Wakefield Historical Society members, are you willing to help? Before Covid we used to share excursions with Wakefield Civic Society. They were a mixture of full day coach excursions monthly from May to September, and…
Information about a series of free public lectures hosted by the School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford.can be found on the link below. The next lecture will be on the…
WYAS Kirklees Closure The West Yorkshire Archive Service Kirklees office will be closing to the public on 1 July 2022 to carry out essential work to prepare the irreplaceable archive collections to move into a…
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…
An Introduction to the Modern Military Archaeology of the North York Moors, This meeting will be an online talk by Roger Thomas at 11am on Saturday 5 February to the Industrial History Section of the…
If you missed the talk given earlier this year to our Society by Lesley Taylor and Shirley Levon on ‘John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation, 1760-1763’, members are invited to attend the Railway and Canal…
York Festival of Ideas 2021 has many online history events to watch and engage with; these include the events below. A full list of history events can be viewed at https://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2021/themes/history/. York’s City Walls in…
An interesting video by Mark Saville covering the markets and fairs of Yorkshire from early medieval times. He points out the recent sad loss of Wakefield’s historic market. The channel ‘Around and About Yorkshire’ has…
Gary Brannan, a member of our Society, and recently an archivist at West Yorkshire History Centre, delivers a talk about the importance of archives on YouTube. He is now the Keeper of Archives and Special…
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…