Yorkshire History Conference - New light on Yorkshire's past

 

Saturday 1 November 2025, 9.30-16.30, at Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York

The day will cover research on a wide range of periods, people and places across the county – from Richmond to Hull and from the Norman Conquest to the First World War.

        

Programme - join us to hear about the following topics. 

  • 1226-2026: New Light On The Cult Of St William Of York 800 Years AfterHis Canonization - Dr John Jenkins
  • Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Halifax and Hull: Using the Registers of Deeds to evidence women’s capital investment in nineteenth-century Yorkshire - Dr Joan Heggie
  • Domestic Service in Edwardian Harrogate - Dr Paul Jennings
  • Brittany and Richmond: connections and comparisons, c. 1066-1399 - Prof Fiona Edmonds
  • A Manchester Man Abroad: Richard Cobden and the West Riding of Yorkshire - Prof Simon Morgan
  • After the Bombardment, the forgotten Battle of Scarborough 1914-15 - Dr David Pendleton
     

    

                                         Photo: Oliver Wilkinson                                                                                      Photo: Scarborough Museums

 
Full programme can be downloaded by clicking here.

The conference fee is £20, with some places reduced to £10 for full time students. To keep costs down we are not automatically including lunch, but it can be booked as an optional extra at £13.

Click here to book your ticket

 

 For details of alternative payment methods, and for any other queries please email office@yahs.org.uk