Winter Programme 2010/11

 

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.



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

Sunday, 17 October 2010 2.30pm

Visit to Cawthorn Camps

Friday, 19 November 2010 7.30pm

"The Spanish Flu Epidemic in York", Mr Martin Knight

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

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