YAHS) Or by Societies and Groups Affiliated with the YAHS for 2017-2018

Diary of lectures and other events arranged by the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society (YAHS) or by Societies and Groups affiliated with the YAHS for 2017-2018

In the following tables all YAHS lectures and other YAHS events are listed in bold type. Lectures, etc, arranged by other groups affiliated with the YAHS are set out in standard type. YAHS lectures are organised by the Society's sections. These are abbreviated as follows: FHS - Family History Section IHS - Industrial History Section MS - Medieval Section PreRS - Prehistory Research Section RAS - Roman Antiquities Section

Details of the abbreviations used for affiliated groups and who to contact for further information about each such groups are included at the end of the listing.

Members of each YAHS section are entitled to attend that section's lectures, etc, free of charge. Members of other YAHS sections, or of the overall YAHS only, or of YAHS affiliates, are welcome to attend lectures, etc, arranged by YAHS sections to which they do not belong, although a small donation might be sought (£1-£2) for such occasional attendance.

Please note that at the time of the preparation of this booklet almost all the YAHS lectures are expected to be held at the Swarthmore Education Centre (and any known exception is noted in the listing). Some small changes may be possible after January 2018, so please check the Society's website in case of any alterations after that date. The Swarthmore Education Centre is located at 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds, LS3 1AD.

Under venue, the following abbreviations are used to give an indication as to where in Yorkshire events are due to take place: Sw = Swarthmore, Leeds, ER = East Riding of Yorkshire, NY = North Yorkshire, SY = South Yorkshire, WY = West Yorkshire and Yk = York.

Date Time Section Venue Event or Affiliate

September 2017

Tues 5 14.00 MDLHG NY Miles Johnson, The Conservation of the Physical Archaeological Environment (Note: 'Aspects of Archaeology' - three linked sessions; see also 19 and 26 Sept; fee applicable) Thu 7 11.00 UWHG WY Bob Holt, Medieval Leeds (a walk exploring the streets of Medieval Leeds) Sat 9 11.00 FHS Sw Simon Bulmer, History of Rothwell

Sun 10 tba YVBSG NY Northallerton walkabout (see YVBSG website for details) Tues 12 12.00 YAHS Sw Jane Ellis, Towton Battlefield Walk (ca 3 hour walk; meet first for lunch at The Rockingham Arms, Towton; contact [email protected] for details) Wed 13 19.30 WHS WY Gary Brannan, The plight of human fortune and the pitilessness of death: The Black Death and the church in Yorkshire, 1349 Fri 15 19.30 HAHS NY Martin Vander Weyer, The 2nd Earl of Faversham at the Battle of the Somme Sat 16 11.00 IAG NY Stewart Ainsworth, Walk to Whitley Castle Roman Fort (jointly with Altogether Archaeology; see IAG website for details) Sat 16 14.00 RAS Sw Dr Stephen Greep and Dr Sonia O'Connor, Ivories : The real thing? The Roman Ivories from York and Brigantia Mon 18 19.15 TS WY Rachel Reeves MP, The political life of Alice Bacon: one of the twentieth century's most remarkable female politicians defying all odds to be elected the first woman MP for Leeds in 1945 Tues 19 14.00 MDLHG NY Professor Charlotte Roberts, Osteoarchaeology (Note: 'Aspects of Archaeology' - three linked sessions; see also 5 and 26 Sept; fee applicable) Tues 19 19.30 YPS Yk Professor Graham Law, Sleep - the science and the myths Wed 20 19.30 ERAS ER Reports round up by John Tibbles (ERA), Ed Dennison (EDAS), Paula Ware (MAP) and Ken Steedman (HFA) Thu 21 19.30 OHS WY Professor Christopher Dyer, Connecting country and town in Medieval Yorkshire (The May Foster Pickles lecture) Fri 22 19.00 PDAS WY Pontefract Archaeology Society 1957-2017 - 60th Anniversary Celebration with presentation by Philip Moore, Recent excavations in Pontefract (at Copley's Farm, Pontefract; all interested parties welcome; with buffet [£15]) Tues 26 14.00 MDLHG NY Yvonne Luke, The Mesolithic in the Dales (Note: 'Aspects of Archaeology' - three linked sessions; see also 5 and 19 September; fee applicable) Wed 27 14.15 WLPS NY Ian Stubbs, Linthorpe pottery Sat 30 14.00 PreRS WY David Gibson, The Must Farm pile dwelling - Taste, appearance, lifestyle and communication in the late Bronze Age (joint YAHS-PreRS and Prehistoric Society lecture; NB at Leeds City Museum)

October 2017

Mon 2 19.30 SAHS NY George Sheeran, The Antiquities of Yorkshire: viewing and displaying the past in the eighteenth century Tues 3 19.30 HUN SY To be advised Tues 3 19.30 YPS Yk Professor John Goodby and Dr Stephen Cowling, From flat- screen TVs to augmented reality devices - How Yorkshire helped build the high-tech world of today Thu 5 19.30 UWHG NY Jennifer Stearn, Excavations at Holme Cultram Abbey Fri 6 19.45 HDAS WY Dr Kevin Kuykendal, Where are all the Neanderthals? A field survey of cave sites in the Creswell Limestone Heritage Area

Wed 11 19.30 WHS WY Professor Christine Hallett, Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the wounded of the Ypres campaigns, 1914-1918 Thu 12 19.30 SCHS NY Susan Broadhead, Reading the windows (with reference to Holy Trinity Church, Skipton) Sat 14 11.00 FHS Sw Derek Martin, Footmen, pedestrians and harriers Sat 14 14.00 MS Sw Dr Richard Dance, Tykes and Vikings: Looking for the Old Norse influence on Northern English vocabulary (Joint lecture with the Yorkshire Dialect Society) Mon 16 19.15 TS WY Dr Clive Barrett, The conscientious would not go - the music of war resistance, 1914-1918 Mon 16 19.30 IAG NY Andrew Lowe, Inside a Lakeland farmhouse (preceded by Annual General Meeting) Mon 16 19.30 SAHS NY Gill Blanchard, 'Lawson lies still in the Thames' - The extraordinary life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson Tues 17 19.30 HUN SY Dawn Hadley, Inside the Great Army's winter camp Tues 17 19.30 YPS Yk Philippa Britton, Amir Parekh and Michael de Botte, One day, three perspectives - a day in the life of a rail engineer (preceded by Nuffield STEM Awards presentation) Wed 18 19.30 ERAS ER Dr Philip Murgatroyd, What's Doggerland ever done for us? Examining the culture of a submerged landscape Wed 18 19.30 YAYAS Yk Dr Louise Wheatley, 'Clifford's Tower ... as it stood fortified ... before it was blown up' by Francis Place, ca 1684 Thu 19 19.30 OHS WY David Joy, Men of lead Fri 20 19.15 PDAS WY Tony Willmott, The Booths dig - 30 years on Fri 20 19.30 HAHS NY Dr Kates Giles and Dr Melanie Giles, The writing on the wall - the concealed communities of the East Yorkshire horselads Sat 21 All YVBSG WY Recording Conference Review Day, Headingly Campus, Leeds day Beckett University (for details see YVBSG website) Tues 24 14.00 MDLHG NY Eric Houlder, Stage coaching days Wed 25 14.15 WLPS NY Dr Nick Rosser, Coastal erosion Thu 26 19.30 SCHS NY Ron Crossley, A history of Skipton water supply Sat 28 11.00 IHS Sw Mike Clarke, The Leeds and Liverpool Canal - its origins and history Mon 30 19.30 SAHS NY John Toy, The 1984 fire at York Minster and the restoration of the roof Tues 31 19.30 YPS Yk Professor Bette Chambers, Evidence-based education

November 2017

Thu 2 19.30 FoG NY Barry Crump, Rethinking coinage in Roman Britain Thu 2 19.30 UWHG NY Dr David Johnson, The Long Preston Big Dig - community archaeology in action

Fri 3 19.45 HDAS WY Dr Janet Montgomery, ‘Isotope Magic’ - How does isotope analysis identify human migrants in the past?

Sat 4 14.30 HAS NY John Mitton and Anne Buckley, Raikeswood Camp [WW1 German POW] Camp, Skipton Tues 7 19.30 HUN SY Tony Wilmott, From the Mesolithic to the present - The Roman amphitheatre site at Chester Wed 8 19.30 WHS WY David Scriven, The people of the Manor of Wakefield, 1781-82 Thu 9 19.30 SCHS NY Dr Kenneth Jackson, The story of Firth Mill, Skipton: Mark Nutter to Candelisa Sat 11 11.00 FHS Sw Jaki and Bob Lawrence, Victoria Cross holders of Leeds Sat 11 14.00 MS Sw Dr Iona McCleery, 'Holy but not healthy' - Fish-eating in the Middle Ages Mon 13 19.30 SAHS NY Mike Haken, The Roman Roads Research Association Tues 14 19.30 YPS Yk Professor David Bates, William the Conqueror and the harrying of the North 1069-70 - contexts and perspectives (Joint lecture with Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York) Wed 15 19.30 ERAS ER Megan Clement and Andy Sherman, CITiZAN project update and results Wed 15 19.30 YAYAS Yk David Poole, York Cemetery - The complete records of burials from 1837; a valuable information resource Thu 16 19.30 OHS WY Dr Edward Impey, The Royal Armouries in Leeds - Past, present and future (An Ilkley Arts Festival Event and joint meeting with the Friends of the Manor House) Fri 17 19.15 PDAS WY Matthew Webster, Trench art from Napoleon to the present Fri 17 19.30 HAHS NY Ian Milsted, Excavations at York Minster, 1829-2012 Fri 17 - 18.00 RAI Yk Royal Archaeological Institute Annual Conference, Arras 200 - Sun 19 Celebrating the Iron Age (conference supported by PreRS and RAS of YAHS; NB: at Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, York) Sat 18 11.00 IHS Sw John Meredith, Tramways in the British Isles since the end of World War 2 Mon 20 19.15 TS WY Dr Di Drummond, Leeds locomotive builders to the world Mon 20 19.30 IAG NY Alex Gibson, Wharfedale Henges Tues 21 14.00 MDLHG NY Barbara Dixon, Death comes to Eelmire Tues 21 19.30 HUN SY Martin Huggon, God's poor men and women - Charity, poverty and medicine in the Medieval hospitals of England Wed 22 14.15 WLPS NY Patrick Wildgust, Shandy Hall and Tristram Shandy Thu 23 19.30 SCHS NY Ella Hatfield, Growing Up in Old Skipton: The memoirs of Joyce Murgatroyd Sat 25 14.00 RAS Sw Steve Roskams, The Vicus at Malton: recent investigations northeast of the Roman fort Mon 27 19.30 SAHS NY Steve Bassett, The Anglo-Saxon origins of the churches and parishes of the Scarborough area Tues 28 19.30 YPS Yk Professor Nicky Milner, Recent excavations at the Mesolithic site of Star Carr (Preceded by presentation of Charles Wellbeloved and Herman Ramm Awards)

Wed 29 19.30 FoG NY Dr Francis Toase, The 100th anniversary of the capture of Jerusalem

December 2017

Fri 1 19.45 HDAS WY Dr Patrick Ottaway, Roman York: new light on an ancient city Sat 2 11.00 PreRS Sw John Cruse and others, Yorkshire Quern Survey Annual General meeting and talk Sat 2 14.00 PreRS Sw Dr Alison Sheridan, Tales of the black stuff - the use of jet and jet-like materials in neolithic and Bronze Age Britain; Andy Tinsley, Recent prehistoric discoveries from Newark, Nottinghamshire Sat 2 14.30 HAS NY Short talks by Local Groups Thu 7 19.30 UWHG NY Jane Lunnon, Under the Crag - investigating the history of Kilnsey Fri 8 19.15 PDAS WY Members’ evening with Christmas supper (members only) Sat 9 11.00 FHS Sw Eddie and Charissa Lawler, Tracking the Brontës Sat 9 14.00 MS Sw Dr Bart Lambert, The Later Middle Ages - A missing chapter in the history of migration to England Mon 11 19.30 SAHS NY Keith Johnston, Scarborough invaded – brewery trips to the town Tues 12 19.30 HUN SY Nigel Mills, Roman cavalry - Frontiers of the Roman Empire (plus festive refreshments) Tues 12 19.30 YPS Yk Dr Roger Piner, Does wine prevent dementia? Wed 13 19.30 WHS WY Joe Williams (Heritage Corner) and Deborah Sanderson (Urban Angels), Oh Susannah! A performance about a black Victorian circus proprietor, Pablo Fanque, and his wife, Susannah, who set up Circus Royal in Wood Street in 1841 (Note: venue will be The Elizabethan Gallery) Thu 14 19.30 SCHS NY Tim Bastow, The First Voyage of Thomas Alfred Edge Sat 16 11.00 IHS Sw Bill Jagger, Sir Thomas Bouch, Victorian civil engineer - hero, villain, victim, or bad PR? Mon 18 19.30 IAG NY David Johnson, Thorns through time: anatomy of a deserted settlement (followed by drinks and mince pies) Wed 20 19.30 ERAS ER Professor Martin Carver, Early Medieval Sicily Thu 21 19.30 OHS WY Richard Freeman, Shipley Glen tramway and fair

January 2018

Mon 8 19.30 SAHS NY Stephen Gandolfi, The development of Eastfield (featuring artwork by Marcus Whitmore) Tues 9 19.30 HUN SY Ken Smith, The Peak District, Past, present and future Wed 10 19.30 WHS WY Andrew Cox-Whitaker, The Ingenious Mr Elwick and the Wakefield furniture trade (Joint meeting with the Civic Society; venue will be The Elizabethan Gallery) Sat 13 11.00 FHS Sw Jane Ellis, Do you remember the old cinemas of Leeds?

Sat 13 14.00 MS Sw Dr Stefan Maeder, 'Mirrors for men?' - a technological and cultural comparison of European and Japanese medieval swords Mon 15 19.15 TS WY Members' Evening - John Turney, Robert Baker and the 1832 Cholera Map of Leeds; and Michael Meadowcroft, The Family Throp - sculptors of Leeds Wed 17 19.30 ERAS ER David Williams, The Yorkshire Post site excavations Wed 17 19.30 YAYAS Yk Dr Emma Wells, The Kiplin Hall estate Thu 18 19.30 OHS WY Kirsty McHugh, Progress, poetry and the picturesque: John Marshall and the Wordsworths Fri 19 19.15 PDAS WY Eric Houlder, Infrared aerial photography in archaeology - a historiography Fri 19 19.30 HAHS NY Dr John Kenyon, Helmsley Castle - fortress or home? Mon 22 19.30 SAHS NY David Sutcliffe, The history of the Scarborough Amicable Society Sat 20 14.00 RAS Sw Professor Martin Millett, Excavations at Thwing and recent research on the Romano-British landscapes of the Great Wold Valley Wed 24 19.30 FoG NY Annual General Meeting, followed by Dr Peter Addyman, Creating the Historic Towns Atlas for York Thu 25 19.30 SCHS NY David Turner, Farms, families and feuds - The letters and journal of an Eastby land agent Sat 27 11.00 IHS Sw Stewart Liles, Whitakers of Horsforth - Engineers, contractors, quarry owners and brickmakers

February 2018

Fri 2 19.45 HDAS WY Dr Jamie Quartermaine, Cumbria to Cambria - a comparison of the archaeological landscapes from two distinct upland regions Mon 5 19.30 SAHS NY Members’ evening Thu 8 19.30 SCHS NY Susan Wrathmell, The Cresap Family in England and America Sat 10 11.00 FHS Sw Des Hurley, The Irish in Leeds Sat 10 14.00 MS Sw Christiane Kroebel, St Hild - her monastery and her legacy Tues 13 19.30 HUN SY Louis Oliver-Lortie, Craft communities - Material resources and metal economy in early Roman South Yorkshire Wed 14 19.30 WHS WY Eddie Downes, Nationalised Wakefield Collieries and a brief history of the Mines Rescue Service Thu 15 19.30 OHS WY Richard Thackrah, Ilkley in war and peace, 1914 to 1946 Fri 16 19.15 PDAS WY Jon Kenny, Fulford, the forgotten battle of 1066 Fri 16 19.30 HAHS NY James Lyall, Archaeology without excavation - how remote sensing has changed our perception of the past Sat 17 11.00 IHS Sw Steve Wyatt, Events and occurrences at Yorkshire collieries, from a miner's perspective Mon 19 19.15 TS WY Dr David Thornton, Leeds parliamentary election

Mon 19 19.30 SAHS NY Chris Hall, The history of Dean Road and Manor Road cemeteries Wed 21 19.30 ERAS ER Dr Yvonne Inall, Living and dying by the spear in Iron Age East Yorkshire Wed 21 19.30 YAYAS Yk Charles Anelay, Historic building restoration - a perspective Thu 22 19.30 SCHS NY Robin Longbottom and Chris Riley, Boundaries and boundary stones of South Craven Tues 27 19.30 HUN SY Dr Jane Rempal, Sinop Kale excavations - Investigations of an ancient Greek settlement on the Turkish Black Sea coast

March 2018

Fri 2 19.45 HDAS WY Speaker and title to be confirmed Mon 5 19.30 SAHS NY John Oxley, From Quintus Petillius Cerialis to Elizabeth II - 1950 years in the life of York city walls Wed 7 19.30 FoG NY Dr Mark Roodhouse, Organising British crime - 1920-1970 Thu 8 19.30 SCHS NY Chris Lunnon, The burning of Skipton (14th century) Sat 10 11.00 FHS Sw Jackie Depelle, Nineteenth-century boom and bust (Exploring business and family fortunes) Sat 10 14.00 MS Sw Dr Tony Willmott, Living and dying in Medieval Lincolnshire: excavations at the Hospital of St James, Thornton Abbey Wed 14 19.30 WHS WY AGM and Members’ Evening Thu 15 19.30 OHS WY Professor Andrew Breeze, Ancient Celtic Yorkshire Fri 16 19.15 PDAS WY Dr Steve Sherlock, Anglo-Saxons in the Tees Valley Fri 16 19.30 HAHS NY Dr Rachel Wood, Prehistoric, Iron Age and Roman Crambeck - A pottery production landscape in context Sat 17 11.00 IHS Sw Andrew Hurrell, Samuel Fox and his Stocksbridge Steelworks Sat 17 14.00 RAS Sw Dr Jacqueline Cahill Wilson, New light on the Romans in Ireland Mon 19 19.15 TS WY Simon Popple, Between public and private: Arthur Ransome's photographs of the Russian Revolution Mon 19 19.30 SAHS NY Yvonne Luke, The neolithic in the Yorkshire Dales Tues 20 19.30 HUN SY Alistair McLean, Philosophical foundations - The origins of Sheffield's first public museum (preceded by Annual General Meeting) Wed 21 19.30 ERAS ER Dr David Neave, Farmhouses and cottages of the East Riding 1500 - 1800 Wed 21 19.30 YAYAS Yk Al Oswald, Roman silver mining in the North Pennines Thu 22 19.30 SCHS NY Robin Bundy, George Birkbeck - Pioneer of Adult Education Sat 24 11.00 PreRS Sw Members' morning (two lectures - details to be confirmed) Sat 24 14.00 PreRS Sw Alison Deegan, Yorkshire henges and their environs - Air photo mapping project

April 2018

Fri 6 19.45 HDAS WY Speaker and title to be confirmed Wed 11 19.30 WHS WY Cara Sutherland, Object Voices: Interpreting all our stories at the Mental Health Museum, Fieldhead, Wakefield Thu 12 19.30 SCHS NY Jean Robinson, Raikes Road Burial Ground, Skipton: The next instalment Sat 14 11.00 FHS Sw Jo Heron, A cautionary tale Sat 14 14.00 MS Sw Dr Louise Hampson, Topic (on stained glass) to be confirmed Mon 16 18.45 TS WY Annual General Meeting, plus lecture by Professor John Chartres (topic to be confirmed) Mon 16 19.30 SAHS NY Annual General Meeting Wed 18 19.30 ERAS ER Rebecca Griffiths, The work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Wed 18 19.30 YAYAS Yk Sally Walker, Understanding and future-proofing historic buildings Thu 19 19.30 OHS WY Jamie Roberts, Kilnsey Show (Also Annual General Meeting) Fri 20 19.15 PDAS WY John Buglass, Boats in a coalmine - the St Aidan's dig twenty years on Fri 20 19.30 HAHS NY Dr Sonia O'Connor, The York helmet - biography of an iconic object (Preceded by Annual General Meeting) Tues 24 19.30 HUN SY Bob Johnson, In Cadair's shadow - A hydrological history of the Dysynni Valley, North Wales Thu 26 19.30 SCHS NY Peter Bewes, Reminiscences of a 1940s errand Boy Fri 27 19.15 PDAS WY Annual General meeting (members only) Sat 28 10.30 IHS Sw Annual General Meeting plus members' presentations Mon 30 19.30 SAHS NY Professor Nicky Milner, Recent excavations at the early mesolithic site of Star Carr

May 2018

Sat 12 11.00 FHS Sw Edgar Holroyd-Doverton, Tracing your Empire ancestors (India) Sat 12 14.00 MS Sw Charles Jones, Recent work on the Fulford 1066 battlefield Wed 16 19.30 YAYAS Yk Keri Rowsell, Post-medieval poverty in England - Scurvy, spuds and something like tea ... Sat 19 14.00 RAS Sw Kurt Hunter-Mann, The Romans at Ravenglass

June 2018

Sat 9 11.00 FHS Sw Cyril Pearce, New thoughts on Britain's war resistors, 1914-1919

OTHER SOCIETIES AND GROUPS AFFILIATED WITH THE YAHS Please note that some of the societies and groups listed below arrange their programmes on a calendar year basis. If therefore no meetings are listed after December 2017, please check the website again later in the year and/or the website of the other society or group itself for details of events during 2018.

In addition, where a group is mentioned below but no details are given in the programme listing above, details of the group's events were not available at the time this booklet was printed. Please therefore again check the YAHS website later in the year and/or the website of the other society or group itself for details available in due course.

Please also note that although we have done our best to make sure that the information we include in the listing above, and the details given below, are correct, changes may occasionally occur. Checking the societies' or groups' own websites, where they have them, or getting in touch with the contact person listed, may be advisable before attending an event, particularly if you will need to travel some distance, or at some cost.

ERAS East Riding Archaeological and Richard Coates History Society, meet at Room LT1, Floor 1, email: [email protected] Wilberforce Building, University of Hull web: http://www.eras.org.uk/ FoG Forest of Galtres Society, meet in the Helen Kirk, Crawford House, Long Street, Parish Church Room, Easingwold. Easingwold, York, YO61 3JB. Non-members £2.00 email: [email protected] web: http://www.forestofgaltressociety.org/ HAHS Helmsley Archaeological and Jen Harris, Chairman Historical Society, meet in North Yorks Moors email: [email protected] National Park Authority Committee Room, web: http://www.helmsleyarchaeologicaland Bondgate, Helmsley. Non-members £3.00 historicalsociety.org.uk/ HAS Harrogate Archaeological Society, meet Janis Heward in Harlow Hill Methodist Church, Otley Road, Tel: 01423 564197 Harrogate. Free on street parking. Frequent email: [email protected] bus service. Talks followed by refreshments. web: http://harrogatearchsoc.co.uk/ £1 members. £3 for non-members HDAS Huddersfield and District Sandra Harling Archaeological Society, usually meet at The Tel: 01484 511400 Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield. email: [email protected] Non-members £2.50 web: http://www.huddarch.org.uk/ HUN Hunter Archaeological Society, meet in Dr Ruth Morgan Workroom 1 in The Diamond Building, Tel: 0114 288 2640 University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, email: secretary@ Sheffield, S3 7RD. Small donation hunterarchaeologicalsociety.org.uk appreciated from non-members web: https://sites.google.com/site/ hunterarchaeologicalsociety/ IAG Ingleborough Archaeology Group, meet Carol Howard in Ingleton Community Centre email: ingleborougharchaeologygroup@ gmail.com web: http://www.ingleborougharchaeology group.org.uk/

MDLHG Middleham and Dales Local History Tony Keates Group, meet at Middleham Key Centre. Tel: 01969 640436 Non-members £3 email: [email protected] web: http://www.middlehamonline.com/ MDLH Group.htm OHS Olicana Historical Society, meet at John Cruse, Tel: 01943 870952 All Saints Church House, Ilkley (except on 21 email: [email protected] Sept and 16 Nov meet in The Sanctuary, Christchurch, Grove Road). Non-members £2 PDAS Pontefract and District Archaeological Ms J Niepokojczycka, Lectures Secretary Society, meet at the Central Methodist Tel: 01977 618327 Church, Newgate, Pontefract, WF8 1NB. web: http://www.pontarc.org.uk/ Non-members £3 SAHS Scarborough Archaeological and Keith Johnston Historical Society, meet in the Concert Room, email: [email protected] Central Library, Vernon Road, Scarborough. web: http://www.sahs.org.uk/ Small fee for non-members SCHS Skipton and Craven Historical Society, Dr Kenneth Jackson meet at the Swadford Centre, Swadford email: [email protected] Street, Skipton. Non-members £2 TS Thoresby Society, meet at Friends’ Mrs D Taylor, The Thoresby Society, c/o The Meeting House, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds. Leeds Library, 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, LS1 6AL web: http://www.thoresby.org.uk/ UWFS Upper Wharfedale Field Society, Rita and Ian Clarke meet in the Octagon Theatre, Grassington email: [email protected] Town Hall. web: http://www.upperwharfedalefield society.co.uk/ UWHG Upper Wharfedale Heritage Group, Vera Brearey meet in the Soroptomist Rooms, 28 Otley email: [email protected] Street, Skipton. Non-members £3 (talks), web: http://www.uwhg.org.uk/ £2 (walks). WHS Wakefield Historical Society, meet in Dr Phil Judkins, Secretary Chantry Chapel, Wakefield Bridge (apart from [email protected] Dec and Jan meetings) web: http://www.wakefieldhistoricalsoc.org.uk/ WLPS Whitby Literary and Philosophical Hazel Wright, Operations Manager Society, meet in Normanby Room, Whitby email: [email protected] Museum web: whitbymuseum.org.uk YAYAS Yorkshire Architectural and York Dr Rosemary Suttill, Lectures Secretary Archaeological Society, meet at the Friends' email: [email protected] Meeting House, Friargate, York. web: www.yayas.org.uk Non-members £2 YPS Yorkshire Philosophical Society, meet in Frances Chambers, Clerk Tempest Anderson Hall, Museum Gardens, email: [email protected] York. Donation invited from non-members. web: http://www.ypsyork.org/ YVBSG Yorkshire Vernacular Mary Cook, Secretary Buildings Study Group email: [email protected] web: http://www.yvbsg.org.uk/