Histories of People and Landscape Essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey Editor: Richard W. Hoyle Price: £35 (hardback due Mar ’21) £18.99 (paperback due Sep ’21) About the book David Hey (1938–2016) was…
Last year there was publicity in the newspapers and on BBC television about Eamonn O”Keeffe’s research into Lupset farmer Matthew Tomlinson’s attitude to homosexuality, expressed on 14th January 1810 in the first extant volume of…
Wakefield Socialist History Group, based at the Red Shed, are seeking submissions for a ‘zine’ to be published to coincide with May Day: If you’re interested in producing text for this zine, please can you…
Online talk from CBA Yorkshire . Tuesday 23rd February 7.30 pm, ‘An Aerial View of Archaeology’, by Matthew Oakey, Historic England. Applications of aerial survey, new technologies and some new advice on accessing/using APs and…
Richard Knowles introduced us to a little known historian, Thomas Gent (1693-1778), at our online meeting on the 10th February. Born in Dublin and apprenticed to a printer in 1707, he moved to London in…
Gary Brannan, a member of our Society, and recently an archivist at West Yorkshire History Centre, delivers a talk about the importance of archives on YouTube. He is now the Keeper of Archives and Special…