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Winter Programme 2010/11
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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,
17 September 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The
Viking Age in North Yorkshire", Dr
Martin Arnold |
| Friday,
15 October 2010 |
7.30pm |
"Cawthorn
Camps", Dr Peter Wilson
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| Sunday,
17 October 2010 |
2.30pm |
Visit to Cawthorn
Camps
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| Friday,
19 November 2010 |
7.30pm |
"The
Spanish Flu Epidemic in York", Mr Martin Knight
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| Friday,
21 January 2011 |
7.30pm |
"The
View From Above" - English
Heritage and the National Mapping Programme, Mr Dave MacLeod |
| Friday,
18 February 2011 |
7.30pm |
"Archaeology
of The River Foss Navigation" - Mr Christopher Dunn |
| Friday,
18 March 2011 |
7.30pm |
"The
Iron Ore Industry in Rosedale" - Mr
Graham Lee |
| Friday,
15 April, 2011 |
7.30pm |
AGM,
mini-talks by Members, and Social |
The past programme for 2010, 2009 and 2008 is listed below:
| Date |
Time |
Subject / Presenter |
| 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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