may 2012

11 May 2012, 7 pm The Luddites and the Pennines. Huddersfield Town Hall, 7.pm The University of Huddersfield invite you to find out about The Luddites & a Sense of Place in the Pennines with Dr Navickas, a specialist in the study of popular movements in the North of England. This enlightening evening will be followed by a lively exchange in the bar and features traditional Luddite songs performed by Jim Potter and Alma Wright.
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Saturday 12 May 11.00 Yorkshire Archaeological Society (YAS). Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NZ.
YAS Family History Section AGM followed by Leeds - Black City Stephen Mosley

Sunday,13th May Start: 2.15 p.m. Hammer and Shears Company, Performance commemorating 200 years since the Luddite Uprising. Roberttown Community Centre Church Road, Roberttown, Liversedge, WF15 7LS For Tickets Contact: John and Marina Hayward – 01924 485573
more information: www.darksatanicmills.com

Tuesday 15 May 7.30pm YAS Roman Antiquities/ York Philosophical Society Looking down on Roman Yorkshire – an aerial archaeologist's view Dave MacLeod

Saturday/Sunday 19/20 May 11am to 4pm Chantry Chapel Exhibition: Marking the first anniversary of the opening of the Hepworth Wakefield, Brian Holding.

Saturday 19th May 2pm Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NZ YAS, Roman Antiquities, Locks, Keys and the Criminous – security in Roman Britain Lindsay Allason Jones

Tuesday 22 May 7.30 pm Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, York. Peat bogs, climate change and prehistoric pyromania. Jeff Blackford

Tuesday 29 May 7.30pm Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, York. Tulipomania: Banking with Bulbs during the Golden Age of Dutch Culture. Eric T Haskell

advance notices

Sat 9 June Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NZ, YAS Family History Section, Historic Maps, people & places. Stephen Moorhouse.

16 June 2012, Local History Day 2012, British Association for Local History, Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS. More information: British Association for Local History

Wednesday 27 June Westgate Chapel, Wakefield and the Crimean War, Anthony Dawson.
more information: news

CBA Festival of British Archaeology Events:
Monday 16 July, 10.30a.m, Chantry Chapel, Exploring the imagery in the stained glass and the frieze, Kate Taylor. Wednesday 18 July, 7pm Westgate Chapel: An American Family in Wakefield. John Goodchild M.Univ
Friday/Saturday 20/21 July, 11am to 4pm Chantry Chapel: Alfred Ellis and Son, Ironfounders – an exhibition of archive material and some artefacts from a Wakefield company that was founded in 1850 and made brass and other fittings for equipment in the mining industry; the exhibition is presented by Brian Holding.

Saturday 14 July, Sandal Castle, 3pm. To Make Their Eyes Water, the Battle of Ferrybridge, 27-28 March 1461, talk by Alan Stringer. More information: News

Saturday 21 July, 11am, Westgate Chapel, The Whaling Industry in Yorkshire. John Goodchild M.Univ.

Thursday 9 August, 7pm, Westgate Chapel The end of the Church of England – 1662. John Goodchild, M.Univ.
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