Programme of Events for 2008-2009
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 | |||||
| Sat | 13 | 14.00 | FHS | Cl | Roy Stockdill, Mary Bateman, The Yorkshire Witch |
| Sat | 13 | 14.00 | HAS | NR | The English Heritage North Territory Collections |
| Tue | 16 | 19.00 | NDLHS | NR | Shirley Hamilton, York & Its Minster – Their Hidden Secrets |
| Wed | 17 | 19.30 | ERAS | ER | Reports Meeting, A Round-Up On Recent Fieldwork In The Region |
| Thu | 18 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | Arnold Pacey, Wharfedale Bridges |
| Sun | 21 | All day | YVBSG | NR | Burnsall & Thorpe Conference Review And Visit To Thorpe |
| Thu | 25 | 19.30 | FoG | NR | Liz Andrew Wilson, The Harrogate Hoard |
| Sat | 27 | 14.00 | RAS | Cl | John Hind, River Names & Place Names In North Britain |
| Mon | 29 | 20.00 | ELHAS | WR | Eric Houlder, Mortal Remains |
| Mon | 29 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Michael Lovitt, Origins & Roles Of The Green Man |
| October | |||||
| Fri | 3 | 19.45 | HDAS | WR | Roger Martlew, Current Research In Upper Wharfedale |
| Sat | 4 | 10.00 | TM | WR | Paul Belchetz, Messengers In The Blood: A History Of Hormones: Harold Ellis, Artists & The Anatomists: How They Worked Together |
| Tue | 7 | 19.15 | TS | WR | Kevin Grady, The Ingenuous Mr. Thoresby: First Historian Of Leeds |
| Thu | 9 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Peter Gibson, Reflections On The Stained Glass Of York Minster |
| Sat | 11 | 11.00 | IHS | Cl | David Perrett, Days At The Factories |
| Sat | 11 | All day | SPLHG | WR | Historic Pennine Landscapes: A Study Day |
| Sat | 11 | 14.00 | HAS | NR | Christina Lee, Feasting The Dead: Food & Drink In Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals |
| Sat | 11 | 14.30 | YGS | NR | Christopher Ridgeway, A Different Kind Of Planning: Sculpture On Monuments In The Gardens At Castle Howard |
| Mon | 13 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Mike Atkinson, A Life With Plants |
| Tue | 14 | 19.30 | NDLHS | NR | A.G.M., Followed By Colin Narromore, More Postcards & Photos Of Old Northallerton On The Big Screen |
| Wed | 15 | 19.30 | YAYAS | NR | David Neave, East Riding Village Estate |
| Wed | 15 | 19.30 | ERAS | ER | Vicki Score, Ritual, Hoards & Helmets |
| Thu | 16 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | Richard Morris, Looking For Loidis |
| Fri | 17 | 14.00 | PRS | Cl | A.G.M. |
| Fri | 17 | 7.15 pm | PDAS | WR | Janet Mcnaught, The Node To Know |
| Sat | 18 | 14.00 | FHS | Cl | Sue Seeger, The Evolution Of The Modern Miss |
| Mon | 20 | 19.30 | IAG | WR | A.G.M., Followed By Carol Howard, An Exploration Of The Pictish Stones Of Scotland |
| Thu | 23 | 19.30 | FoG | NR | David Copeland, Is Your House Called Windy Ridge? - W. Riley, The Forgotten Yorkshire Author |
| Thu | 23 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Alan Plowright, John Henry's Walk |
| Sat | 25 | All day | MS |
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Field Systems Through Time: Prehistory To Modern |
| Mon | 27 | 20.00 | ELHAS | WR | Jacki & Bob Lawrence, Cross Gates - Past & Present |
| Mon | 27 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Peter Laycock, Yorkshire’s Greatest Lady? Lady Anne Clifford |
| November | |||||
| Sat | 1 | 10.00 | TM | WR | Philip Robinson, Transparent Man, A History Of X Rays & Medical Language, John Marks, The NHS: Beginning, Middle & End? |
| Tue | 4 | 19.15 | TS | WR | John Dixon, The Effects Of The Black Death In Leeds |
| Fri | 7 | 19.45 | HDAS | WR | Peter Halkon, Iron and the Arras culture |
| Sat | 8 | 11.00 | IHS | Cl | David Mcleod, The Use Of Aerial Photography In Mapping Past Industrial & Military Sites |
| Sat | 8 | 14.30 | YGS | NR | James Lomax, Chinoiserie Silver in England 1660 to 1830 |
| Sat | 8 | 14.00 | HAS | NR | Dave Saintly, From The Ice Age To The Anglo-Saxon Period In The Don Gorge |
| Tue | 11 | 19.30 | NDLHS | NR | Mark Whyman, Arts & Crafts Buildings & Gardens In The Region |
| Tue | 11 | 19.30 | YPS/RGS/ PLACE |
NR | Ted Green, Our Ancient Trees - The Last Remnants Of Europe's 'Rain Forest': What Can We Learn From Them? |
| Thu | 13 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Kath Fishwick, Early Days Of Weaving |
| Sat | 15 | 11.00 | FHS | Cl | Rob Ellis, Yorkshire Asylums & The Poor Law |
| Mon | 17 | 19.30 | IAG | WR | John Cruse, What Have Querns Ever Done For Us? |
| Tue | 18 | 19.30 | YPS | NR | James Walvin, The Trader, The Owner & The Slave |
| Wed | 19 | 19.30 | ERAS | ER | Kevin Leahy, Interrupting The Pots: Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Cemetery |
| Wed | 19 | 19.30 | YAYAS | NR | Steve Sherlock, Street Houses |
| Thu | 20 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | Tom Lord, The Giggleswick Scar Project |
| Fri | 21 | 19.15 | PDAS | WR | Martin Roe, Historical Mining In Middleton Park |
| Sat | 22 | 14.00 | RAS | Cl | Liz Andrews-Williams, Recent Roman Finds In Yorkshire |
| Mon | 24 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Alison Armstrong, Ships’ Timbers? A Look At Re-Used Timber In Old Buildings |
| Mon | 24 | 20.00 | ELHAS | WR | Katherine Baxter, The New Leeds Museum |
| Thu | 27 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Mike Dixon, By Rail To Bolton Abbey |
| Sat | 28 | 14.00 | PreH | Cl | Stuart Noone & Simon Jeffery, Traversing The Pennines – New Sites Along The Gas Pipeline Between Lancaster & Goole |
| Thu | tba | 19.30 | FoG | NR | Mark Whyman, tba |
| December | |||||
| Tue | 2 | 19.15 | TS | WR | Simon Riches & Adrian Budge, Gunning For Leeds? Defending The City In The English Civil War |
| Tue | 2 | 19.30 | YPS | NR | Arthur Macgregor, Darwin, Antiquity & The Museum |
| Fri | 5 | 19.45 | HDAS | WR | Adam Goldwater, The ins and outs of Roman Latrines: Confessions of a toilet hunter |
| Sat | 6 | 11.00 | IHS | Cl | Ian Dougill, Leeds Transport – Old Leeds In A New Format |
| Sat | 6 | 14.00 | MS | Cl | A.G.M., Christmas Party & Lecture – Peter Brears |
| Sat | 6 | 10.00 | TM | WR | Monty Losowsky, Alcohol & Illness: The Wrath Of Grapes; John Cotterill, Shakespeare As A Dermatologist; A Remarkable Insight Into Skin Disease |
| Sat | 6 | 14.30 | YGS | NR | Hugh Belsey, Gainsborough & Yorkshire |
| Mon | 8 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | John Flood, Expedition In Pantanal, Brazil |
| Tue | 9 | 19.30 | NDLHS | NR | John Buglass, Shipwrecks On The Yorkshire Coast |
| Thu | 11 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Sarah Greenwood, Postal History From 1840 Onwards |
| Sat | 13 | 14.00 | FHS | Cl | Ken Goor, Leeds & Yorkshire Christmas Traditions |
| Sat | 13 | 14.00 | HAS | NR | Stephen Sherlock, Excavation Of An Iron Age & Later Settlement At Streethouse, North East Yorkshire |
| Mon | 15 | 19.30 | IAG | WR | Ian Lockwood, The Unscrupulous Scribblers Of The Craven Herald - An Account Of A Libel Case In 1911 Involving The Then Home Secretary |
| Wed | 17 | 19.30 | ERAS | ER | Peter Wilson, Cawthorn Camps: Beyond Camps And 'Officer's Dug Outs' |
| Wed | 17 | 19.30 | YAYAS | NR | tba |
| Thu | 18 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | Simon Tomson, The Luttrell Psalter, Themes From Medieval Life |
| Fri | 19 | 19.15 | PDAS | WR | Janet Niepokojczycka, The Magical Isle Of Colonsay |
| January | |||||
| Sat | 3 | 19.30 | YPS | NR | Peter Thompson, What Do Optical Illusions Tell About Us? |
| Thu | 8 | 19.15 | TS | WR | Members Evening - Roy Yates, St. Saviour's Church & The Oxford Movement; Peggy Pullen, Monuments As A Reflection Of Public Figures, Public Events & The History Of Leeds |
| Fri | 9 | 19.45 | HDAS | WR | Julian Thomas, The Stonehenge Riverside Project : exploring the prehistoric landscape of Stonehenge |
| Sat | 10 | 11.00 | IHS | Cl | David Johnson, Lime Burning In The Gritstone Pennines |
| Sat | 10 | 14.00 | HAS | NR | Mick Stanley, The Building Of Harewood House |
| Sat | 10 | 10.00 | TM | WR | David Pring, Bogus Doctors & Medical Imposters; Michael Farthing, Nicholas Culpepper, Herbalist & Medical Astrologer: London's First General Practitioner? |
| Sat | 10 | 14.30 | YGS | NR | Frank Salmon, From York to Westminster: The Dilemma of Palladian Public Architecture |
| Mon | 12 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Alex Gibson, Henges |
| Tue | 13 | 19.00 | NDLHS | NR | John Parkinson, New Research On Northallerton’s Early Waterways |
| Thu | 15 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | George Redmonds, New Grounds In Surname Studies |
| Fri | 16 | 19.15 | PDAS | WR | John Hudson, The Work Of The Country Potter, With Reference To Historic Ceramics |
| Sat | 17 | 11.00 | FHS | Cl | David Thornton, The Street Names Of Leeds |
| Mon | 19 | 19.30 | IAG | WR | A Review Of The IAG Field Activities For 2008 |
| Tue | 20 | 19.30 | YPS/YWT | NR | Brian Eversham, The Future Of Natural History |
| Wed | 21 | 19.30 | ERAS | ER | Nicky Milner, Star Carr |
| Wed | 21 | 19.30 | YAYAS | NR | tba |
| Thu | 22 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Social Evening |
| Sat | 24 | 14.00 | RAS | Cl | Steve Roskams, Recent Fieldwork At Heslington East & Its Implications For Our Understanding Of Roman York |
| Mon | 26 | 20.00 | ELHAS | WR | Ken Goor, The Darker Side Of Leeds |
| Thu | tba | 19.30 | FoG | NR | Toby Kendall, tba |
| February | |||||
| Tue | 3 | 19.15 | TS | WR | Malcolm Chase, The Northern Star & Leeds General Advertiser: Chartist Pioneer Of Newspaper Circulation Wars |
| Fri | 6 | 17.45 | HDAS | WR | tba |
| Sat | 7 | 11.00 | IHS | Cl | Chris Henderson, The Rise & Fall Of The Railways In Nidderdale |
| Sat | 7 | 10.00 | TM | WR | Martin Howard, Napoleon's Doctors: The Medical Services Of The Grande Armee; Stephen Golding, Looking Through Time: A History Of Spectacles |
| Mon | 9 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Morris Charlton, Netherside Hall Trail Project |
| Tue | 10 | 19.00 | NDLHS | NR | Jennifer Allison, Northallerton’s Medieval Hospital & Maison Dieu |
| Thu | 12 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Ian Appleyard, History Of Medicine |
| Sat | 14 | 11.00 | FHS | Cl | Vivien Teasdale, Cane & Able: A Teacher In The Family |
| Sat | 14 | 14.00 | HAS | NR | Wendy Childs, European Trade & Communications In The Middle Ages |
| Sat | 14 | 14.30 | YGS | NR | Dr George Sheeran, The Growth of Resort Towns in Yorkshire |
| Mon | 16 | 19.30 | IAG | WR | David Shotter, New Thoughts On The Roman Conquest Of The North West |
| Tue | 17 | 19.30 | YPS | NR | John Lawton, Darwin, Evolution & The Galapogos |
| Thu | 19 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | Sylvia Thomas, The Middleton Collection |
| Fri | 20 | 19.15 | PDAS | WR | Andrew Morrison, The Yorkshire Museum & Its Archaeological Marvels |
| Sat | 21 | 19.30 | ERAS | ER | Brendon Wilkins, Knowns Knowns, Knowns Unknowns & Unknowns Unknowns: Rumsfeldian Archaeology On The Irish Road Schemes |
| Sat | 21 | All Day | NYHES | NR | North Yorkshire Historic Environment Day School, Northallerton. Details in next Update |
| Mon | 23 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Mike Dixon, By Rail From Ilkley To Bolton Abbey |
| Mon | 23 | 8.00 pm | ELHAS | WR | John Gilleghan, The Magic Of The Yorkshire Dales |
| March | |||||
| Tue | 3 | 17.15 | TS | WR | Felicity Harrison, Leeds & Wakefield: Two Jebb Prisons |
| Fri | 6 | 19.45 | HDAS | WR | Bryan Sitch, Lindow Man : the next generation |
| Sat | 7 | 14.00 | PreH | Cl | Rachel Pope, Prehistoric Houses & Households: Recent Work In Northern Britain |
| Sat | 7 | 10.00 | TM | WR | Rosalie David, Ancient Egyptian Mummies & Modern Science; Mark Wilcox, Hospital-Acquired Infections: MRSA & C.Diff Are Our Modern Demons |
| Mon | 9 | 19.30 | UWFA | NR | George Ingle, Yorkshire Cotton Industry |
| Tue | 10 | 19.00 | NDHLS | NR | Erik Matthews, Recent Research On Hornby & Whorlton Castles |
| Thu | 12 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Barry Wilkinson, Ex Terra Lucem, Some Light On The Origins Of The Gas Industry |
| Sat | 14 | 14.00 | HAS | NR | Amy Cooper, The Harrogate Hoard: The Inside Story |
| Sat | 14 | 11.00 | IHS | Cl | Brian Mason, Lead Mining & Smelting In The Grassington Area |
| Sat | 14 | 14.00 | FHS | Cl | Ruth Strong, Pudsey: A 19th Century Mill Community |
| Sat | 14 | 14.30 | YGS | NR | Dr Patrick Eyres, The Creation and Restoration of the Georgian Landscape Garden at Wentworth Castle |
| Sat | 14 | All day | YVBSG/YAS | NR | Day School On Cruck Buildings, Beckett Park, Leeds |
| Mon | 16 | 19.30 | IAG | WR | Dan Elsworth, Recording Old Buildings - With Particular Reference To Recent Local Surveys At The Castle Hotel, Hornby, & Farm Buildings At Lupton & Biggins Hall |
| Tue | 17 | 19.30 | YPS | NR | Suzanne Paylor, The Poor Man's Darwin |
| Wed | 18 | 19.30 | ERAS | ER | James Gerrard, Excavations At Drapers Gardens, City Of London |
| Wed | 18 | 19.30 | YAYAS | NR | tba |
| Thu | 19 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | Stephen Dyke, At Private Risk For Public Service: The Stockton & Darlington Railway |
| Fri | 20 | 19.15 | PDAS | WR | Tony Morris, Paths & Roads Of England: Those Who Made Them & Those Who Used Them |
| Sat | 21 | 14.00 | RAS | Cl | Members Meeting |
| Sat/Sun | 21/22 | All Day | YAS/WLP/ FWA |
NR | Weekend conference and field trip, details in Update. |
| Sat | 21 | 14.30 | YPS | NR | Claire Patterson, Seeing Life Through A New Light |
| Mon | 23 | 19.30 | UWFS | NR | Sonia Wilkinson, 17th Century Decorative Plaster-Work In Wharfedale |
| Thu | 12 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Elizabeth Roberts, Neighbours & Neighbourhoods, 1900-1940 |
| Mon | 30 | 8.00 pm | ELHAS | WR | Mairian Mcdonald, Cambodia - From Angken Wat To The Khymer Rouge |
| April | |||||
| Fri | 3 | 19.45 | HDAS | WR | tba |
| Sat | 4 | 11.00 | IHS | Cl | A.G.M. & Members Session |
| Tue | 7 | 19.15 | TS | WR | A.G.M., Matthew Roberts, W.L. Jackson & The Politics Of Civic Virtue In Late Victorian Leeds |
| Thu | 9 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Robin Platt, Herbert Smith - Aircraft Designer |
| Mon | 13 | 19.30 | IAG | WR | John Bentley, Tba - Based On Researching The Local History Of Ingleton |
| Tue | 14 | 19.00 | NDHLS | NR | Abby Hunt, The Work Of English Heritage’s Landscape Detectives |
| Wed | 15 | 19.00 | ERAS | ER | A.G.M., Followed By Lisa Staves, Romanesque Metalwork In Lincolnshire |
| Wed | 15 | 19.30 | YAYAS | NR | tba |
| Thu | 16 | 19.30 | OHS | NR | George Sheeran, Sir Christopher Sykes & The Landscape Of Sledmere, Followed By The A.G.M. |
| Sat | 18 | 14.00 | FHS | Cl | Anne Cole, Bastardy Documents |
| Thu | 23 | 19.30 | SCHS | NR | Kevin Griffiths, Skipton's Town Crier & Town Criers Through The Ages |
| Fri | 24 | 19.15 | PDAS | WR | A.G.M. - Members Only |
| Sat | 25 | 14.30 | RAS/YAS/ YPS |
NR | Terry O’Connor, Un-Natural Selection? People & Animals In Roman Yorkshire, Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, York |
| Sat | 25 | All day | NYDNP/ YAS |
NR | Day School in Grassington. Detail in next Update |
| Mon | 27 | 20.00 | ELHAS | WR | Malcolm Wright, The History Of Armley Goal From 1844 |
| May | |||||
| Fri | 1 | 19.45 | HDAS | WR | tba |
| Sat | 9 | 11.00 | FHS | Cl | A.G.M. |
| Sat | 9 | 12.00 noon | FHS | Cl | Pat Clarke, Old Market Towns Of The North & South, Otley & Kingston Compared |
| Tue | 12 | 19.00 | NDHLS | NR | Ian Rothwell, The History Of Medicine From Superstition To Science |
| Sat/Sun | 14/15 | All day | YVBSG | NR | Annual Recording Conference, Idle, Bradford |
| Sat | 23 | 14.00 | RAS | Cl | Jeremy Taylor, Rural Roman Britain |
| June | |||||
| Tue | 9 | 19.00 | NDHLS | NR | Terry Suthers, The Lascelles Family Of Northallerton & Barbados, 1650-1850 |
| Sat | 13 | 14.00 | FHS | Cl | Staff Archivist, Sources For Family History In Rotherham Archives |
| Wed | 17 | 19.30 | YAYAS | NR | A.G.M. |
| Sun | 14 | All day | YVBSG | NR | Cruck Study Field Day, Details tba |
| Sun | 21 | All day | YVBSG | NR | Cruck Study Field Day, Details tba |
| July | |||||
| Sat | 11 | 14.00 | FHS | Cl | Members Meeting, The Ancestor I Would Most Like To Meet |
| Sun | 11 | All day | YVBSG | NR | Recording Training Day |
| Tue | 14 | 19.00 | NDHLS | NR | Peter Connelly, Urban Archaeology – The Hungate Dig In York |
Other events 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.