York and North Yorkshire Branch Programme

Statue of the roman emperor Constantine I, erected in 1998 at York Minster.

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION York and North Yorkshire Branch PROGRAMME 2008 - 2009

2008  

Saturday, 27 September. Visit to the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre and St Peter's Church, Barton on Humber. Meet at the Humber Bridge Car Park, Hessle, at 9.45 am. (Joint meeting with Hull and E.R. Branch)

Tuesday 11 November at 8.00 pm, in Lecture Room P/L001, University of York, Heslington Campus Dr John Walker (University of Hull) Myths surrounding the survival of the Templars after 1312.

Friday 5 December at 8.00 pm in the Library, Queen Margaret's School, Escrick Professor Richard Bessell (University of York), The End of Nazi Germany's War

2009

Thursday 22 January at 7.00 pm in the Lecture Theatre or School Hall, Bootham School (The car park entrance is from Portland Street, off Gillygate) Dr David Sturdy (Queen's University, Belfast),  The Origins of the French Revolution

Wednesday 4 February at 7.00 pm in Lecture Theatre 1F051, York College, Sim Balk Lane, York Professor A. J. Pollard (University of Teesside) Warwick the King Maker

Wednesday 11 March at 7.00 pm in Room 7, The Mount School, Dalton Terrace, York (Car park entrance from Driffield Terrace) Dr David Powell (University of York St John),  The Liberals and the Rise of Labour, 1886-1918

Tuesday 17 March at 7.30 pm in the Tempest Anderson Hall, Museum Gardens, York Dr Suzanne Paylor (Birkbeck College) The Poor Man's Darwin (in a series of Yorkshire Philosophical Society lectures to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species)

Sunday 7 June - Summer Visit to Howsham Mill This gothick water mill on the river Derwent, designed by John Carr, featured in an early series of the BBC ‘Restoration' programme. Booking forms will be sent out in April.

Thursday 18 June at 7.00 pm in the Lecture Theatre, Bootham School (The car park entrance is from Portland Street, off Gillygate). Annual General Meeting. Papers will be sent out in April. To be followed by an illustrated lecture from Professor Edward Royle (University of York) on James Pigott Pritchett, architect of Victorian York.

For further details please contact: Professor E Royle, 77 Heworth Green, York YO31 7TL Tel: 01904 423009
Contact Email: royle77@talktalk.net