Nearly September and, as always, Heritage Open Days in our area are offering a wide selection of events, with many venues opening especially. Walks are available around Stanley Royd Hospital, Wakefield Parks, the bridges at…
Project at Thornes Bowling Club Keith Hawes and members of Thornes Bowling Club are researching the history of crown green bowling clubs in the Wakefield area. Their own club has received a grant from Wakefield…
Information from Yorks Festival of Ideas: If you didn’t get a chance to join any of York Festival of Ideas‘ online history events this year, or were unable to attend as they took place in-person in York,…
Do you enjoy looking round churches? The National Churches Trust is running a series of online talks: ‘Knowledge Drop: Decoding Sacred Symbols with Richard Taylor’. More information from the Trust: Exploring churches is always a…
Writers Like George Gissing Paint Pictures with Words Much of his novel, ‘A Life’s Morning’, is set in Dunfield, a town which bears a remarkable similarity to his childhood home of Wakefield, and he describes…
Information from the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society: We have arranged another series of online Summer Lectures facilitated by Zoom. There are four sessions this year: Thursday 14th August 7.30 pm: Blenkinsop & Murray and the…
Heritage Open Days 12th – 21st September Although the Heritage Open Days are well over a month away, it is worth seeing what is available so far, and book the visits that particularly interest you.…
Thursday 7th – Monday 11th August, York Georgian Festival A wonderful opportunity to ‘return’ to the Georgian period in York. There are visits to the many Georgian buildings in York, such as the Mansion House…
Information from SAVE: Sheffield’s historic buildings—once symbols of its global industrial power—are facing a new kind of threat: vacancy, neglect, and demolition. But a new wave of local action is gathering pace. To celebrate the…
In the last ten years our Society has received a number of enquiries about the Lofthouse Park Internment Camp and we have referred the enquirers to Professor Claudia Sternberg at the University of Leeds who…