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Winter Programme 2012/3
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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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| Date |
Time |
Subject
/ Presenter |
| Friday,
16 September 2011 |
7.30pm |
"The
Harrison Collection, illustrated with some items from the Collection"
- Mr Edward Harrison |
| Friday,
21 October 2011 |
7.30pm |
"Pre-conquest
parish development in NE Yorkshire" - Ms
Christiane Kroebel |
| Friday,
18 November 2011 |
7.30pm |
"Duggleby
Howe, one of the largest Neolithic monuments in Britain"
- Dr
Alex Gibson |
| Friday,
20 January 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Shandy
Hall, Coxwold" - Mr
Patrick Wildgust |
| Friday,
17 February 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Manors
and Manorial Estates in North Yorkshire" - Dr
Barry Harrison |
| Friday,
16 March 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Hungate,
York - a five year excavation" - Dr
Peter Connelly |
| Friday,
20 April 2012 |
7.00pm |
AGM,
then Social (with refreshments), followed by mini-talks by Members |
| Friday,
21 September 2012 |
7.30pm |
"Twelve
Ryedale Men who Fought at Waterloo" - Paul
Brunyee |
| Friday,
19 October 2012 |
7.30pm |
"The
Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon Hoard" - Prof. Joyce Hill |
| Friday,
16 November 2012 |
7.30pm |
To
be announced |
| Friday,
18th January 2013 |
7.30pm |
"The
History of the Pickering North York Moors Railway" - Mark
Sissons (Archivist
for the NYMR) |
The past programme for 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008 is listed below:
| Date |
Time |
Subject / Presenter |
| 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
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| Sunday,
17 October 2010 |
2.30pm |
Visit to Cawthorn
Camps
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| Friday,
15 October 2010 |
7.30pm |
"Cawthorn
Camps", Dr Peter Wilson
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| 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
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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,
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,
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
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| 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,
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
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"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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