Programme of Events for 2009-2010


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.