All Future Events

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.

Apr
9
Wed
Meeting: “Shackleton’s Expedition to the Antarctic, 1914” (2nd Wednesday, not 1st) @ Oatlands Club
Apr 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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

Apr
23
Wed
Meeting: “Robert Adam – Architect to the Nobility” (4th Wednesday, not 3rd) @ Oatlands Club
Apr 23 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Tony Burkitt will talk to us about Robert Adam, the great Georgian architect and designer, whose work and inspiration is still with us today

Apr
30
Wed
Monthly Walk: Route TBC @ TBC
Apr 30 all-day
May
7
Wed
Meeting: “Clifford’s Tower” @ Oatlands Club
May 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Karen Adams will return to talk about Clifford’s Tower in York – don’t say you’ve never climbed it!

May
21
Wed
Meeting: “The Bradford Canal” @ Oatlands Club
May 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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.

May
28
Wed
Monthly Walk: Route TBC @ TBC
May 28 all-day
Jun
4
Wed
Meeting: “The Crimes of Dr Gramshaw” @ Oatlands Club
Jun 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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

Jun
18
Wed
Meeting: “The History of the Circus” @ Oatlands Club
Jun 18 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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

Jun
25
Wed
Monthly Walk: Route TBC @ TBC
Jun 25 all-day
Jul
2
Wed
Meeting: “The Archbishops of York” @ Oatlands Club
Jul 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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