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 lunch is not included (bookings for the optional lunch at the venue that was originally available have now closed, but there are plenty of places near the Meeting House where lunch can be obtained).

Please note that we understand there are works affecting some rail travel to York station on 1st November.  Travel to York by train (or replacement bus service) will still be possible, but for more information please go to https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/engineering-works/leeds-doncaster-and-darlington-20251101/.

 

Bookings are now closed.

 

 For any queries please email office@yahs.org.uk