Online talk from Leeds Central Library 29th January, 1-2 pm Victorian Leeds was at the cutting-edge of machine-making. But how had this high-tech trade come into being, and why in Leeds? Dr Gill Cookson locates…
If you care about saving our historic churches, and enjoy a carol concert you might wish to join this one in aid of the National Churches Trust. Bill Bryson, Huw Edwards and Michael Palin are…
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…
Good news that Wakefield Council has agreed the sale of key properties in the Civic Quarter in Wakefield to Rushbond, for the conversion of the old Crown Court building and the old Police Station alongside…
2020 CBA Festival of Archaeology This year the Festival of Archaeology is going online for the first time! Registration is now open for digital activity taking place during the first part of the Festival from…
A selection of photographs from the Twixt Aire and Calder photographic archive have been made into slideshows, with audio descriptions. Find them here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/WakefieldLibraries/2558977371034801/
You may not, this summer, be able to visit the Gissing Centre in Wakefield, (the childhood home of renowned Victorian novelist George Gissing) but you may have time to enjoy a ‘Readalong” of his novel “The…