Lupset Hall Wakefield Civic Society has alerted us to a planning application to turn Lupset Hall into residential apartments: https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=QNLOLTQQLH000 Amongst the 41 documents is a Heritage Impact Assessment which provides a history of the…
In September 2019 our excursion programme included a visit to Calverley Old Hall near Leeds which is a Grade I listed medieval manor house with fabric dating from the 13th to 17th centuries. While part…
WHS is an affiliate member of YAHS, so our members may be able to join meetings, numbers permitting. This coming weekend, on Saturday 20th March at 2.00 pm, there will be a topical talk for…
Meeting on 10th March, AGM and two short talks on the diaries of a Wakefield draper, and progress on the John Goodchild Collection. Our President Pam Judkins chaired the AGM. The officers of the Society…
An interesting video by Mark Saville covering the markets and fairs of Yorkshire from early medieval times. He points out the recent sad loss of Wakefield’s historic market. The channel ‘Around and About Yorkshire’ has…
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…