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Page last updated at 17:35 GMT, Monday, 7 December 2009

Agatha Christie in 1926. Copyright Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Agatha Christie's Harrogate mystery
In 1926 the author created a mystery worthy of one of her own books but it wasn't solved by Poirot or Marple.

The York Waits copyright York Waits The bishop who banned York’s Yuletide
The Yuletide revelry in York was once so riotous that a Tudor archbishop had to put a stop to it.

Brian Johnston commentating at Lord's for the BBC in 1957 Thomas Lord's cricketing legacy
We've all heard about Lord's cricket ground in London, but do you know its North Yorkshire connection?


MORE HISTORY
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Edmund Wilson's swimming legacy
Lady Lumley's Ryedale bequest
Leeman, York's other Railway King
Scarborough's theatre genius
History of the Scarborough Spa
Who was the real Guy Fawkes
War heroes remembered again

Unique World War I photos
Life under ground at Brandsby
Thornton le Dale and the Emperor
History behind Ebberston's bomb
Conscientious objectors in prison
Uncovering York's industrial past
Scarborough's Tudor town plan
Not such a dandy highwayman

HISTORY ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
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Ripon Museums
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