Happy Yorkshire Day!

[davywavy]

Might I wish you all a Happy Yorkshire Day, and offer commiserations to all those of you who had the misfortune to be born in any of the less good parts of the world.*

August 1st holds a special place in Yorkshire's history for, on this day in 1759, soldiers from Yorkshire regiments who had fought in the battle of Minden, in Germany, picked white roses from bushes near to the battlefields as a tribute to their fallen comrades.

There's been a lot of talk about how England should have it's own National Day (like the Scots, Irish and Welsh do), and I don't think we could do better than make Yorkshire Day a national holiday. After all, it does celebrate the very best thing about this country.

^{*i.e. all of them.}

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I blame Henry Tudor.

[(Anonymous)]

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[aiwendel.livejournal.com]

Apparently a Pork Minster (http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9848687.Pork_Minster_marks_Yorkshire_Day_in_York/) is the way to celebrate it nowadays....

[moomin-puffin.livejournal.com]

I'd like to celebrate Yorkshire day by eating lots of Yorkshire puddings, mmmmm...that and not being in Yorkshire today.

[(Anonymous)]

There used to be a philosophy don (I forget who) who defended Solipsism, on the grounds that, out of a world population of billions, it was so unlikely that he, personally, should be so extremely privileged: male, upper middle class, British, Oxbridge.. Anyhow I remember disproving this POV to one of the dons at college, by pointing out that the fellow wasn't privileged at all, because he wasn't from Yorkshire.

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[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

The battle of Minden? I should've known this involves beating up the French somehow!