The very first Minute of the Society records the founding on the 19th December 1924, at a meeting in the Town Hall. Hear all about it, same venue this 14th December.. https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/whs-events/lecture-programme/
From the February 1974 Minute book a record of our concerns for the Elizabethan Grammar School building. Is it once more under threat 50 years on!
100 Years of Wakefield Historical Society The early years. Here from 1929/30 are the names of those influential in the Society’s activities during those years between the wars. Anyone we know?
100 Years of Wakefield Historical Society. In 1982 we drifted out to sea to consider our local maritime history in a series of lectures by John Goodchild to mark National Maritime Year.
100 Years of Wakefield Historical Society. An entertaining and erudite collection of lectures for the pre-war 1937-38 season, with of course the feature of the Annual Dinner with principal guest.