Online talk on “John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation”, 14 April 2021 by Lesley Taylor and Shirley Levon Lesley Taylor explained that the research that she and Shirley Levon had conducted was initiated during the…
Talk on John Brearley: an eighteenth-century textiles worker’s view of Wakefield by David Scriven. 14th October 2020 Members were able to enjoy the talk on Zoom that had to be cancelled in April. John Brearley’s…
It is great news that this historic document has been acquired by YAHS – a precious and unique record of the fulling and wool trade in Wakefield in the 18th century. The Yorkshire Archaeological and…