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		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.