Yorkshire History Conference – new light on Yorkshire’s past
Saturday 1st November 2025 from 9.30am at Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York
Programme
9.30 Registration: coffee and tea available to delegates
10.00 Dr David Buck, President of the Society - Welcome and introduction
10.15 Dr John Jenkins University of York - 1226-2026: New Light on The Cult of St William of York 800 Years after hisCanonization
11.00 Dr Joan Heggie Independent Researcher and Visiting Research Fellow Kings College, London. Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Halifax and Hull: Using the Registers of Deeds to evidence women’s capital investment in nineteenth-century Yorkshire
11.45 Dr Paul Jennings Social Historian - Domestic Service in Edwardian Harrogate
12.30 Break for lunch
13.30 Prof Fiona Edmonds, Lancaster University - Brittany and Richmond: connections and comparisons, c. 1066-1399
14.15 Prof Simon Morgan, Leeds Beckett University - A Manchester Man Abroad: Richard Cobden and the West Riding of Yorkshire
15.00 Tea
15.30 Dr David Pendleton, Author and Historian - After the Bombardment, the forgotten Battle of Scarborough 1914-15
16.15 Thanks and concluding comments
16.30 Conference ends
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.
For details of alternative payment methods, and for any other queries please email office@yahs.org.uk