This page lists all the events that we will plan to undertake. You can select any particular type of event by using the “Categories” pull-down list immediately below.
The 2025 AGM – details will be publicised early in the New Year
Joanne Aston will will talk about Ernest Shackleton’s aborted Antarctic crossing expedition of 1914, which is an inspiring story of leadership, courage and endurance in the face of adversity
Tony Burkitt will talk to us about Robert Adam, the great Georgian architect and designer, whose work and inspiration is still with us today
Karen Adams will return to talk about Clifford’s Tower in York – don’t say you’ve never climbed it!
Stuart Lines will talk about the rise and fall of the Bradford canal – how the canal system reached the city of Bradford and why it died.
The author Rosemary Cook will tell us about Dr Gramshaw, who was a successful family doctor in Yorkshire for thirty-five years, until his final desperate actions brought his professional and personal life crashing down around him
Steve Ward has has a PhD in the social and cultural history of the circus and has several books on the subject. He is bound to open our eyes to many little facts about circus life
Maybe not quite you expect. Malcolm Walker will visit us to take a satirical swipe at the second most senior prelate in the Church of England
Eric Jackson will return, this time to talk about the history of the English canals and their place at the centre of the Industrial Revolution