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Winter Programme 2009/10
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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.
Google
Map of the location.
These are invariably lectures by a visiting speaker, and cover
a variety of subjects.
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| Date |
Time |
Subject / Presenter |
| Friday,
18 September, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"Meaux
Abbey " - Dr. Mary E. Carrick
See also Summer Programme visit on
Wednesday 23rd September |
| 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...
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| Friday,
20 November, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"A
royal Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Street House, NE Yorkshire"
- Stephen Sherlock
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| Friday,
15 January 2010 |
7.30pm |
"Mesolithic
excavations at Star Carr: past, present and future" - Dr
Nicky Milner, York University
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| Friday,
19 February 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The
Crimean War in general, and the battle of Balaclava in particular"
- Peter
Bleach; |
| Friday, 19 March, 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The Dead Sea Scrolls"
- Very
Revd. Dom Henry Wansbrough, OSB |
| Friday,
16 April, 2010 |
7.30pm |
AGM,
mini-talks by Members, and Social |
The past programme for 2008/9 is listed below:
| Date |
Time |
Subject / Presenter |
| Friday,
19 September, 2008 |
7.30pm |
"Memorandum
Book of Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby, 1602-1623" - Michael
Hickes |
| Sunday,
5 October, 2008 |
10.00am
- 5.00pm |
"A
Celebration of the Local History and Archaeology of the Region"
- various speakers |
| Saturday,
11 October, 2008 |
10.00am
- 12.30pm
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"Hildenley
Quarry" - click here
for much more detail |
| 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 |
| 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,
20 February, 2009 |
7.30pm |
"The
Landscape of Rievaulx Abbey" - Trevor Pearson, Scarborough
Archaeological and Historical Society |
| 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"
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| 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
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