There was once a row of houses called "Purim-Place" in London. This little bit from Isaac D'israeli's Curiosities of Literature explains how it came to be, it all started with a squabble about the lack of decorum during the megillah. This occurred in 1783 ("not long ago").
What had happened was, things got kind of crazy, and the Mahamad, or synagogue board, issued a regulation coming down hard on the lack of decorum, and enforced it that year with constables.
One member of the mahamad was outraged, and it all snowballed from there. He withdrew from the congregation, and at some point in a very odd show of something-I'm-not-sure-what named the houses he built Purim-Place.
Here are some questions little Jewish boys and girls had, asked and answered in The Jewish Child, 1912-13.
Esther Apfelbaum, Hyman Norman, Dora Moskowitz, and Jacob Seworsky wanted to know "How did the Jews get the Yiddish language?"
Florence Cohen, Henrietta Hotz, Jacob Becker, and Hyman Rosen, proto-SAR students (cc @Doc_RPS) wished to know "Why do Jews have to wear a hat in the synagogue? and why are we not allowed to wear our hats in public school?"
Frieda Willensky and Reuben Caplan wanted to know "Why do we read Hebrew backwards?"
"This Mordechai said 'the [conditional] gett that Ansel Cohen had written yesterday [to divorce his wife in case he was imprisoned for gambling debts and could not return to England] is shit,' in the English language...'
London, 1705
Not surprisingly, the first bit of Hebrew-sefer printed matter in England was about a controversy, namely a gett, a bill of divorce, written by the 'chief rabbi 'of the Ashkenazim, Uri Phoebus Hamburger, known in English as Aaron Hart.
His enemies argued in a book printed in Amsterdam that, well, the gett was shit.