New Research into the History of Yorkshire

Drawing based on a English manuscript illustration of ca.1400, touching upon aspects of the economic system. In the foreground a packhorse, loaded with merchandize, is driven towards an inn (with welcoming hostess); a network of inns across the country was important for commerce. The building at lower right, with hanging sign indicating it some kind of commercial or industrial establishment, may represent a craft workshop that produced some of the goods being transported by the horse. At rear right, the artist has depicted a walled town, location of major marketplaces for goods, while at left stands a castle or fortifed manor-house – residence of aristocracy who were consumers of luxury goods imported by merchants. The packhorse reflects the role of land-based transportation in the economy, while the ships and boats represent the importance of water transportation.

Conference sponsored by BALH and the University of Hull on Saturday 7th November 2009 at The Royal Hotel, Hull. Click here for more information>>>

The Hull and East Riding Branch will have a Historical Association stall. If any other H.A. branch in the region would like to have their information or publications  displayed or sold on the stall, and can arrange or pay for the delivery and return of items, please contact Sylvia Usher on usher@usher.karoo.co.uk by 3rd November.

To book a place at the conference contact mail@balh.co.uk. Registration fee is £15 per person.

9:30 - 10:00
Dr Philippa Hoskin, ‘Using the records of the Medieval Church Courts of York'

10:00 - 11:30
Dr Emma Watson, ‘Clergy, Laity and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Sixteenth Century Yorkshire Parishes'
Dr Simon Sandall, ‘Matrimony, slander and women's agency in early eighteenth-century Yorkshire
Alexander Lock, Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745-1810): Catholicism, apostasy and county politics
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Keith E Dredge, The strike the bosses started? Keighley engineers dispute 1914.
Lynne Fox, Women workers in south Yorkshire industry 1900 - 2000
Kevin Stephenson, The development of Hull's post-war housing estates: the politics of indecision

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee

12:00 - 1:00 Plenary Lecture: Professor Richard Hoyle, University of Reading
'Local history at the beginning of the twenty-first century: motives, problems, new possibilities'.

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30
Dr Helen Frisby, Reclaiming the ‘folk': death and dying in Yorkshire, c.1840-1914.
Margaret Oliver. The nature and incidence of illegitimacy in East Yorkshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Kate Taylor  The role and status of women in the diocese of Wakefield 1888-1938
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Dennis O'Keefe Players, Parsons and Patrons: Church and Cricket in Calderdale, 1860-c.1920.
Stephen Etheridge, Working -class brass bands in Yorkshire, 1856 -1914: perceptions of respectability, perceptions of control?
Penelope Harris Joseph Aloysius Hansom: a nomadic Yorkshire architect

3-30 - 4:00 Tea

4:00 - 5:30
Christine Handley A South Yorkshire case study: the tanning industry in Woodhouse, Sheffield
Colin Wilmshurst, Lockton & Levisham heritage group
John S Shaw. Soothill Nether 1840 to 1900, a community undergoing industrialisation
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Alison James, Popular or private rebellion? - the case of Robin of Redesdale
Dr Louise R Wheatley, York mercers - shopkeepers, stock and consumer demand
Dr John S. Lee, Temple Hirst: from the Knights Templar to Lord Thomas Darcy