Discover how Jane Austen celebrated Christmas via a Zoom talk on Wednesday 9th December. Julia Hickey of ‘The History Jar’ will be entertaining and enlightening us. Contact us to join: info@WakefieldHistoricalSociety.org.uk Julia is a freelance…
Today, the 22nd November, is the birthday of George Gissing, the notable Victorian novelist, who was born in 1857, and lived in Thompson’s Yard in Wakefield. His novel “A Life’s Morning” transforms Wakefield into fiction…
‘Mine Lighting and the Flame Safety Lamp’ Talk by Mark Carlyle, Curator at the National Mining Museum Zoom talk on 18th November Mark Carlyle described clearly the vital importance of the development of what is…
In these Covid times we are all missing the company of our friends and colleagues, and the chance to catch up and chat about our hobbies and our interests. Sadly, it appears we wont be…
University of York online event. 24 November 2020 7-8.15pm To book: Wolfson History Prize Wolfson History Prize 2020 winner David Abulafia and three of the shortlisted authors, Marion Turner, Toby Green and Prashant Kidambi, will…
Talk by Mark Carlyle, Curator at the National Mining Museum, on Zoom, 7.30pm Wednesday 11 November In 1815 scientist Sir Humphrey Davy was called on to help save the lives of coal miners who were…
Dr Steve Ward has published a new article about black performers of the nineteenth century Circus. This includes information about Pablo Fanque who we know performed in Wakefield on more than one occasion. It would…
Online Talk by the University of York: ‘Hidden in plain sight: The unexplored histories of the medieval north at the time of the Black Death’ by Professor Sarah Rees Jones. This talk will expose and…
The 2021 census on Sunday 21st March. Researchers in our Society rely on the information in the 19th and early 20th century censuses for their research, so with historians of the future in mind, the…
Talk on John Brearley: an eighteenth-century textiles worker’s view of Wakefield by David Scriven. 14th October 2020 Members were able to enjoy the talk on Zoom that had to be cancelled in April. John Brearley’s…