy was lengthened in 1954 and that her triple expansion steam engine was replaced by a diesel engine in 1965? – Featured 12 December 2009
... that Arthur Lee Dixon was the last holder of a mathematical Chair at Oxford University to have a life tenure? – Featured 11 December 2009
... that Dean Clough business park at Halifax was once one of the world's largest carpet factories? – Featured 21 November 2009
... that twenty dragoons were needed to seal off North Bridge, Halifax (pictured) from exuberant crowds so that an opening ceremony could be held? – Featured 15 November 2009
... that the residents of England's Butt Hole Road raised £300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name? – Featured 13 September 2009
... that Gordon Brown's independent advisor on ministerial conduct, Sir Philip Mawer who was given a knighthood in 2002, has also been a dame? – Featured 29 July 2009
... that the possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales (pictured), a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria? – Featured 26 July 2009
... that 24 people died digging Bramhope Tunnel, known for its eccentric Neo-Gothic portal? – Featured 25 July 2009
... that rich Halifax mill-owner Edward Akroyd had everything except children, so he illustrated his home, Bankfield Museum, with images of babies (example pictured)? – Featured 21 July 2009
... that in the 2008 motorcycle Scott Trial event, there were only 60 official finishers out of a starting entry of 200? – Featured 17 May 2009
... that Henry Jenkins of Bolton-on-Swale, Yorkshire is said to have lived to the age of 169? – Featured 15 May 2009
... that Thored, ealdorman of southern Northumbria, disappears from the historical records after being charged with leading a fleet against marauding Vikings? – Featured 4 April 2009
... that Sir Winston Churchill competed in the Tall Ships Race with an all-female crew? – Featured 1 April 2009
... that German seamen forced a lesbian to go down during the First World War, and the French did the same during the Second World War? – Featured 1 April 2009
... that the Land of Green Ginger can be seen through the world's smallest window? – Featured 1 April 2009
... that Ælfhelm, ealdorman of York, was the grandfather of Harold Harefoot, king of England? – Featured 31 March 2009
... that after his release from prison in 1087, the English rebel Siward Barn is thought by some historians to have founded a colony on the Black Sea with other refugees from the Norman Conquest of England? – Featured 29 March 2009
... that Henry Seymour King, Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull Central for 25 years, was the first climber to reach the summits of Mont Maudit and Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey? – Featured 14 March 2009
... that Gilling Abbey, located in present-day Yorkshire, was founded shortly after 651 AD on an estate granted as weregild? – Featured 12 March 2009
... that John Thomas North (pictured), originally a Yorkshire mechanic, became a friend of the future King George V and was worth $10 million in 1889? – Featured 12 March 2009
... that a cow once got stuck in Boot's Folly at Strines Reservoir, South Yorkshire, England, after climbing its staircase? – Featured 27 February 2009
... that as part of the Canterbury-York dispute in medieval England, Gerard, an Archbishop of York, once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the Archbishop of Canterbury's? – Featured 23 February 2009
... that only after the end of World War II was it publicly revealed that the Norwegian ships SS Irma and SS Henry had been sunk by the Royal Norwegian Navy? – Featured 2 February 2009
... that Oslac, the first ealdorman of southern Northumbria, is said to have escorted the Scottish king Cináed mac Maíl Coluim to the court of the English king Edgar the Peaceful? – Featured 28 January 2009
... that Shire Brook in Sheffield, England, was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years? – Featured 23 January 2009
... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child? – Featured 18 January 2009
... that the King Mojo Club in Sheffield, run by Peter Stringfellow, hosted the Small Faces' first gig outside London? – Featured 10 January 2009
... that English primary school Watercliffe Meadow's decision to call itself "a place of learning" rather than a "school" was attacked as being too politically correct? – Featured 6 January 2009
... that the production process for Swaledale cheese (pictured) includes soaking the cheese wheel in 85% brine for 24 hours? – Featured 26 December 2008
... that the body of Spence Broughton remained hanging in a gibbet on Attercliffe Common, near Sheffield, for 36 years after his execution for robbery in 1792? – Featured 5 December 2008
... that the Sheffield Iris newspaper's first editor fled the UK when troops tried to arrest him, and its second was imprisoned for six months on charges of malicious libel? – Featured 13 November 2008
... that horror novelist Anne Rice has cited the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter as an inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction? – Featured 8 November 2008
... that British WWII prisoner of war John Fancy dug eight tunnels with a table knife and escaped a total of 16 times, but was always recaptured? – Featured 10 October 2008
... that Cleckheaton railway station was stolen in August 1971? – Featured 1 October 2008
... that Curtis Woodhouse was a professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds? – Featured 23 September 2008
... that the Indian horror film 1920 was filmed at a Yorkshire mansion that was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a carpenter? – Featured 16 September 2008
... that the 1968 triple trawler tragedy caused the deaths of all but one member of the crews of three fishing vessels from Kingston upon Hull? – Featured 15 September 2008
... that Roger de Busli deliberately built Tickhill Castle directly on the Nottingham-Yorkshire border as he had authority in both? – Featured 10 August 2008
1 August|2008|entry=... that Sidney Weighell, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, played professional football with Sunderland for two seasons as an inside left? – Featured 1 August 2008
... that Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford was allegedly killed by a spear through the anus at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322? – Featured 23 July 2008
... that HMT Bedfordshire was one of 24 Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels sent to assist the United States after its entry into World War II?| – Featured 15 July 2008
... that an extension of Ferrybridge Henge in West Yorkshire was discovered when surveying an area in preparation to erect a row of houses? – Featured 7 July 2008
... that Jimmy Speirs won the Military Medal while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, six years after his goal helped Bradford City win the 1911 FA Cup Final? – Featured 4 July 2008
... that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration? – Featured 10 June 2008
... that Fountains Fell, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century? – Featured 30 May 2008
...that the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast? – Featured 24 May 2008
... that Sam Cowan is the only footballer to have represented Manchester City in three FA Cup finals? – Featured 14 May 2008
...that at 15 years and 156 days, Albert Geldard became the youngest player to appear in The Football League in 1929? – Featured 25 April 2008
...that Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I? – Featured 4 April 2008
...that more than half of the United Kingdom's specialist victim recovery dogs were used during the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews? – Featured 16 March 2008
...that English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family? – Featured 15 March 2008
...that Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"? – Featured 10 March 2008
...that the Sheffield Improvement Act 1818 required all owners of steam engines in the Yorkshire town to "consume" the engine's smoke? – Featured 2 March 2008
...that Bradford City Football Club blamed their FA Cup exit in the 1919–20 season on a pre-game trip to Fry's chocolate works? – Featured 25 February 2008
...that the wreck of the scallop dredger Solway Harvester was discovered by the Royal Navy's minehunter HMS Sandown? – Featured 22 February 2008
...that a heather fire in 1996 revealed many more quern-stones than had been previously known on the ancient quarry site of Wharncliffe Crags – Featured 18 February 2008
...that the charitable Sheffield Town Trust funded a cricket match which aimed to "prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks"? – Featured 14 February 2008
...that the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war, the Wars of the Roses? – Featured 14 February 2008
...that after sinking the SS City of Cairo, Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"? – Featured 24 December 2007
...that adjoining the house where the Cato Street conspirators intended to kill all of the cabinet, was the home of Archbishop of York, Edward Harcourt, who was entertaining the Prince Regent and the Dukes of Cambridge, Cumberland and Wellington? – Featured 15 November]] 2007
...that a church was built in memory of Parkin Jeffcock who led a rescue during the Oaks colliery explosions which killed over 350? – Featured 3 November 2007
...that John Fowler won the 1858 prize of the Royal Agricultural Society for mechanical cultivation using winches and a steam engine? – Featured 2 November 2007
...that British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez Crisis? – Featured 22 October 2007
...that the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector? – Featured 19 October 2007
...that John Harrison (pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer? – Featured 8 October 2007
...that British Member of Parliament Alfred Edwards, a Christian Scientist, campaigned to allow Christian Science Nurses to call themselves "Nurses" despite not being registered? – Featured 4 October 2007
...that Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate? – Featured 8 September 2007
...that the Maritime Museum in Kingston upon Hull, England, houses the largest collection of scrimshaw artwork in Europe? – Featured 8 August 2007
...that silver coins in the 10th-century Viking Harrogate Hoard, recovered intact in Yorkshire, January 2007, came from as far as Afghanistan? – Featured 23 July 2007
...that musician Ian Craig Marsh, once of pop groups The Human League and Heaven 17, began his career in a band called "Musical Vomit"? – Featured 12 July 2007
...that Ulley reservoir was sold to Rotherham council for £1 in 1980, when it was no longer needed to supply drinking water? – Featured 2 July 2007
...that Isaac Ironside, a politician in Sheffield, attempted to implement ideas originating from Robert Owen and from Toulmin Smith's localist theories? – Featured 19 May 2007
...that an estimated 20 people died after eating peppermint humbugs that were accidentally been made with arsenic in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning? – Featured 21 February 2007
...that Charles Leach was the only British Member of Parliament to have been disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act? – Featured 2 February 2007
...that Henry Percy was killed in a battle against Henry IV of England, whom he had helped to gain the Crown in a coup d'état? – Featured 16 December 2006

...that British Labour Party Member of Parliament Martin Flannery was a Communist until the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union, but remained on the far left? – Featured 23 October 2006
...that Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham in 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub? – Featured 28 September 2006
...that the first professional football team, The Zulus, was established in Sheffield, England in 1879? – Featured 21 July 2006
... that the Kisdon Force (pictured) is not an elite military unit, but rather a waterfall in North Yorkshire, England? – Featured 16 May 2006
...that Round the Bend was a children's television programme that was televised for three years on Children's ITV, but was supposedly cancelled as a result of Mary Whitehouse calling it politically incorrect? – Featured 22 February 2006
...that the Trow Ghyll skeleton, found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947, was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war? – Featured 7 February 2006
...that the former English football player Eric Brook is the all-time record goalscorer for Manchester City F.C. with 178 goals? – Featured 27 December 2005
...that Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York? – Featured 26 September 2005
...that HMS Adventure was the first ship to circumnavigate the globe from west to east? – Featured 16 June 2005
...that Reginald Hill's novel "A Clubbable Woman" was his first story about Dalziel and Pascoe? – Featured 10 February 2005
...that Thomas Lord started Lord's Cricket Ground (right), the Home of Cricket in 1814? – Featured 9 January 2005
...that Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome? – Featured 12 September 2004
...that the 364-metre pier in Withernsea, England was struck by ships four times, finally leaving it only 15 metres long? – Featured 9 August 2004
...that the 1984 Summit tunnel fire in England may have been the biggest underground fire in transportation history? – Featured 21 July 2004