btw speaking of yorkshire day there’s a game called Thank Goodness You’re Here that is released today and it may or may not be based on the gleaming coaltown of my youth. it’s northern, it’s from the makers of untitled goose game and matt berry is in it and doing a hilarious impression of my accent like hello??? 10/10 love it
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It's Yorkshire Day! But what's Yorkshire? (Where is Yorkshire? Why is Yorkshire?) And why does everyone talk so funny?
Ay up, it’s Yorkshire Day! (Also Lammas or Lughnasadh; also the Feast Day for a couple of dozen saints, none of whom I feel are worth mentioning.)
What is Yorkshire? Well, it’s a large chunk of the north of England, the heartland of what in the Iron Age would have been Brigante territory.
Selected late Iron Age tribal territories
To some it’s God’s Own Country. To others simply the most…