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DIARY OF EVENTS 2025 - 2026

(updated 26th October 2025)

Saturday Lectures

 

These lectures will take place on Saturday mornings  start at 11:00 a.m. unless otherwise indicated.

Members will be informed if meeting dates have to be moved owing to unforeseen circumstances.

Live meetings will be held at St Georges Conference Centre, 60 Great George Street, Leeds, LS1 3DL

Find the Centre at   https://stgeorgescentreleeds.org.uk/find-us

Hybrid lectures will take place as per live meetings  and online using the Zoom meeting facility. 

Visitors and Guests are welcome to participate in our live meetings provided places are available.

2025

November 8th    Guy Fawkes, The Gunpowder Plot and Yorkshire Connections

                          Tony Morgan - Local Historian

December 13th    Victorian Circus in Leeds 

                            Dr Steve Ward - Historian and Author

2026

January 10th     Yorkshire Trams -  A Forgotten Era         

                          Bill Jagger - YAHS Industrial History Section   

February 14th   A Ramble Round the Register Office

                         Barbara Dixon - Retired Superintendent Registrar

March 14th      The Apothecary         

                          Prem MistryRetired Pharmacist

                         & Volunteer Thackray Medical Museum  

April 11th          The History of Harrogate Spa  

                              Paul Jennings - Author 

May 9th            400 Years of Leeds History from the Collections of  Leeds Museums

                          Patrick Bourne - Assistant Community Curator - Leeds Museums & Galleries

June 13th          Title To Be Advised

 

Family History Fairs and Events in other places

For a full list go to http://geneva.weald.org.uk

 

‘Bog Bodies: face-to-face with the past.’ Dr Melanie Giles.

Event Date:
Event Time:
  • Event Start Date: 25/09/2021 14:00 - 15:30
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Prehistory Research Section & The Prehistoric Society
25th September 2021, 2 pm
Previously planned to take place at Leeds Museum, now to be delivered via Zoom. Contact info.prehist@yahs.org.uk for information on joining.
‘Bog Bodies: face-to-face with the past’
Talk by Dr Melanie Giles, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Manchester

Dr Melanie Giles encourages us to revisit the iconic phenomenon of bog bodies, through the story of Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’ from Astley Moss, Worsley. By thinking differently about these landscapes, the many different kinds of artefacts also found in bogs, and the meaning of violence in later prehistoric and early Roman worlds. She will encourage us to tell more subtle stories around these discoveries, which addresses both their lives and deaths. She will end with some of the more creative ways in which museums have been responding to concerns about if and how we display human remains, encouraging us to see our archaeological work as a kind of ‘care’ for the ancient dead.

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