Details of Society and Section abbreviations and who to contact for further information are given at the end of the diary. The group initials are also clarified, along with contact details for the secretary/organiser for the Group. The area codes refer to the three traditional Ridings of Yorkshire - East (ER), North (NR) or West (WR) or Claremont (Cl), to help you identify meetings of interest in your area.

All meetings, except those of affiliated societies, are at Claremont unless otherwise stated in the meeting / event column. For affiliated societies, details of meeting places where advised are given at the back of this diary, unless indicated in the entry. Joint events are highlighted in yellow.

DATE		TIME	GROUP	VENUE	EVENT
September 2009
Sat	12	14.00	YAS	Cl	Heritage Open Day
Sat	12	14.30	HAS	NY	Lindsey Allason-Jones: Women of the Roman North
Tue	15	19.30	ERAS	EY	A round up of recent fieldwork in the region
Thu	17	19.30	OHS	NY	Derek Long: The Sevres Dessert Service des Arts Industriels. A unique pictorial record of crafts in Paris around 1820
Sat	19	11.00	FHS	Cl	Peter Higginbotham: Gruelling experiences – 300 years of the Workhouse.
Sat	19	14.00	YAS	Cl	Management Board
Sun	20	All day	IAG	NY	Walk on Malham Lings, led by David Johnson
Fri	25	12.30	NYCRO/NDLHS	NY	Dorothy Edwards: Landscape History Sources for Local Historians
Sat	26	14.00	RAS	Cl	Lee Hyland: Roman Holderness & Richard Campbell: Glass Bangles in the Hull Valley
Sun	27	All day	PreH	NY	Visit to prehistoric sites on the Ingleborough Terraces. Yvonne Luke & the Ingleborough Archaeology Group will guide us around a variety of sites. Contact Meetings Sec. Maureen Berlin via Claremont for details.
Sun	27	All day	YVBSG	NY	Conference Review Day, to draw together & review information from the year’s recording conference in Carlton-in-Coverdale, North Yorkshire
Mon	28	19.30	UWFS	NY	Josephine Drake: Tolls & the King’s Highway
Mon	28	20.00	ELHS	WY	Martin Cocker: Leeds’ Own Air VC
October
Fri	2	19.45	HDAS	WY	Adam Goldwater: The ins & outs of Roman latrines – confessions of a toilet hunter
Sat	3	11.00	IHS	Cl	Judy Jones: Waterways Heritage
Mon	5	19.30	YPS	NY	Michael Woolfson: On the origins of plants
Tue	6	19.15	TS	WY	Trish Colton & Diane Holloway: The Knights Templar, with special reference to Temple Newsam
Thu	8	19.30	FoG	NY	Sam Watson: The Sahara – Pilgrim through a barren land
Thu	8	19.30	SCHS	NY	Michael Bradford: Yorkshire – Whatever happened to the Ridings?
Fri	9	14.00	PRS	Cl	A.G.M.
Sat	10	14.30	YGS	NY	Susan Kellerman: Use & Ornament: Bath Houses in English Gardens & Parks, 1688-1815
Sat	10	14.30	HAS	NY	Kurt Hunter-Mann: New light on Anglo-Saxon settlements in East Yorkshire
Sun	11	All day	NYNPA/YAS	NY	Neolithic & Bronze Age Yorkshire: recent work. In recognition of Terry Manby’s contribution to Neolithic & Bronze Age studies in Yorkshire. Helmsley Arts Centre. Contact g.lee@northyorkmoors-npa.gov.uk for details.
Mon	12	19.30	UWFS	NY	Martin Roe: The archaeology of mining
Thu	15	19.30	OHS	NY	Susan Wrathmell: Skipton Buildings, some results of the Community Research Project
Fri	16	19.15	PDAS	WY	Tony Wilmott: Britain’s Roman Ampitheatres
Sat	17	11.00	FHS	Cl	David Allen: The essence of a Georgian Gentleman
Sun	18	All day	YVBSG	NY	Guisborough Study Day
Mon	19	19.30	IAG	NY	A.G.M., followed by David Johnson: Stone Structures of Ireland
Mon	19	19.30	YPS	NY	David Jenkins: How to read a stellar barcode
Tue	20	17.30	IMS	WY	Felicitas Schmieder, FernUniversität Hagen Medieval Global History: Time and Space on Mappae Mundi Room 1.08, Parkinson Building
Wed	21	19.30	ERAS	EY	Peter Connelly: The Hungate Dig Project, York
Thu	22	19.30	SCHS	NY	Barry Wilkinson: Yorkshire Potteries, Pots & Potters
Mon	26	19.30	UWFS	NY	Helen Caffrey: Almshouses: form, function & meaning
Mon	26	19.30	YPS	NY	Colin Philpott: The future of the Media in the Digital Age
Mon	26	20.00	ELHS	WY	Michele Lefevre: Haunted Leeds
Fri	30	12.30	NYCRO/NDLHS	NY	Joan Heggie: Steelmarking woodcuts – Discovering a twentieth century artist: Viva Talbot of Solberge Hall
Sat	31	All day	PLACE	NR	The Prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales, Devonshire Institute, Grassington
November
Mon	2	19.30	YPS	NY	Michael Fulford: Excavations on the Iron Age & Roman town at Silchester: managing change in the 1st century AD
Tue	3	19.15	TS	WY	Martin Roe: The History of Middleton Park
Fri	6	19.45	HDAS	WY	Trevor Pearson: Surveying the past: the work of the English Heritage Landscape investigation team
Sat	7	11.00	IHS	Cl	Outwood Community Video Group: The quest for Coal
Mon	9	19.30	UWFS	NY	Group reports
Thu	12	19.30	SCHS	NY	John Holroyd: Cromford & High Peak Railway
Sat	14	14.30	YGS	NY	Graham Parry: Sidney Smith: Regency radical, reformer & wit
Sat	14	14.30	HAS	NY	Katherine Baxter: Kirkstall Abbey: history & conservation
Mon	16	19.30	IAG	NY	Tony Stephens: Cattle droving – the Birtwhistles of Craven & Galloway ‘the greatest graziers & dealers in the Kingdom’
Mon	16	19.30	YPS	NY	Sam Watson: Celestial Navigation – follow your star
Wed	18	19.30	ERAS	EY	Kevin Walsh: Ten years of landscape archaeology in the southern French Alps - Life above 2000m from the Mesolithic through to the Middle Ages
Thu	19	19.30	OHS	NY	Mike Dixon: Darwin in Ilkley
Fri	20	19.15	PDAS	WY	Muriel Tucker: Potions & Lotions – medicine & make-up in the 16th & 17th centuries
Sat	21	10.00	RS	NR	Record Series meeting, Borthwick Institute
Sat	21	11.00	FHS	Cl	Jackie Reed: Matilda’s House
Sat	21	14.00	RAS	Cl	Peter Halkon: Millington – a possible Roman religious centre in its landscape
Mon	23	19.30	UWFS	NY	Roger Pyrah: Darwin & a forgotten Victorian Naturalist
Tue	24	17.30	IMS	WY	Gareth Williams, The British Museum, London The Conquest of the Northern Danelaw in the Light of the Vale of York Hoard Room 1.08, Parkinson Building
Thu	26	19.30	SCHS	NY	Neil Hanson: Great Fire of London – 1st London Blitz 1918
Fri	27	12.30	NDLHS/ NYCRO	NY	Michael Stansfield: Allertonshire Records in the Durham Archives
Sat	28	10.00	YAS	Cl	Management Board
Sat	28	14.30	YAS	Cl	Council Meeting
Mon	30	19.30	YPS	NY	Richard de Grijs: When galaxies collide
Mon	30	20.00	ELHS	WY	Martin Lightfoot: Scholes Farm Excavation
December
Tue	1	19.15	TS	WY	Eileen White: Watty’s Birthday 1763: A Leeds family celebrates
Fri	4	19.45	HDAS	WY	Terry Brown: DNA & the Ancient World
Sat	5	11.00	IHS	Cl	Nigel Grizzard: Regenerating Yorkshire’s mills & historic warehouses
Sat	5	14.00	PreH	Cl	Peter Halkon: Iron & the Arras Culture – Putting the Iron back into Iron Age East Yorkshire. Daryl Garton: Derek Riley’s Nottinghamshire Cropmark Landscapes Revisited
Thu	10	19.30	SCHS	NY	George Redmonds: Surnames of Skipton & District
Sat	12	14.00	MS	Cl	A.G.M.
Sat	12	14.30	YGS	NY	Katherine Webb: Early years of the York Georgian Society: Preservation, Education, Betterment & Design
Sat	12	14.30	HAS	NY	Andrew Morrison: The Yorkshire Museum: its treasures & its future
Mon	14	19.30	UWFS	NY	Geoff Garrett: Ongoing Project in Freeholders Wood, Aysgarth
Mon	14	19.30	YPS	NY	Members evening
Wed	16	19.30	ERAS	EY	Steve Roskhams: Barcombe, Devon- an early post Roman coastal trading site
Thu	17	19.30	OHS	NY	John Hudson: The Work of the English Country Potter: its relevance to ceramic technology from Roman times to the Post-Medieval period
Fri	18	19.15	PDAS	WY	Simon Tomson: Tunisia – land of mosaics
Sat	19	11.00	FHS	Cl	John Wallis: The Golden Age of Music Hall & Variety
Mon	21	19.30	IAG	NY	Bill Mitchell: Ribblehead Viaduct: a Victorian workforce
January 2010
Sun	3	14.30	YPS	NY	Jon Purdy: The Physics of Computer Games
Mon	4	19.30	YPS	NY	Ruth Swetnam: Mapping the Land Use of Britain: 80 years of innovation
Thu	7	19.15	TS	Cl	Members Evening, Vine Joss: The Barrister & the Quaker ; Anne Wilkinson: The Development of Roundhay as a Victorian suburb
Fri	8	19.45	HDAS	WY	Derek Bayliss: Wortley Top Forge: an industrial monument
Sat	9	11.00	IHS	Cl	Mike Buckley: Early water mills in Saddleworth
Sat	9	14.30	YGS	NY	Alistair Massie: The British Army of Georgian England
Sat	9	14.30	HAS	NY	Pam White: Hungate
Mon	11	19.30	UWFS	NY	David Alred: Natural History – Visual Mixture
Tue	12	19.00	NDLHS	NY	Members Evening, John Parkinson: Yorkshire sledges & sledways
Thu	14	19.30	SCHS	NY	Social evening – short talks, quizzes
Fri	15	19.15	PDAS	WY	The Don Lodge Memorial Lecture, Eric Houlder: Dark Age routes through Pontefract
Sat	16	11.00	FHS	Cl	Derek Morgan: Directories – A practical session
Mon	18	19.30	IAG	NY	Members of the Committee: A review of the IAG Field Activities 2009
Mon	18	19.30	YPS	NY	The Michael Clegg Memorial lecture, speaker to be confirmed
Thu	21	19.30	ERAS	EY	Steve Malone: The landscape of the Witham valley with new evidence from LiDAR survey
Thu	21	19.30	OHS	NY	Bill Barber: A Fine Wood of Mr. Aislabies’: an 18th century visitor’s view of Hackfall
Sat	23	14.00	RAS	Cl	Norman Redhead: What’s new in & around Roman Manchester
Mon	25	19.30	UWFS	NY	Members’ evening
Mon	25	20.00	ELHS	WY	Keith Barbour: Photos of Leeds from the 40’s, 50’s & 60’s
Thu	28	19.30	SCHS	NY	Mike Dixon: Ilkley & the Water Cure
Fri	29	12.30	NDLHS/ NYCRO	NY	Geoff Keeble: Pray for the poor of This Parish
February
Mon	1	19.30	YPS	NY	Tim Skelton: Lutyens & the Great War
Tue	2	19.15	TS	WY	Alan Radford: The Borough Waits: The Corporation Musicians, their history & music
Fri	5	19.45	HDAS	WY	Karen Exell: Ancient Eygpt at Manchester: workers’ town & royal cities
Sat	6	11.00	IHS	Cl	John Meredith: Steam Traction on the roads
Sat	6	14.30	YGS	NY	A.G.M., followed by Stephen Lloyd: Edinburgh’s Skating Minister: A sporting picture or a cultural Icon?
Mon	8	19.30	UWFS	NY	Tim Thom: Re-establishing Dormice in the Dales
Tue	9	19.00	NDLHS	NY	Martin Lightfoot: Why ‘Land of the Prince Bishops?’
Thu	11	19.30	SCHS	NY	Don McLellen: Vernacular architecture
Sat	13	14.30	HAS	NY	Wendy Child: The Bordeaux wine trade in the middle ages
Mon	15	19.30	IAG	NY	Angus Winchester & Eleanor Straughton: The Contested Commons Land Project – the final report
Mon	15	19.30	YPS	NY	Paul O’Higgins: Modelling skull growth in evolution, health & disease: statistics & biomechanics of form
Wed	17	19.30	ERAS	EY	Peter Halkon: Archaeology & environment in a changing East Yorkshire landscape: The Foulness Valley c. 800 BC to c. AD 400
Thu	18	19.30	OHS	NY	Don McLellan: The Buildings of the Settle to Carlisle Railway
Fri	19	19.15	PDAS	WY	Tony Birkitt: Lincoln from Roman times to the 21st century
Sat	20	11.00	FHS	Cl	Alexandra Eveleigh: Digital Archives
Mon	22	19.30	UWFS	NY	Alan King: Farmsteads & Farming during the Roman period on Craven Limestone
Mon	22	20.00	ELHS	WY	Pam Judkins: Old for New – Excavations in the Wakefield area
Tue	23	17.30	IMS	WY	Constant Mews, Monash University, Victoria Holy theft: The Relics of St Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Competing Visions of Reform on the Eve of the Great Schism Room 1.08, Parkinson Building
Thu	25	19.30	SCHS	NY	Martin Roe: Middleton Park, Leeds, Mining Sites Survey
March
Mon	1	19.30	YPS	NY	Penelope Dawson-Brown: Beauty, for Beauty’s Sake – the story of the Ancient Society of York Florists
Tue	2	19.15	TS	WY	Danny & Helen Kennally: The Bank: A Leeds Irish Community, 1830-1930
Wed	3	19.30	FoG	NY	Peter McDonald: Bridles revisited: a rural ride through Middle England
Fri	5	19.45	HDAS	WY	Stephen Sherlock: A Royal Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Street House, NE Yorkshire
Sat	6	11.00	IHS	Cl	Chris Rule: The growth of Rural Industry: the example of Sherburn & South Milford
Sat	6	14.00	PreH	Cl	Rachel Pope: Prehistoric Houses & Households: Recent Work in Northern Britain. followed by the A.G.M.
Mon	8	19.30	UWFS	NY	Tom Hay: Water power in the Yorkshire Dales
Tue	9	19.00	NDLHS	NY	Erik Matthews: New findings on Harlsey Castle, Northallerton
Thu	11	19.30	SCHS	NY	John Billingsley: Folklore Tales from Calderdale
Sat	13	All day	YVBSG/YAS	WY	Day School, Carnegie College, Leeds
Sat	13	14.30	HAS	NY	Nicky Milner: Starr Carr
Mon	15	19.30	IAG	NY	Graeme Swindles: Catastrophic Climate Change in the Yorkshire Dales
Mon	15	19.30	YPS	NY	The Tempest Anderson Lecture. Rob Newton: Infection & Cancer
Wed	17	19.30	ERAS	EY	David Walker: Experimental pottery kiln firings- recent research
Tue	18	17.30	IMS	WY	Paul R. Hyams, Cornell University Serfdom Without Strings: Amartya Sen in the Middle Ages Room 1.08, Parkinson Building
Thu	18	19.30	OHS	NY	David Templeman: Mary, Queen of Scots, the Captive Queen
Fri	19	19.15	PDAS	WY	Brian Mason: Lead mining & smelting in the Grassington area
Sat	20	11.00	FHS	Cl	Simon Morgan: Women & Civic Culture in Victorian Leeds
Sat	20	14.00	RAS	Cl	David Mattingly: An Imperial Possession. Changing perspectives on Britain in the Roman Empire
Sat	20	14.30	YGS	NY	Mark Newman: The Wonder of the North: the designed landscapes of Studley Royal
Mon	22	19.30	UWFS	NY	Raistrick Lecture, Rob Stoneman: Yorkshire peatlands & the Carbon sponge efffect
Thu	25	19.30	SCHS	NY	Tony Stephens: Birtwhistle Family of Galloway & Craven
Mon	29	19.30	YPS	NY	Ewan Anderson: Iraq: making the most of the fiasco
Mon	29	20.00	ELHS	WY	John Claridge: History of the Supermarine Spitfire
April
Sat	3	10.30	IHS	Cl	A.G.M. & Members’ meeting
Tue	6	19.15	TS	WY	A.G.M., followed by Christopher Webster: R.D.Chantrell:The Leeds Architect & his work
Thu	8	19.30	SCHS	NY	Stephen Caunce: Yorkshire Hiring Fairs
Sat	10	11.00	IHS	Cl	A.G.M. & Members’ Session
Mon	12	19.30	YPS	NY	Alison McFarlane: Florence Nightingale & Statistics
Tue	13	19.00	NDLHS	NY	Ruth Blakely: The de Brus family in Yorkshire
Thu	15	19.30	OHS	NY	A.G.M., followed by Ian Roberts: The Ferrybridge Henge Excavation
Fri	16	19.15	PDAS	WY	Margaret Curry: Through glass brightly – English stained glass windows
Sat	17	11.00	FHS	Cl	Edgar Holroyd-Doveton: England’s Turnpike Road System
Sat	17	All Day	NYDNP	NR	Day School at Grassington
Mon	19	19.30	IAG	NY	Dave McLeod: tba
Tue	20	17.30	IMS	WY	Godfried Croenen, University of Liverpool Un rommant des fais d'un nommé Froissart et un Ovide": marketing historical non-fiction in 15th-century Paris Room 1.08, Parkinson Building
Wed	21	19.00	ERAS	EY	A.G.M., followed by Rod Mackey: Andies, Incas & Indians – recollections of the Cusicha project in Peru
Thu	22	19.30	SCHS	NY	A.G.M., followed by Hedley Fawcett: The History of Mystery
Fri	23	19.15	PDAS	WY	A.G.M.
Mon	26	19.30	YPS	NY	Steve Atkin: Obesity: stopping the ticking time bomb
Mon	26	20.00	ELHS	WY	Eric Wright: York Minster Followed by Pie & Pea supper
May
Mon	10	19.30	YPS	NY	Linda French: Hearing with the eye: the life & work of John Goodricke
Tue	11	19.00	NDLHS	NY	President’s Evening, Tony Nicholson: The Hellfire Club & Crazy Castle
Fri – Sun	14-16	All day	YVBSG		Vernacular Buildings Recording Conference, venue to be announced
Sat	15	11.00	FHS	Cl	A.G.M. followed by Susan Deal: ‘Skivvy’, domestic service in Middle Class Homes
Sat	15	All Day	OHS	NY	Pike & Musket: Civil war in Yorkshire 1642-45
Mon	17	19.30	YPS	NY	tbc
Sat	22	14.00	RAS	Cl	Andrew Birley: New Research at Vindolanda
Mon	24	19.30	YPS	NY	Viola Jones: Married to the Minster: being Mrs Dean
Sat	29	14.00	YAS	Cl	Council meeting
June
Tue	8	19.00	NDLHS	NY	Erik Matthews: Guided tour of Harlsey Castle
Sat	19	11.00	FHS	Cl	Trish Colton & Diane Holloway: The Knights Templar in Yorkshire
Sat	26	14.00	YAS	Cl	A.G.M., followed by a speaker, tba
Mon	28	20.00	ELHS	WY	Betty Smithson: The History of Seacroft Hospital
July
Sat	10	All Day	FHS	Cl	Day School, more information later.
Tue	13	19.00	NDLHS	NY	Yarm Civic Society: Tour of Historic Yarm
Sat	17		FHS	Cl	Problem-solving session
Wed-Fri	21 – 30	All week	WLHS		Pontefract to Fotheringhay: A journey along the funeral route of Richard, Duke of York, killed at the Battle of Wakefield 1460, reburied at Fotheringhay 1476
August
Tue	10	19.00	NDLHS	NY	Terry Suthers: The Lascelles family of Northallerton & Harewood
November
Sat	13	All Day	YAS/RAS	York	The End of the Roman North: Roman to Anglo-Saxon in Northern England followed by a Special Keynote Lecture from 'north of the border' on The Traprain Law Hoard

There are a number of other events which are still to be finalised will be publicised via Update and enclosures in mailings.
If any member wishes to bring any matter to the attention of the Management Board or the Council, they should contact the Hon. Gen. Secretary at Claremont in writing. Meetings are held regularly and any topic raised will be brought to the attention of the relevant body.