Talk: Playmakers – Horbury’s sports specialists Wednesday 10 July 2.30pm – 3.30pm Wakefield Museum Learning Zone Free – booking required. For 100 years, Horbury was a centre of high tech, high quality sports manufacturing. This…
100 Years of Wakefield Historical Society. In 1979 WHP with The Holland Press published this truly splendid volume co-authored by Heather Lawrence, who became President of the Society.
Talk ‘180 Years of Eastmoor: its people and their houses’ Wakefield Historical Society member, Dr Joanne Harrison gave a talk on Monday 24 June about the project to the Local and Family History Group which…
100 Years of Wakefield Historical Society. Recall visiting Clarke Hall? In 1957 the Society published an illustrated history of the Hall written by its then owner H.C. Haldane, a former President of our Society. @WakefieldCivicS…
Summary of the event commemorating the Tricentenary of John Smeaton at St Mary’s Whitkirk. John Smeaton was the engineer for the Upper Calder Navigation from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge 1760-1763. On 8th June 1724 John…
100 Years of Wakefield Historical Society. Wakefield’s other castle, Lowe Hill. In 1953 the Society was involved in a “dig” there with Brian Hope-Taylor and published a Report on the findings in the same year.…
The International Medieval Congress 2024 The 31st International Medieval Congress will take place from Monday 01 July to Thursday 04 July 2024 at the University of Leeds, with both an in-person and virtual component. The…
Wakefield and the D-Day Landing Craft With the 80th anniversary of D-Day on the 6th June being much in the news this week, did you know that Wakefield played a crucial part in preparing for…
100 Years of Wakefield Historical Society. In our fiftieth year, 1974, The Dalesman published a brief account of the Society, written by our member Ernest Wright. Still of interest.
SEEING DOUBLE: THE STORY OF DOUBLE TWO SHIRTS Exhibition at Wakefield Museum, Wakefield One. May 2024-May2025 Explore the enduring legacy of a local business that changed the face of fashion in Seeing Double: The Story…