At our meeting on 3rd September, 2022, Wendy Jewitt’s talk will be “A Walk Through Wakefield”. Wendy is Library Officer: Information and Culture, Wakefield Council. She is well known Continue Reading →

Hybrid Zoom Meeting with David Scriven. If your ancestors lived in a village you will no doubt be interested in discovering all you can about the village, those who lived Continue Reading →

Hybrid Zoom Meeting with Andrea Hetherington. It is based on a murder committed in 1848.  She uses the murder to explain how the Victorian criminal justice system worked and Continue Reading →

Hybrid Zoom Meeting The John Goodchild Collection: An Update which will be presented by Stefanie Davidson from WYHC

Hybrid Zoom Meeting Lofthouse Pit Disaster’s 50th Anniversary Speakers: Tony Banks and Eddie Downes According to Eddie virtually everyone who lives in the area will have a miner somewhere in Continue Reading →

Hybrid Zoom Meeting Speaker Sheron Boyle

May 6 No meeting due to Coronation.

June 3 Hybrid Zoom Meeting doors open 9.30 Claudia Sternberg Germans in Yorkshire and their Family Stories

The subject is her Great Uncle Ton Henry Staynes 1865 – 1930. By all accounts he was a bit of a Black Sheep, a rebel who resented authority, particularly Continue Reading →