West Yorkshire Heritage Forum — We still need Feedback

Summer is upon us and the pollen count is rising!

However, I’m sure there will be many out and about engaged in a range of heritage activities.  The West Yorkshire Forum is here to let others know about what is going on.  Not only are there special one -off events but venues which we can publicise as the school holidays approach.

Please get in touch and we will post your information.

 

If you are reading this and can spare the time, we would be grateful if you could click on the comment button and just tell us about yourself and how you use the site.  We would also be most interested to know about ways in which we might expand the site to provide a better service to all those interested in Heritage projects in and around West Yorkshire.

Please give us a comment.

If you are associated with any heritage group or know of one that you think would be able to offer an interesting venue for one of our conferences, please get in touch via our contact tab at the top of this site.

If you want to know more about our conferences click on:  WYHF  Meetings Page

York Festival of Ideas

We have only just received notice of a fantastic series of mostly free talks in York starting TODAY!  13th June until 29th June

You can find out about the whole programme by clicking here

Co-operative History Exhibition at Leeds Museum

Co-operatives Fortnight is 22nd June to 6th July.

On the 22nd June there will be the opening of the Co-operative History Exhibition at Leeds Museum.

The exhibition will run until December.

Click here to see the poster

Norah’s Diaries — WWII History Blog

A fascinating new blog is recently being updated. The blog, written by Alison Twells from Sheffield Hallam University, explores the diaries written by her great aunt throughout her life, and particularly during the second world war. The blog presents an interesting insight into how projects can be formed around such resources and how personal documents can be documented for public consumption. For anybody interested in social history or for people who just love an intriguing story, please check out the blog at
http://norahsdiaries.wordpress.com/
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Yorkshire Archaeological Society — Pitt-Rivers and Yorkshire

YAS talk: Pitt-Rivers & Yorkshire

All welcome!

Saturday 22 June 2013, 2pm

Yorkshire Archaeological Society

Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9NZ

Staffordshire Saxon Hoard – Marton Cum Grafton Village Hall

Professor Joyce Hill, a leading authority on Anglo Saxon History will be giving a talk on Tuesday 23rd July 7.30 p.m. in the Marton Cum Grafton Village Hall.

This is the first of a series of talks to be arranged by the Marton Cum Grafton Village History Society.

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Full details about this lecture can be found by clicking here.

Medieval Fayre at Harewood House May Bank Holiday Weekend

Harewood has been exploring its medieval history over the recent years and this gave rise to our first Medieval Festival last year, The Medieval Faire.  It was so well received that we are now keen to make this an annual event so the second Medieval Faire will be running over the next bank holiday weekend, Sun 26th and Mon 27th May.  This will be launched by the Medieval Banquet on the evening of the Sat 25th May.

For more details click here

Spring Bank Holiday Events for Families in Wakefield

As usual Wakefield Museum has organised a number of fun events over the Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May.

Click here for further details