Meeting Programme October 2022 – April 2023 Meetings are held at Swarthmore Education Centre, 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds LS3 1AD, on Saturday’s at 11:00 am unless otherwise indicated and visitors are always welcome. All…
Lunchtime Talks: ‘Astounding Inventions’ lunchtime talks. Inventing the Future Stories behind significant and strange inventions through history, from Dolly the sheep to the humble ring pull, and the part Leeds Libraries have played in the…
The group have sent a progress report on their activities. Their first AGM has been held, and they mounted a display when Barbara Phipps gave a talk about Waterton in May. A local textile artist,…
YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SUMMER LECTURE SERIES AUGUST 2022 The Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society (YAHS) have arranged a short series of summer lectures to be held online via Zoom during August as part…
If your are interested in Canal and Navigation history the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society are commemorating the final closure of the Bradford canal in1922.They will be opening their heritage boat Kennet to the public…
The ‘Sponsor a Box’ is now up and running, to help the John Goodchild Collection housed at the West Yorkshire History Centre be catalogued and preserved for the future. Information from the West Yorkshire Archives:…
Information from Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society: ‘TRANSCRIPTS AND OBSERVATIONS TOUCHING THE MANOR OF WAKEFIELD’ For more than six centuries from before the Norman Conquest the huge Yorkshire manor of Wakefield was owned either by the…
The West Yorkshire Archive Service offices are almost all fully open and returning to normal hours now. At West Yorkshire History Centre, we finally have the doors open and have launched our new year-long exhibition…
A short video about the Viking carvings on a stone at Skipwith Church – they raise the question as to the reason they were carved, and who they were carved by. https://vimeo.com/662603824
In 2019 members of our Society visited Calverley Hall, and saw the extensive restoration work that was being conducted by the Landmark Trust. On 24th March, 6pm there is a talk by Caroline Stanford on…