Winter Programme 2009/10

 

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, 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...

Friday, 20 November, 2009 7.30pm

"A royal Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Street House, NE Yorkshire" - Stephen Sherlock

Friday, 15 January 2010 7.30pm

"Mesolithic excavations at Star Carr: past, present and future" - Dr Nicky Milner, York University

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
"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
"

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