Yorkshire
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
English county where Oastler's exposure of child factory labour began the factory movement.
Now at the very time when the country was moved to passionate indignation at the horrors of West Indian slavery, public attention was suddenly directed, by the publication of Richard Oastler’s Slavery in Yorkshire, to oppression, not in the West Indies, but in Yorkshire—to the bondage, not of negroes, but of English children.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
English industrial region whose machine-made textiles drove commercial expansion
The cheapness of English goods became the marvel of the universe, and the machine-made stuffs of Lancashire and Yorkshire gave an impulse to English commerce scarcely equalled even during the period of railway construction and the gold discoveries.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
County where the English army raised for the Bishops' Wars remained stationed, the object of Charles's intrigues.
The circumstances of Strafford’s trial increased his irritation, and he had recourse to intrigues with the English army which still remained on foot in Yorkshire, hoping to engage it in his cause against the pretensions of Parliament.