The Lost Kingdoms of Elmet

Presented by Dave Wheldrake.

The Kingdom of Elmet was one of many small principaltieis which sprang up after the Roman armies withdrew from Roman Britain. It covered the area which is now South and West Yorkshire and, before the collapse in the 600’s, it was a buffer between betwee nthe two great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. This talk looks at people and places in the past to shed light on an almost fogotten part of regional history.