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Winter Programme 2018 - 2019
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Most meetings are held at 7.30pm on the third Friday of each
month during the winter, at the Committee Room of the North York
Moors National Park Offices at
Helmsley, courtesy of NYMNPA.
Google
Map of the location.
These are invariably lectures by a visiting speaker, and cover
a variety of subjects.
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The Winter
Programme for 2018 - 2019 is:
| Date |
Time |
Subject
/ Presenter |
| Friday
21 Sept 2018 |
7.30pm
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“The
Hanging Grimston Community Archaeology Project”
The Hanging Grimston Community Archaeology Project was set
up to investigate the earthwork remains of the deserted medieval
village of Hanging Grimston, situated on the western edge of the
Yorkshire Wolds near to Kirby Underdale. The general plan of the
medieval village is known from the earthworks, but geophysical
survey and to date four seasons of excavation are revealing much
more detail of the site’s history. We now know that Hanging Grimston
started life as a late Iron Age/Romano-British ‘ladder settlement’
and ended up as a Tudor mansion belonging to the Bourchier family
of Beningborough Hall. The project is a joint venture of the High
Wolds Heritage Group and the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical
Society.
Marcus
Jecock (Archaeological
Investigator, Historic
England)
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| Friday
19 Oct 2018 |
7.30pm
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“Roman
Magic: Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances"
Magic
was used widely in the Roman world as a tool to bestow good luck
in life, to promote good health, to bring happiness in relationships,
and to curse enemies. This talk will introduce the subject of
Roman Magic – the objects, the substances, the rituals, and the
spells. It will discuss the material evidence from Roman Britain,
and include examples of magical objects from York and Yorkshire.
Adam
Parker (Assistant
Curator of Archaeology, Yorkshire Museum, and a PhD
researcher with the Open University)
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| Friday
16 Nov 2018 |
7.30pm
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“First
Skin Your Sheep - The practicalities and skills of manuscript
production”
We readily
recognise medieval manuscripts as treasures from the past; when
they were made, they were recognised as treasures too. But the
treasure-value of manuscripts is not simply in the wonderful finished
product: it lies also in the immense investment of livestock,
materials, time and expertise that it took to create the finished
product. What, exactly, did it take to get from the living animal
to the illuminated manuscript? What degree of wealth does this
imply? What techniques were used? What skills were required? These
are questions that will be explored in this lecture – an exploration
that will almost certainly change for ever the way you look at
these treasures from the past.
Prof.
Joyce Hill (Emeritus
Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Leeds)
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| Friday
18 Jan 2019 |
7.30pm
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“Isotopic
Magic - How
does isotopic analysis identify human migrants in the past?”
Have you
ever wondered how archaeologists decide whether the person in
a Viking grave is from Scandinavia or a local chap who was buried
with a sword and shield and a silver Thor's hammer? This talk
will explain how isotope analysis of the skeleton can help with
such questions and dig down into some of the uncertainties and
problems involved. It is never as simple as the media like to
portray it! Janet Montgomery was the first researcher to develop
the use of these methods on archaeological skeletons in Britain
and her work has featured in programmes such as Meet the Ancestors
and Secrets of the Dead for over 20 years.
Prof.
Janet Montgomery (Professor
in the Department of Archaeology, Durham
University
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| Friday
15 Feb 2019 |
7.30pm
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“York’s
Baedeker Raid”
The presentation
looks at the background to the Baedeker Raids and the resources
available in 1942 to locate enemy aircraft and to defend York.
Was there only “the lone French airman” defending the city and
what actually happened to the troop train in York station? The
events of April 29th 1942 in the air and on the ground, are explained.
The presentation concludes with a “then & now” journey through
parts of York.
Malcolm
Brooke
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| Friday
15 Mar 2019 |
7.30pm
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“Anglo-Saxon
and Viking communities in the Vale and on the Wolds”
Almost
all the rural communities in the Vale of Pickering and on the
nearby Wolds were in existence by the time of the Norman conquest.
By then, many of them were already centuries old. This talk will
outline current research into how and when these communities were
formed, using place-names recorded in Domesday Book and township
boundaries mapped systematically for the first time in the mid-19th
century. It will also focus on the impact of Scandinavian settlement
in these areas during the late 9th and 10th centuries, in the
wake of the Viking invasions.
Stuart
Wrathmell ( Heritage Consultant)
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| Friday
12 Apr 2019 |
6:50pm
(AGM)
7.30pm
(talk)
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AGM,
followed by:
“Roman
Rubbish and Out of Town Shopping'”
John
Buglass (JB
Archaeology Ltd)
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Past lectures are listed below:
| Date |
Time |
Subject / Presenter |
| Friday
20 Apr 2018 |
6:50pm
(AGM)
7.30pm
(talk)
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AGM, followed
by:
“The
York Helmet: biography of an iconic object ”
The York
helmet is perhaps York’s most well-known Anglian object, but what
do we really know about it?
This talk uncovers how, through its examination and conservation,
the fascinating story of the helmet, from its manufacture in the
8th century to its discovery in 1982, was pieced together.
Dr
Sonia O'Connor (Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford)
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| Friday
16 Mar 2018 |
7.30pm |
“Prehistoric,
Iron Age and Roman Crambeck: A Pottery Production Landscape in
Context”
Dr
Rachel Wood (Freelance Archaeologist, rwarchaeology.com)
First excavated
in the 1920s, Crambeck has long been recognised as having a major
role in late Roman pottery supply across northern Britain. Situated
halfway between York and Malton, Crambeck is known for its beige
finewares and grey tablewares, but has never been investigated
as part of a whole landscape.
The speaker’s
research examined its landscape context, including prehistoric,
Iron Age, and Roman use of the space. The talk will discuss the
background of the site, previous investigations, and recent research.
Three themes will emerge: settlement and occupation, trade and
economy, and ritual and burial. New discoveries will be highlighted
in the context of previous understandings of the site. A new story
of this landscape will be presented, along with outstanding questions
and possible avenues of future research.
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| Friday
16 Feb 2018 |
7.30pm |
“Archaeology
without excavation - how remote sensing has changed our perception
of the past”
James
Lyall (Geophiz.biz)
The talk will describe how remote sensing, and in particular
geophysical survey, has changed the way we look at and understand
our archaeological heritage. The speaker will give a brief history
of the subject, and then using a number of case studies, will
demonstrate how much we can learn without ever requiring a trowel
to scrape the soil.
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| Friday
19 Jan 2018 |
7.30pm |
“Helmsley
Castle - fortress or home?”
Dr
John Kenyon (Honorary Research Fellow with the National
Museum of Wales)
This talk
will examine the history of the building of the castle, and discuss
whether Helmsley should be seen as more stately home than fortress.
Its role in early modern times, along with other castles of the
period, will be touched upon. The talk will also stress that there
is more to be learnt!
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| Friday
17 Nov 2017 |
7.30pm |
“Excavations
at York Minster 1829 - 2012”
Ian
Milsted (Lead Archaeologist at the York Archaeological Trust)
YAT excavated
beneath York Minster during the 2012 renovation works in the undercroft.
This space beneath the cathedral was created during the emergency
engineering works of the 1960s and 70s when the central tower
was saved from collapse by major underpinning works. These works
revealed the archaeology of the site reaching back to the Roman
period when it was the location of the fortress headquarters of
Eboracum. Records from work done at the cathedral since the early
19th century were vital in piecing together what was revealed
in 2012.
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| Friday
20 Oct 2017 |
7.30pm |
“The
writing on the wall: the concealed communities of the East Yorkshire
horselads"
Dr
Kate Giles and Dr
Melanie Giles (Senior Lecturers in Archaeology at the University
of York, and the University of Manchester, respectively)
Tucked
away in the granaries and barns of East Yorkshire are the remains
of 19th and 20th century graffiti, created by the horse lads of
East Yorkshire. The horse lads were part of a distinctive way
of farming on the High Wolds, where groups of men lived and worked
the land together with their horses. Their lives were hard and
the farms remote, but this created strong hierarchies within and
bonds between these communities. The graffiti records their everyday
lives but also experiences during the first and second world wars,
including the Wolds Wagoners and the presence of Land Girls. Gradually,
as horses gave way to tractors, the graffiti also records the
impact of mechanisation on farming practices and the loss of traditional
farming practices.
Several
years ago, archaeology twins Dr Mel Giles (University of Manchester)
and Dr Kate Giles (University of York) carried out survey work
in and around the Birdsall Estate, recording her rapidly-disappearing
evidence of this graffiti. This research resonated closely with
a major oral history project on the horse lads, carried out with
the surviving horse lads by Dr Stephen Caunce. In this lecture,
they share the results of their findings and consider the way
in which this research has impacted on archaeologists' broader
attitudes to recording these ephemeral traces of traditional life.
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| Friday
15 Sept 2017 |
7.30pm |
“The
2nd Earl of Feversham remembered on the 101st anniversary
of his death at the Somme”
Martin
Vander Weyer (Journalist and Writer)
Recollections
of ‘Charlie Helmsley’, 2nd Earl of Feversham as a young man at
Oxford, on the hunting field, as an up-and-coming Unionist MP,
and as commanding officer of the ill-fated Yeoman Rifles battalion
raised at Duncombe Park.
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| Friday
21 Apr 2017 |
6:50pm
(AGM)
7.30pm
(talk)
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AGM, followed
by:
"Aldborough
- new research on the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum" - Prof.
Martin Millett (University of Cambridge, Department of Classical
Archaeology)
Isurium
Brigantum (Roman Aldborough) was the administrative centre of
a large part of northern Britain, but because it is overlain by
a medieval village, it is comparatively poorly understood. Since
2009 a project based at Cambridge University has been seeking
to provide a better understanding of the town through the use
of a variety of remote sensing methods. This survey provides much
new evidence, and allows us to think more clearly about the history
of the site. This lecture will present the results of our work.
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| Friday
17 Mar 2017 |
7.30pm |
"Climate change
and human occupation at the end of the Ice Age: Star
Carr and Flixton Island, North Yorkshire - Prof.
Nicky Milner (University
of York, Department of Archaeology)
The talk
will cover the last 12 years of excavation at the internationally
renowned site of Star Carr, which dates back 11,000 years. It
will provide an insight into how hunter gatherers coped with climate
change at the end of the last Ice Age, and how they built substantial
timber structures on the edge of the lake, created art in the
form of a pendant and made headdresses out of red deer skulls.
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| Friday
17 Feb 2017 |
7.30pm |
Forty years
of excavation at Wharram
Percy in hindsight: time for a fresh start?" - Alastair
Oswald
The surface
remains of the world's favourite deserted medieval village - Wharram
Percy - were first mapped in the 1850s and a larger-scale, more
detailed plan of the earthworks was made and revised in parallel
with the excavations that continued for most of the second half
of the 20th century. Nevertheless, as almost the final chapter
of fieldwork on the site, in the early 2000s English Heritage
carried out a comprehensive new survey of the 'humps and bumps',
coupled with new geophysical surveys. Far from merely 'dotting
the i's and crossing the t's' left by previous research, these
new investigations served, on the one hand, to explain some of
the most puzzling findings of some of the earlier excavations
and, on the other hand, to raise a series of new questions about
the site, which as yet remain unaddressed.
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| Friday
20 Jan 2017 |
7.30pm |
"An Honest
Gyles" - Susan
Harrison (Curator (collections) North Territory, English
Heritage)
This talk
will focus on a window made by the eminent
glass painter of York, Henry
Gyles, in 1699 and reveal the story of its discovery, research,
conservation and display.
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| Friday
18 Nov 2016 |
7.30pm |
Archaeology
and Architecture of Byland Abbey - Stuart
Harrison (Cathedral
Archaeologist of York Minster)
This presentation will show how the stonework revealed by
excavation of the site relates to the remaining structure, enabling
a clearer understanding of the architecture of this important
Cistercian abbey.
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| Friday
21 Oct 2016 |
7.30pm |
"Reinterpretation
of human remains from the Ryedale Windypits" - Dr
Stephany Leach
This presentation
will discuss the results of an archaeological and anthropological
reinvestigation of the human remains recovered from the Ryedale
Windypits in the North York Moors. Prior to this reanalysis, the
skeletal collections had received only minimal anthropological
study and were all generally considered to be Late Neolithic or
Early Bronze Age in date and derived from complete burials.
Through direct radiocarbon
analysis of human bone samples, a much greater temporal range
of use of these fissures was identified. Evidence for high levels
of interpersonal violence was also identified during this investigation.
The significance of these findings will be explored and discussed
in relation to other contemporary sites and activities. Human
skeletal remains are an incredibly important resource; they have
much to contribute to our knowledge of these subterranean sites.
This evidence enables us to build new theories and hypotheses
relating to past cultural behaviour at these sites and so further
explore the ramifications of 'going underground'.
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| Friday,
16 Sept 2016 |
7.30pm |
"Roman Wealth:
Interpreting the 'Helmsley'
hoard of silver coins" - Dr
Andrew Woods (Numismatic
Curator, Yorkshire
Museum)
The ‘Helmsley’
hoard of Roman silver coins was buried at an interesting time
for Roman Yorkshire and its currency. The hoard was buried in
the years after the emperor Septimius Severus died in York. The
hoard is dominated by his coins and those of his family. The coins
are also amongst the last coins hidden before the chaos of the
Roman empire in the third century would alter the coinage forever.
This talk
will examine the coins found in the hoard, comparing them to other
hoards across Yorkshire and considering what we know about the
local area at the time of its burial. It will consider by whom,
when and why this cache of Roman wealth was buried.
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| Friday
15 Apr 2016 |
7.00pm
(AGM)
7.30pm
(talk)
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AGM, followed
by:
"Pioneer settlers: Yorkshire at the forefront of colonisation
of Britain" after the Ice Age" - Don
Henson (University of York, Department of Archaeology)
The talk
will look at conditions in Britain at the end of the last Ice
Age and how people recolonised it as the global climatic began
to warm. We will encounter some of the earliest people to make
their homes in what is now Yorkshire, at a time when they could
have walked across dry land to Copenhagen! The excavations at
Star Carr have revealed their way of life, one very different
from our own and yet surprisingly advanced.
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| Friday
18 Mar 2016 |
7.30pm
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"The Origins
of York" - Dr
Mark Whyman (University of York, Department of Archaeology)
The talk will consider the implications of archaeological
discoveries in the landscape around York over the past twenty
years, and re-examination of the results of some older excavations
in the centre of the city, to suggest new interpretations of the
role and significance of its site before the Roman conquest of
the region, and establishment of a legionary fortress at York,
in AD 71.
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| Friday
19 Feb 2016 |
7.30pm
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"Chariot Burials
of Britain" - Dr
Melanie Giles (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University
of Manchester)
The Iron
Age chariot burials of North, West and particularly East Yorkshire,
are an internationally renowned phenomenon. Containing the complete
or dismantled remains of two-wheeled vehicles and horse trappings,
these burials are often accompanied by other marvels of Celtic
art, including weaponry, mirrors and boxes, as well as lavish
portions of meat for the afterlife. The individuals interred with
them frequently have fascinating stories to tell about daily life,
injury, disease and violence, which helps us understand the power
of these particular ancestors for their wider community.
The lecture
will also investigate the myths behind the Celtic chariot, and
its links to Continental traditions: using the archaeological
evidence to examine its technology and use, its particular significance
for Yorkshire communities, and some of the possible meanings it
held as a vehicle for the afterlife.
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| Friday
15 Jan 2016 |
7.30pm
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"This
Exploited Land: the trailblazing story of ironstone and railways
in the North York Moors" - Dr Louise Cooke (Heritage Officer,
North York Moors National Park Authority)
The perception
of the landscape of the North York Moors today as something ‘natural’
is challenged by understanding the scale and extent of exploitation
of the landscape from the end of the last Ice Age through to today.
These issues
are explored through the This Exploited Land project - a HLF Landscape
Partnership Scheme which aims to understand, protect and enhance
the landscape and its legacy of ironstone exploitation in the
North York Moors.
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| Friday
20 Nov 2015 |
7.30pm
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"Richard
III and the Middleham Jewel" - Dr
Kate Giles (University of York, Department of Archaeology)
The Middleham
Jewel is one of the most important examples of a late medieval
pendant, discovered near Middleham Castle by metal detectorists
in the 1980s. Since its discovery, the jewel has been linked to
Richard III, and today, it forms the centrepiece of the Richard
III: Man or Myth exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum.
This lecture
will explore the discovery of the Jewel and debates about its
origins, ownership and display. It will set these in the context
of what we know about the jewel's creation thanks to research
by the British Museum and share the results of recent analysis
and interpretation by students and staff at the University of
York and the Yorkshire Museum.
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| Friday
16 Oct 2015 |
7.30pm
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"Lightnings,
clouds and saints: Lastingham and its neighbours in the seventh
and eighth centuries" - Prof.
Richard Morris (University of Huddersfield, Department of
Archaeology)
The talk
will ask why so many religious houses were founded in Anglo-Saxon
Ryedale, introduce new evidence for their devotional life, surroundings
and connections, examine Lastingham's links with Bede, and suggest
reasons why the influential historian Alcuin ignored them. Taken
together, these themes offer fresh perspectives on Lastingham's
re-foundation in the late eleventh century; the talk will end
by reflecting on archaeological evidence for the significance
of the crypt.
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| Friday
18 Sept 2015 |
7.30pm
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"Meat,
Markets and Provisioning - the Many Bones of Fishergate"
- Prof.
Terry O'Connor (University of York, Department of Archaeology)
Archaeological excavations in York usually produce large quantities
of animal bone fragments, the remains of livestock, pets and vermin
that have shared the city with its human inhabitants. It was no
surprise, therefore, when excavations in 1985-6 on the old Redfearn's
glassworks on Fishergate, York, yielded a lot of bones from the
Anglian and medieval deposits. The initial study of Fishergate
bones was published in 1991, but we keep returning to the bones
to ask different questions about Fishergate, especially about
the 8th and 9th centuries, the time of Alcuin and the rebirth
of York as a city. What were people doing at Fishergate that led
to so much bone being deposited? Why so few fish? And whose cows
were they anyway? This talk reviews the main results from Fishergate,
and discusses them in the light of other studies of animal husbandry
in Anglo-Saxon England.
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| Friday
17 April 2015 |
7.00pm
(AGM)
7.30pm
(talk)
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AGM, followed
by talk:
"York:
the Lost Centuries" by Dr Ailsa Mainman (York Archaeological
Trust). This will cover Dr Mainman's current research on Anglo-Saxon
and early Viking age York.
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| Friday
20 March 2015 |
7.30pm
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"Helmsley’s
Baron and the Magna Carta" by Martin
Vander Weyer
"Helmsley’s
Baron” — Robert de Ros (1182-1227) — is chiefly remembered in
local history for having rebuilt the timber fortifications of
Helmsley Castle in stone. But he had a larger role in English
history which we shall commemorate at the Castle on 14 June this
year; he was among 25 barons elected to compel the observance
by King John of the terms of Magna Carta as agreed at Runnymede.
Having previously been loyal to John, de Ros emerged as one of
the chief ‘incentors of this pest’ — the resistance to monarchical
absolutism of which Magna Carta was the first symbol, and from
which the modern rule of law and liberty of the citizen descend.
Martin
Vander Weyer will remind us of Robert de Ros’s life story, and
lead a discussion on the significance of Magna Carta today.
Those
of you unfortunate enough to have missed Martin's excellent presentation
may be interested to know that essentially the same talk is available
on YouTube,
here... |
| Friday
20 February 2015 |
7.30pm
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“In
the Footsteps of the White Monks” by Jan Cooper
The presentation starts with a short talk about the foundation
and the aims of the Cistercian Order of monks - how they lived,
evolved and finally declined; it is followed by a pictorial tour
of some Cistercian abbeys, past and present. |
| Friday
16 Jan 2015 |
7.30pm |
"From
Yorkshire to the Caribbean: the Archaeology of the Lascelles Family
and Harewood House" - Dr
Jonathan Finch (Department of Archaeology, University of York)
The talk will explore the archaeology that tells the story
of the Lascelles family's extraordinary rise to power. It starts
by revealing the lost house of Gawthorpe, demolished when the
New House at Gawthorpe - Harewood House - was completed in the
1770s. The material left behind - ceramics and glassware - reveals
much about how they lived, but also about how ambitious they were
to improve their social status. The story of their wealth moves
to the Caribbean to explore the archaeology of the sugar plantations
on Barbados which is in marked contrast to the riches of Harewood.
Together these very different assemblages tell a fascinating story
about the dawn of the modern age.
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| Friday
21 Nov 2014 |
7.30pm |
"The
North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Local Industrial History"
- Mark Sissons (Archivist
for the NYMR) |
| Friday
17 Oct 2014 |
7.30pm |
"The
Vikings in Yorkshire" - Prof.
Joyce Hill
The Vikings came to Yorkshire as invaders, and remained as settlers.
We can see evidence of their presence in surviving artefacts and
they live with us still through our place-names, street-names and
everyday language. This illustrated talk will set the scene historically,
and will then go on to explore some of these local signs of their
presence, including recent finds such as the Vale of York Hoard,
earlier finds from the Coppergate Dig, and the eventual integration
of the Vikings’ descendants in Christian Anglo-Saxon society as
evidenced in church monuments and buildings. |
| Friday,
19 Sept 2014 |
7.30pm |
"The
Battle of Fulford - History, Archaeology
and Tapestry"
- Charles
Jones |
| Friday,
11 April 2014 |
7:00pm |
- Annual
General Meeting
- Presentation
by Brian
Walker (formerly
Wildlife Officer with the Forestry Commission in North Yorkshire)
whose responsibities included managing the 160 Scheduled Ancient
Monuments of Forestry Commission Land.
Title: ‘Heritage on the public forest estate – a risky business’
Brian
will look at the nature of heritage on Forestry Commission land,
the threats and what can be done about them. He will also take
a closer look at some of the extensive rabbit warren remains
in Wykeham Forest.
- Social,
with
refreshments
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| Friday,
21 March 2014 |
7.30pm |
"The
Parisi - Britons and Romans in the Landscape of Eastern Yorkshire"
- Dr
Peter Halkon |
| Friday,
21 Feb 2014 |
7.30pm |
"Richard
III and Sheriff Hutton" - Tony Wright
Why would
England's last Plantagenet King have had any interest in a small
Castle far from London? Did he spend any time there? These are
just two of the questions often asked about Sheriff Hutton, in
which the castle ruins loom like tall crags over the village but
occupy only the space of a paddock.
The answer
starts when we learn that the castle was not so small in 1485,
when Richard sent his surviving family there and Sheriff Hutton
not just an insignificant hamlet. Tony will show just how large
the Castle was and why a large castle had been built there, what
Richard's connection was with it and why it is possible that we
will find out whether or not the monument in the parish church
really is that of his only son, Edward.
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| Friday,
17th Jan 2014 |
7.30pm |
"Iconoclasm:
the dissolution of the monasteries" - Susan
Harrison (Curator, Archaeology Collections, English Heritage):
This talk
sets the scene on the eve of the dissolution in the 1530s and
explores the destruction of Northern Abbeys, with a particular
focus on Rievaulx Abbey
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| Friday,
15th Nov 2013 |
7.30pm |
"A
Church Scandal in Victorian Pickering" - Edward
Royle (Emeritus
Professor of History at the University of York) |
| Friday,
18th Oct 2013 |
7.30pm |
"The
Romans in North Yorkshire" - Dr
Pete Wilson
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| Friday,
20th Sept 2013 |
7.30pm |
"Restoration
of Stone Buildings, with reference to York
House, Malton" - Nigel
Copsey |
| Friday,
19 April 2013 |
7.00pm |
AGM, then
Social (with refreshments), followed by mini-talks by Members,
including:
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| Friday,
15th March 2013 |
7.30pm |
"The
Valley of the First Iron Masters: an exploration of an ancient East
Yorkshire landscape" - Dr
Peter Halkon |
| Friday,
15th February 2013 |
7.30pm |
"The
Medieval Frescoes of St Peter and St Paul, Pickering Parish Church"
- Dr
Kate Giles |
| Friday,
18th January 2013 |
7.30pm |
"The
History of the Pickering North York Moors Railway" - Mark
Sissons (Archivist
for the NYMR) |
| Friday,
16 November 2012 |
7.30pm |
"The
Restoration of Howsham Mill" - Ms
Mo MacLeod |
| Friday,
19 October 2012 |
7.30pm |
"The
Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon Hoard" - Prof. Joyce Hill |
| Friday,
21 September 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Twelve
Ryedale Men who Fought at Waterloo" - Paul
Brunyee |
| Friday,
20 April 2012 |
7.00pm |
AGM,
then Social (with refreshments), followed by mini-talks by Members |
| Friday,
16 March 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Hungate,
York - a five year excavation" - Dr
Peter Connelly |
| Friday,
17 February 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Manors
and Manorial Estates in North Yorkshire" - Dr
Barry Harrison |
| Friday,
20 January 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Shandy
Hall, Coxwold" - Mr
Patrick Wildgust |
| Friday,
18 November 2011 |
7.30pm |
"Duggleby
Howe, one of the largest Neolithic monuments in Britain"
- Dr
Alex Gibson |
| Friday,
21 October 2011 |
7.30pm |
"Pre-conquest
parish development in NE Yorkshire" - Ms
Christiane Kroebel |
| Friday,
16 September 2011 |
7.30pm |
"The
Harrison Collection, illustrated with some items from the Collection"
- Mr Edward Harrison |
| Friday,
15 April, 2011 |
7.00pm |
AGM, then
Social (with refreshments), followed by mini-talks by Members
- including:
- "A
Religious Guild in Ryedale: the Guild & Chapel of St Crux in
Sheriff Hutton" - Tony Wright
- Barbara
Hickman - subject to be announced
There will
also be a display about the Watercourses
Continuation Project
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| Friday,
18 March 2011 |
7.30pm |
"The
Iron Ore Industry in Rosedale" - Mr
Graham Lee |
| Friday,
18 February 2011 |
7.30pm |
"Archaeology
of The River Foss Navigation" - Mr Christopher Dunn |
| Friday,
21 January 2011 |
7.30pm |
"The
View From Above" - English
Heritage and the National Mapping Programme, Mr Dave MacLeod |
| Friday,
19 November 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The
Spanish Flu Epidemic in York", Mr Martin Knight
|
| Sunday,
17 October 2010 |
2.30pm |
Visit to Cawthorn
Camps
|
| Friday,
15 October 2010 |
7.30pm |
"Cawthorn
Camps", Dr Peter Wilson
|
| Friday,
17 September 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The
Viking Age in North Yorkshire", Dr
Martin Arnold |
| Friday,
16 April, 2010 |
7.30pm |
AGM,
mini-talks by Members, and Social |
| Friday,
19 March, 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The Dead Sea Scrolls"
- Very
Revd. Dom Henry Wansbrough, OSB |
| Friday,
19 February 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The
Crimean War in general, and the battle of Balaclava in particular"
- Peter
Bleach; |
| Friday,
15 January 2010 |
7.30pm |
"Mesolithic
excavations at Star Carr: past, present and future" - Dr
Nicky Milner, York University
|
| Friday,
20 November, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"A
royal Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Street House, NE Yorkshire"
- Stephen Sherlock
|
| Friday,
16 October, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"Beyond the Vale of Pickering:
recent excavations at Boltby Scar Hillfort" - Professor
Dominic Powlesland, Institute
for Medieval Studies,University of Leeds
This is a change of subject:
Prof Powlesland has just finished excavating there and will be
talking about it...
|
| Friday,
18 September, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"Meaux
Abbey " - Dr. Mary E. Carrick
See also Summer Programme visit on
Wednesday 23rd September |
| Friday,
17 April, 2009 |
7.30pm |
A.G.M., mini-talks
by Members & Social:
- Basil Wharton
- "The Benefits of Coastal Erosion"
- David Johnson
- "Rievaulx Great Arch"
- Jim Halliday will
be mounting a small exhibition, including finds from Byland
Abbey and Norton cemetery
- Alfred Williamson
will be bringing along some old photographs of Helmsley
- Paula Ware will
be available to check on any finds we may bring along
|
| Friday,
20 March, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"Letting in the Light:
The Yorkshire Museum's Treasures" - Dr Andrew Morrison, Curator
of the Yorkshire
Museum.
"A quick run through the museum's history, treasures and
plans for the future in a light hearted and hopefully entertaining
way - whilst still filling the talk with information"
|
| Friday,
20 February, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"The Landscape of Rievaulx Abbey" - Trevor Pearson, Scarborough
Archaeological and Historical Society |
| Friday,
16 January, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"The
First World War - generals had no choice in the way they waged
the war, given the state of military technology and communications
at the time" - Peter Bleach: English Heritage |
| Friday,
17 October, 2008 |
7.30pm |
Working
title: "E.H. Conservation Principles in Action" - Keith
Emerick, Inspector of Ancient Monuments: English Heritage. |
| Friday,
21 November, 2008 |
7.30pm |
"Carved
in Stone - geology and vernacular architecture" - Rod
Mill, Chairman: Yorkshire
Wolds Heritage Trust |
| Saturday,
11 October, 2008 |
10.00am
- 12.30pm
|
"Hildenley
Quarry" - click here
for much more detail |
| Sunday,
5 October, 2008 |
10.00am
- 5.00pm |
"A
Celebration of the Local History and Archaeology of the Region"
- various speakers |
| Friday,
19 September, 2008 |
7.30pm |
"Memorandum
Book of Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby, 1602-1623" - Michael
Hickes |
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