Historical place archive

Yorkshire in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Yorkshire in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

5 records2 event labels3 people1784–1984

Historical events in Yorkshire

1784

6 April 1784
Election
William Wilberforce · Tory Party

Returned as Member of Parliament for Yorkshire at the age of twenty-four

1984

8 March 1984
Strike
Arthur Scargill · National Union of Mineworkers

The NUM National Executive supports Yorkshire & Scotland without a national ballot

17 March 1984
Strike
Arthur Scargill · National Union of Mineworkers

The Midlands, Northeast and Northwest miners vote against strike

19 March 1984
Strike
Arthur Scargill · National Union of Mineworkers

Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike

7 August 1984
Strike
Margaret Hilda Thatcher · Conservative Party Government

NUM assets are sequestrated. 2 Miners begin Court action against the Yorkshire NUM for striking without a ballot

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Yorkshire. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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