Details of Society and Section abbreviations and who to contact for further information are given on the abbreviations page. 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 on the abbreviations page, unless indicated in the entry.

DATE	TIME	GROUP	VENUE	EVENT
September 2011
Sat 10th	14.00	FHS	Cl	Modern Yorkshire History Makers. John Hargreaves.
Sat 10th	14.30	HAS	NR	Marking time: the wall paintings of Pickering Church. Kate Giles.
Tue 13th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	A Hands-on History of Yorkshire. Gillian Hovell.
Wed 14th	19.30	RHS	NR	Curating the Bronte Parsonage. Alan Bentley.
Wed 14th	19.30	WHS	WR	More deadly than the Male. Phil Judkins.
Thu 15th	19.30	OHS	WR	The Portable Antiquities Scheme in West Yorkshire. Amy Downes.
Thu 15th	19.30	SHS	WR	AGM, followed by History of Pingle Mill, Delph, to the present day. Dot Gledhill.
Sat 17th	All day	CBA (Y)/ ERART	ER	Conference to celebrate the work of John Mortimer, 1911-2011.
Sun 18th	All day	IAG	WR	Prehistory on the Rocks: the cup & ring rock art of Ilkley Moor. Keith Boughey. Excursion.
Wed 21st	19.30	ERAS	ER	Reports Meeting – a round-up of recent fieldwork in the region.
Sat 24th	9.30-16.30	SPHG	WR	South Pennine Landscapes in Transition 1700-1914. Cost: £18 including lunch & refreshments.
Sat 24th	10.00	NYCRO	NR	Family History Skills Day (£25.00, incl. refreshment & lunch).
Sat 24th	14.00	RAS	Cl	Boudica to Raedwald. East Anglia's Relations with Rome. John Fairclough.
Sun 25th	All day	YVBSG		Recording Conference Review Day – Long Preston.
Mon 26th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Grade 1 listed – a vernacular building of Distinction. Roger Peel.
Mon 26th	20.00	ELHAS	WR	Yorkshire Dales Textile Mills. George Ingle.
Tue 27th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	Where from & whither – migration from the Dales in the 19th & early 20th Centuries. Christine Hallas, Duncan Bythell & Ron Spensley.
Tue 27th	19.30	YPS	NR	Museum gardens, their management & our approach to their future. Martin Watts.
Wed 28th	14.15	WLPS	NR	The Pound in your Pocket. Roger Dalladay.
October 2011
Sat 1st	14.00	YAS	Cl	Yorkshire Collections Lecture Sisters of Fortune: The First American Heiresses to Take England by Storm Jehanne Wake
Mon 3rd	19.30	SAHS	ER	The wall paintings in Pickering Church. Kate Giles.
Tue 4th	14.00	PRS	Cl	AGM
Tue 4th	19.15	TS	WR	The Bishop Blase processions in Leeds & Bradford: the end of an era. Peter Meredith.
Wed 5th	19.30	SDHS (SHS)	NR	Afghanistan. Anthony Fitzherbert.
Fri 7th	19.45	HDAS	WR	Will Ancient DNA Analysis ever become routine in Archaeology? Keri Brown.
Sat 8th	14.00	FHS	Cl	Digital Photography for Family Historians. Eric Houlder.
Sat 8th	14.30	HAS	NR	Why animal bones are the most important finds in archaeology. Terry O'Connor.
Mon 10th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Iron Age Nidderdale. Gill Hovell & Jim Brophy
Tue 11th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	AGM followed by Tales of Northallerton Past. Members session.
Tue 11th	19.30	YPS	NR	Green Chemistry: from cradle to grave. Avtar Matharu.
Wed 12th	19.30	RHS	NR	Woodcuts & Prints. Paul Kershaw.
Wed 12th	19.30	WHS	WR	Huddersfield Narrow Canal Bicentenary Year. Bob Gough.
Thu 13th	19.30	FoG	NR	The Sutton Hoo ship burials; Saxon royal treasure ships. Eric Houlder.
Thu 13th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Skivvy-Servants in the smaller Victorian house. Susan Deal.
Sat 15th	11.00	IHS	Cl	When is a slum not a slum? Peter Connelly.
Mon 17th	19.30	IAG	WR	AGM – followed by Post-medieval Ribblesdale: historical & palaeoecological evidence of farming & landscape change. Ian Whyte & Helen Shaw.
Mon 17th	19.30	SAHS	ER	Recent excavations at Street House: Neolithic – Roman. Steve Sherlock.
Tue 18th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	Where from & whither – migration from the Dales in the 19th & early 20th Centuries. (see above)
Wed 19th	19.30	ERAS	ER	Mitigation Impossible? The Conservation of Scheduled Monuments in Cultivation Project. Vince Holyoak.
Wed 19th	18.30 time change	YPS	NR	The French Air Force in York, 1944-45. Matthew Cobb.
Wed 19th	19.30	SDHS (DMH)	NR	Slides of the Dentdale in times past. Graham Dalton.
Thu 20th	19.30	OHS	WR	Lime-burning & the land, the role of lime in shaping the modern landscape. David Johnson.
Fri 21st	19.15	PDAS	WR	Britain’s Roman amphitheatres. Tony Wilmott.
Mon 24th	19.30	UWFS	NR	The Life-cycle of the Malham Peregrine falcons. Trevor Wood.
Tue 25th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	Where from & whither – migration from the Dales in the 19th & early 20th Centuries. (see above).
Wed 26th	14.15	WLPS	NR	Geology & Wine – from the Dinosaur Coast to Sancere. Alistair Bowden.
Wed 26th	19.30	SHS	WR	Domestic Linen Production in the West Riding. Liz Paget.
Thu 27th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Jaggermans Bridges on packhorse trails. Alan McEwen.
Sat 29th	9.45-16.30	PLACE	WR	Back from the Edge: the fall & rise of Yorkshire’s Wildlife. Centre in the Park, Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield.
Mon 31st	19.30	SAHS	ER	Chariot burials of Britain. Melanie Giles.
Mon 31st	20.00	ELHAS	WR	England Expects - the life of Horatio Nelson. Bryan W Fowles.
November 2011
Tue 1st	19.15	TS	WR	Regeneration & Persistence: an audio walk around Holbeck. Simon Bradley.
Tue 1st	19.30	YPS	NR	But a monkey shaved: human evolution through a mammalian lens. Sarah Elton
Wed 2nd	19.30	SDHS (SHS)	NR	Cemeteries of the Western Front. David Shackleton.
Fri 4th	19.45	HDAS	WR	Leeds City Museum – rebirth of a museum. C. Hall.
Sat 5th	All Day	NYCRO	NR	Family History Beginners Day.
Tue 8th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	Songs of dead laughter, the remarkable Bells of Rounton. Graham Best.
Wed 9th	19.00	TS	Cl	Thoresby Council Meeting.
Wed 9th	19.30	RHS	NR	Local Recipes before Mrs. Beeton. June Hall.
Wed 9th	19.30	WHS	WR	The Life & Times of the Knights Templar in Yorkshire. Trish Colton & Diane Holloway.
Thu 10th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Bolton Abbey – Yorkshire Estate of the Duke of Devonshire. John Sheard
Sat 12th	All Day	WYAAS	WR	WYAAS Annual Day School, Royal Armouries. contact nwharton@wyjs.org.uk
Sat 12th	11.00	FHS	Cl	Edward Baines & the Leeds Mercury. David Thornton.
Sat 12th	14.30	HAS	NR	Kirkstall Abbey: history & conservation. Katherine Baxter.
Mon 14th	19.30	SAHS	ER	People & Deer in the Mesolithic. Ben Elliot.
Tue 15th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	What did they learn today – the village school, its people, life & times. Christine Godden.
Tue 15th	19.30	YPS/PLACE	NR	‘Letters from America’: 19th century emigrants writing home to Yorkshire. Michael Hopkinson.
Wed 16th	19.30	ERAS	ER	Recent Portable Antiquities finds from Lincolnshire. Adam Daubney.
Wed 16th	19.30	SDHS (SHS)	NR	Cumbrians on the Move. Susan Dench.
Thu 17th	19.30	OHS	WR	The Staffordshire Hoard. Joyce Hill.
Fri 18th	19.15	PDAS	WR	Christmas is Coming. Maurice & Dorothy Taylor.
Sat 19th	11.00	IHS	Cl	Lost lines of East Yorkshire. Victor Lee.
Sat 19th	14.00	RAS	Cl	Death on Hadrian's Wall, the Birdoswald cemetery & its implications. Tony Wilmott.
Mon 21st	19.30	IAG	WR	Craven Merchants & the Virgin Islands In the 19th century. Mike Winstanley.
Wed 23rd	14.15	WLPS	NR	A View from the Bench. Ken Gillance.
Thu 24th	19.30	FoG	NR	Explaining the background history of milestones & their importance to today's historic environment. Jeremy Howat.
Thu 24th	19.30	SCHS	NR	The funny side of the Law. Fiona King.
Thu 24th	19.30	SHS	WR	Newly Translated out of the original Tongues; the making & meaning of the authorized version of the bible: 1611. Alan Petford.
Sat 26th	10.30	Preh	Cl	Quern Survey Meeting.
Sat 26th	14.00	Preh	Cl	The Earliest Humans in the Yorkshire Dales: Understanding the Archaeological Record. Tom Lord; New Light on Old Stones: Recent Work on Neolithic Stone Axes in Britain. Mark Edmonds.
Mon 28th	19.30	SAHS	ER	Hungate – 5 years of the largest ever dig in York. Peter Connelly.
Mon 28th	19.30	UWFS	NR	The Bordley Archaeological project. Janis Heward.
Mon 28th	20.00	ELHAS	WR	East Leeds – Then & Now. Jacki & Bob Lawrence.
Tues 29th	19.30	YPS	NR	John Bowes Morrell, 1873-1963. Katherine Webb.
Wed 30th	19.30	SDHS (SHS)	NR	Lowther Castle & Garden. Andrew Mercer.
December 2011
Fri 2nd	19.45	HDAS	WR	Stonehenge – new discoveries. Mike Parker Pearson.
Sat 3rd	14.00	MS	Cl	tba
Tue 6th	19.15	TS	WR	Celebrating Christmas in Victorian Leeds. Janet Douglas.
Thu 8th	19.30	SCHS	NR	The Victorian passion for terracotta. Ian Adams.
Sat 10th	11.00	IHS	Cl	History of the Gas Industry. Barry Wilkinson.
Sat 10th	14.00	FHS	Cl	Music & Theatre in Leeds. Kitty Ross. Followed by Christmas social.
Sat 10th	14.30	HAS	NR	Recent archaeological investigations by the SAHS in & around Scarborough. Chris Hall.
Mon 12th	19.30	SAHS	ER	Mapping Millennia: the North York Moors National Mapping Programme. Tara-Jane Sutcliffe.
Mon 12th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Past Christmases in the Dales. Bill Mitchell.
Tue 13th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	The Lascelles family of Northallerton & Harewood, Part 2. Terry Suthers.
Tue 13th	19.30	YPS	NR	Friend & Foe: bacteria in health & disease. Marjan van der Woude.
Wed 14th	19.30	WHS	WR	Traditional Fare. Peter Brears.
Thu 15th	19.30	OHS	WR	The History of Walking. Colin Speakman.
Thu 15th	19.30	SHS	WR	Lloyd George & the People’s Budget. Alan Fowler.
Fri 16th	19.15	PDAS	WR	Door or Saddle? Recent research into the riding saddle in history. Paul Dawson.
Mon 19th	19.30	IAG	WR	Wrestlers, Crucks & Mullions . Andy Lowe.
Wed 21st	19.30	ERAS	ER	Street House Farm, North East Yorkshire: A multi period archaeological site. Steve Sherlock.
2012
January 2012
Fri 6th	19.45	HDAS	WR	Violence within the Iron Age. M. Giles
Sun 8th	14.30	YPS	NR	The Magic of Magnetic Liquids. Kevin O’Grady & Ian Helliwell – Family Lecture.
Mon 9th	17.30	SAHS	ER	Butlins Filey – the world’s largest holiday camp. Michael Fearon.
Mon 9th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Geology & Landscape of Southern Iceland. Pat Wherity.
Tue 10th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	The Castles & Churches of Lady Anne Clifford. Erik Matthews.
Tue 10th	19.30	YPS	NR	Excavations at Blossom Street and Roman settlement beyond the colonia. Ian Milsted
Wed 11th	19.30	RHS	NR	Kirby Malzeard’s History. Ian Corfield.
Wed 11th	19.30	WHS	WR	The Manor of Wakefield, its courts & court rolls. Sylvia Thomas.
Thu 12th	19.15	TS	Cl	Members’ Evening; The note books of Robert Pounder, woollen worker & friend of Robert Oastler. Ann Alexander; A Good Interment: the Leeds General Cemetery Company 1833-1965. Jim Morgan, followed by refreshments.
Thu 12th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Members Social evening.
Sat 14th	11.00	IHS	Cl	Water Power on Sheffield Rivers. Christine Ball.
Sat 14th	14.00	FHS	Cl	Lies, Damned Lies & Registration. Barbara Dixon.
Sat 14th	14.30	HAS	NR	William Aslabie's Studley Royal & beyond. (1742-1900). Mark Newman.
Mon 16th	19.30	IAG	NR	A review of the IAG Field Activities 2011 – Members of the Committee.
Tue 17th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	AGM & Members interests.
Wed 18th	19.30	ERAS	ER	Iron & Arras Culture: Power in the Landscape of Iron Age East Yorkshire. Peter Halkon.
Wed 18th	19.30	SDHS (SHS)	NR	Stone Circles & Burial Mounds. Tom Clare.
Thu 19th	19.30	OHS	WR	Ilkley to Bolton Abbey by rail. Mike Dixon.
Fri 20th	19.15	PDAS	WR	The Donald Lodge Memorial Lecture. The search for Pontefracts Broken Bridge: a historical detective mystery. Eric Houlder.
Sat 21st	14.00	RAS	Cl	Hadrian's Wall & the End of Empire. Rob Collins.
Mon 23rd	19.30	SAHS	ER	The charms of Mr Clarke. Karen Snowden.
Mon 23rd	19.30	UWFS	NR	Members Evening
Tue 24th	19.30	YPS	NR	Fifty Years of Lasers: Turning light into matter, from the basics to nuclear fusion and beyond. Nigel Woolsey
Wed 25th	14.15	WLPS	NR	Whitby Strand. Roger Pickles.
Wed 25th	19.30	SHS	WR	Ancient North Africa. Jim Carr.
Thu 26th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Waking the Dead. Francis Thornton.
Sat 28th	All day	YVBSG	CL	Visit to Claremont, including tour & talk on archives.
Mon 30th	20.00	ELHAS	WR	The History of Seacroft Hospital. Betty Smithson.
February 2012
Wed 1st	19.30	SDHS (SHS)	NR	Railway Navvies of Mallerstang. Ian Murray.
Thu 2nd	19.30	FoG	NR	AGM. followed by The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, York. Louise Wheatley.
Fri 3rd	19.45	HDAS	WR	Star Carr in the new Millennium – recent excavations at an iconic Mesolithic site. C. Conneller
Sat 4th	All Day	NYCRO	NR	Next Steps in Family History.
Mon 6th	19.30	SAHS	ER	The Military Defence of the Yorkshire Coast in the 20th century. Roger Thomas.
Tue 7th	19.15	TS	WR	An Evening presented by Morley Local History Group. Clive McManus.
Tue 7th	19.30	YPS	NR	The History of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Askham Bog Nature Reserve
Wed 8th	19.00	RHS	NR	tba
Wed 8th	19.30	WHS	WR	The Past from above: Aerial Archaeology in West Yorkshire. Matthew Oakley.
Thu 9th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Darwin in Ilkley. Mike Dixon.
Sat 11th	11.00	FHS	Cl	The Coal Industry in Yorkshire. Rosemary Preece.
Sat 11th	14.30	HAS	NR	The Cistercians in Yorkshire. Robert Wright.
Mon 13th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Wildlife Management of Ingleborough Nature Reserve. Colin Newlands.
Tue 14th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	A Great Nest of Vipers: John Balguy (1686 -1748), Vicar of Northallerton and the Bangorian Controversy, Dr John Gibbins
Wed 15th	19.30	ERAS	ER	The Archaeology of the Easington to Ganstead pipeline. Paul Flintoft.
Thu 16th	19.30	OHS	WR	John de Laund, a great Bolton Prior. John Dixon.
Thu 16th	19.30	SHS	WR	Rothwell of Oldham – sewing machines. cycles & cars, 1887-1923. Julia Dawson & John Warburton.
Fri 17th	19.15	PDAS	WR	Neolithic Long Cairns & Barrows of the Yorkshire Dales. Yvonne Luke.
Mon 20th	19.30	IAG	NR	tba
Mon 20th	19.30	SAHS	ER	tba
Tue 21st	14.00	MDLHG	NR	Unopened boxes – shedding light on the unexplored records in NYCRO. Keith Sweetmore.
Tue 21st	19.30	YPS	NR	Fifty Years of Lasers: Cold and trapped - using lasers to approach absolute zero. Andy Pratt
Tue 21st	19.15	PDAS	WR	St Richard's Friary Excavations 2011 A public meeting to report on the results of the dig
Wed 22nd	14.15	WLPS	NR	Vanishing villages of West Middlesex. Mark Edwards.
Wed 22nd	19.00	TS	Cl	Thoresby Council meeting.
Wed 22nd	19.30	SDHS (DMH)	NR	Packhorse Ways, Packhorse Days. Janet Niepokozyeka.
Thu 23rd	19.30	SCHS	NR	Foulridge – a village in Wartime. Hazel Wilkinson.
Sat 25th	11.00	IHS	Cl	Bus Manufacture in Leeds. Chris Wise.
Sat 25th	10.30		WR	Dearne Valley Archaeology Day
Mon 27th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Textiles pre-mechanisation. Sonia Wilkinson.
Mon 27th	20.00	ELHAS	WR	A Pictorial History of Quarry Hill. Louise Ann Hand.
Wed 29th	19.30	FoG	NR	The Eighteenth Century Grand Tour. Joseph Fyles.
March 2012
Fri 2nd	19.45	HDAS/YAS	WR	tbc. Dominic Powesland
Sat 3rd	All Day	NYCRO	NR	Family History Skills Day
Sat 3rd	10.30	Preh	Cl	Quern Survey
Sat 3rd	14.00	Preh	Cl	The Stanbury Hill Project. Keith Boughey & Louise Brown, followed by the AGM.
Mon 5th	19.30	SAHS	ER	tba
Tue 6th	19.15	TS	WR	Behind the Postage Stamp: A history of letter writing from 1660-2011 with a focus on Leeds. David Wilson.
Wed 7th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	The view from some Dales Gardens & their history. Val Hepworth - three week course & field day (limited numbers).
Tue 6th	19.30	YPS	NR	The Invention of the Fact, 1453-1800. David Wootton
Wed 7th	19.30	SDHS (SHS)	NR	Curiosities of Cumbrian Churches. Trevor Hughes.
Thu 8th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Steeton Pill Boxes. Andrew Wade.
Sat 10th	All Day	NYCRO	NR	History Day. Harrogate Pavilions. Details from NYCRO, see address below.
Sat 10th	14.00	FHS	Cl	Mrs Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam – Victorian chatelaine extraordinaire. James Lomax.
Sat 10th	17.30	HAS	NR	American Letters: the experience of emigrants writing home to Yorkshire. Michael Hopkinson.
Sun 11th	14.30	YPS	NR	Are Olympic champions made or born?
Mon 12th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Restoration of 'Cowside' Langstrothdale Linda Lockett
Tue 13th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	The Talbot Family of Solberge Hall, Dr Joan Heggie
Wed 14th	19.00	RHS	NR	tba
Wed 14th	19.30	WHS	WR	AGM, & Members Evening.
Thu 15th	19.30	OHS	WR	Lead mining in the Yorkshire Dales. John Hobson.
Thu 15th	19.30	SHS	WR	Bernard Barnes Memorial Lecture: Buckton Castle: recent investigations & interpretations. Brian Grimsditch.
Fri 16th	19.15	PDAS	WR	A Tour around the Prehistoric Sites of Orkney. David & Anne Wandless.
Fri 16th	19.30	YPS	NR	Captain Oates: soldier, explorer, hero. Patrick Cordingley.
Sat 17th	14.00	RAS	Cl	Roman Querns in Yorkshire. John Cruse.
Mon 19th	19.30	IAG	NR	tba
Mon 19th	19.30	SAHS	ER	tba
Tue 20th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	The view from some Dales Gardens & their history. (see above)
Wed 21st	14.15	WLPS	NR	The Whitby Merchant Seamen’s Muster Rolls. Speaker tba.
Wed 21st	19.30	ERAS	ER	Ticknall Pots & Potters, research in the round' Research on a Derbyshire Pottery industry. Janet Spavold & Sue Brown.
Wed 21st	19.30	SDHS (SHS))	NR	The Ancient Kingdom of Northumbria. Sheena Gemmell.
Thu 22nd	19.30	SCHS	NR	Storeys of Stone. Ian Andrew.
Sat 24th	10.00-16.15	YVBSG/YAS	WR	Annual Day School, How Yorkshire became polite. Leeds Met. University, Headingley. Followed by AGM.
Sat 24th	11.00	IHS	CL	Early Preservation work at Caphouse Colliery & the St Aidan’s walking Dragline. Ivor Brown.
Sat 24th	19.00	SDHS (SHS)	NR	AGM, followed by Jacob’s Join.
Mon 26th	19.30	UWFS	NR	Raistrick Memorial Lecture: Common problems: A history of common land in Northern England. Angus Winchester.
Mon 26th	20.00	ELHAS	WR	Leeds – The story of a Great City. John Gilleghan.
Tue 27th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	The view from some Dales Gardens & their history. (see above).
Thu 29th	19.30	FoG	NR	Flood alleviation; a community perspective. Mike Potter.
April 2012
Mon 2nd	19.30	SAHS	ER	AGM followed by Scarborough’s forgotten seaside attractions. Trevor Pearson.
Tue 3rd	All day	MDLHG	NR	The view from some Dales Gardens & their history. (see above)
Tue 3rd	18.45	TS	WR	AGM followed by Charles Wilson, the big city boss. Michael Meadowcroft.
Tue 3rd	19.30	YPS	NR	Taming the Banks, is the new regulatory framework fit for purpose? . Hugo Radice.
Fri 6th	19.45	HDAS	WR	Founders Lecture - Archaeology Today & Yesterday. Andrew Selkirk.
Tue 10th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	All Human Life ~ the North Riding Quarter Session Records, Ellen Tout, County Record Office
Wed 11th	19.00	RHS	NR	tba
Wed 11th	19.30	WHS	WR	The British Kingdom of Elmet: recent archaeological evidence from West Yorkshire. Ian Roberts.
Thu 12th	19.30	SCHS	NR	Aspects of history in & around Bradford. Alan Hall.
Sat 14th	10.30	IHS	Cl	AGM & Members Session.
Sat 14th	14.00	FHS	Cl	Wanted, widows with large families, the Poor Law Commissioners' Migration Scheme 1835-7. Peter Park FSG
Mon 16th	19.30	IAG	NR	tba
Mon 16th	19.30	SAHS	ER	tba
Tue 17th	14.00	MDLHG	NR	John Rettie Memorial Lecture – Medieval houses in the North of England. Jane Grenville.
Tue 17th	19.30	YPS	NR	tba
Wed 18th	19.30	ERAS	ER	A.G.M. followed by Ticknall Pots & Potters, research in the round' Research on a Derbyshire Pottery industry. Stephen Rowland.
Thu 19th	19.30	OHS	WR	A.G.M. & Worstedopolis: Victorian Bradford. Paul Jennings.
Thu 19th	19.30	SHS	WR	A Collector’s life – Francis Buckley of Tunstead. Sean Baggaley.
Fri 20th	19.15	PDAS	WR	Five Years of Hungate: York’s largest ever excavation. Peter Connelly.
Sat 21st	All day	NYDNP/YAS	NR	Grassington Day School. Archaeology & the Historic Environment in the Yorkshire Dales.
Wed 25th	14.15	WLPS	NR	tba
Thu 26th	19.30	SCHS	NR	AGM followed by A life in History. Douglas Grant.
Fri 27th	19.15	PDAS	WR	AGM
Sat 28th	All day	PLACE	NR	Yorkshire Forests in the Twenty-first Century. To be held in Dalby Forest.
Mon 30th	20.00	ELHAS	WR	2 Cold Wednesdays – Restoring the last Leeds Horse Tram. Jamie Guest. followed by a Pie & Pea Supper.
May 2012
Tue 1st	19.30	YPS	NR	Fifty Years of Lasers: Lasers for consumer products, communications, sensing and time-keeping. Jeremy Everard
Tue 8th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	President’s Evening: ‘Foul and Malignant Conspiracy’, Professor Malcolm Chase of Leeds University
Wed 9th	19.00	RHS	NR	tba
Wed 9th	19.30	SHS	WR	The Oldham Lyceum – a vehicle for the moral, cultural, & intellectual well being on the citizens of Oldham. Michael Russell.
Sat 12th	All Day	PLACE	NR	AGM followed by a visit to Thorp Perrow Arboretum.
Sat 12th	tba	IHS	tba	Discovering Industrial Sheffield: an industrial history walk. Derek Bayliss & Graham Hague.
Sat 12th	11.00	FHS	Cl	AGM followed by Leeds – Black City. Stephen Mosley.
Tue 15th	19.30	RAS/YPS	NR	Looking down on Roman Yorkshire: An aerial archaeologist’s view’. Dave MacLeod.
Fri 18th – Sun 20th	All Day	YVBSG	NR	Recording weekend in collaboration with Great Broughton & Kirby-in-Cleveland LHS.
Sat 19th	14.00	RAS	Cl	Locks, keys & the criminous - security in Roman Britain. Lindsay Allason Jones.
Tue 22nd	14.00	MDLHG	NR	Feature of the season – documenting & understanding the history of Dales life through everyday features in the landscape. Miles Johnson.
Tue 22nd	19.30	YPS	NR	Peat bogs, climate change and prehistoric pyromania. Jeff Blackford
Wed 23rd	14.15	WLPS	NR	tba
Tue 29th	19.30	YPS	NR	Tulipomania: Banking with Bulbs during the Golden Age of Dutch Culture. Eric T Haskell
June 2012
Fri 1st	19.45	HDAS	WR	tba
Sat 9th	14.00	FHS	Cl	Historic Maps, people & places. Stephen Moorhouse.
Tue 12th	19.00	NDLHS	NR	Corn Milling in North Yorkshire, Peter Morgan & John Harrison
Wed 13th	19.00	RHS	NR	tba
Wed 13th	19.30	SHS	WR	The Beefeaters at the Tower of London since 1820. Paul Ward.
Mon 25th	20.00	ELHAS	WR	AGM followed by Gilt Edged in vestments. Ann Hemsworth.
Wed 27th	14.15	WLPS	NR	tba
Sat 30th	14.00	YAS	Cl	AGM, followed by Annual Lecture given this year by Anthony Pollard, topic to be confirmed later.
July 2012
Fri 6th	19.45	HDAS	WR	tba
Sat 7th	All Day	NYCRO	NR	Family History Beginners Day.

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.