Yorkshire History Conference

The day will cover research on a wide range of periods, people and places across the county – from Richmond to Hull and from the Norman Conquest to the First World War.

Programme – join us to hear about the following topics.

• 1226-2026: New Light On The Cult Of St William Of York 800 Years AfterHis Canonization – Dr John Jenkins
• Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Halifax and Hull: Using the Registers of Deeds to evidence women’s capital investment in nineteenth-century Yorkshire – Dr Joan Heggie
• Domestic Service in Edwardian Harrogate – Dr Paul Jennings
• Brittany and Richmond: connections and comparisons, c. 1066-1399 – Prof Fiona Edmonds
• A Manchester Man Abroad: Richard Cobden and the West Riding of Yorkshire – Prof Simon Morgan
• After the Bombardment, the forgotten Battle of Scarborough 1914-15 – Dr David Pendleton

Full programme can be downloaded by clicking here.

The conference fee is £20, with some places reduced to £10 for full time students. To keep costs down we are not automatically including lunch, but it can be booked as an optional extra at £13.

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For details of alternative payment methods, and for any other queries please email office@yahs.org.uk