Syllabus 2018

 

9 Jan              ‘Birth, Babies & Bedsteads: Womens lives in the North of England, 1500 – 1750’

                        by Sarah Fox.

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13 Feb           ‘King Richard III – The Bones & the DNA’   by David Glover.

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13 March     ‘The Treasurers House, York’  by Trevor Moody.

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10 April        ‘Rushes & Ale: A History of Rushbearing’  by Garry Stringfellow.

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8 May            ‘Rippondens World War Two Decoy Site: Operation Starfish’

                       by David Taylor.

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12 June         ‘A Trip down Memory Lane’  by Keith Barber.

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10 July           Quiz and Social Evening.

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14 Aug          ‘Patterns in the Landscape: the Evolution of Settlement and Enclosure in the Upper Calder Valley’  by                            Nigel Smith.

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11 Sept         ‘Vere Foster : What a Man’  by Margaret Barnes.

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26 Sept          Annual Dinner.

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9 Oct             ‘Local Law & Order’  by David Cliff.

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13 Nov          ‘Mills of the Ryburn Valley re-visited’  by Julian Carr.

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11 Dec           Annual General Meeting & slide show.

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