Saturday 18th May 10am – 4pm. Free drop-in event. West Yorkshire History Centre, Kirkgate Wakefield A new exhibition is opening on 18th May: A window on the West Riding – The John Goodchild Collection. Drop-in…
Friends of Waterton’s Wall are holding a free drop-in event at Walton Hall on 11th May for people to record their memories. Find out more: Swapping Stories A4 Poster FINAL
South Leeds Archaeology at Temple Newsam. Are you visiting Temple Newsam on Thursday 25th April, Saturday 27th April, or Sunday 28th April? South Leeds Archaeology are conducting a Resistivity Survey on those days. Anyone who…
Monday 22nd April: ‘Science at War – Vorsprung Durch Technik?’ by Phil Judkins Kelham Island Museum Alma Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 6.30pm Please note this is a change of talk to that was originally advertised…
Unfortunately, this event haas been cancelled Visitors are welcome at this Gissing Centre event.
Wakefield Word and Black Horse Poets celebrate #WMC100 Wakefield Museum, 23rd February 2024 5.30-6.30pm Wakefield Museums & Castles turned 100 in 2023! As part of our centenary celebrations, we picked 100 fascinating objects to represent our…
LGBTQI History Month: Sexuality and Socialism. 1-4pm, Saturday 24th February: Labour Club (The Red Shed) WF1 1QX Speakers: Professor Paul Salveson How in England in 1880s and 1890s a gay writer explored Socialism and how Socialists, particularly…
On 28th January 2024 at 2pm Charlie Knight, Wolfson Postgraduate Scholar, from the Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton will be giving a talk about Ernst and Gertrud Neustadt, a German couple who came…
“Their Finest Hour” Project, is a nationwide digital history project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and run by the University of Oxford. Their aim is to digitally preserve the stories and physical heritage…
On 22nd November two tours of the Westgate Heritage Action Zone are available at 10am and 2pm. You can learn about the research that members of Wakefield Historical Society conducted on the history of the…