Medieval History and Archaeology of Yorkshire
The next meeting will be held on Saturday 14th November, when Peter Connolly will be talking about Musings on Medieval Hull. We have not had Hull as a topic for a long time, so potentially Peter will have a lot of new information for us. The meeting will be online.
Section members will be sent the link. If you are not a member and would like to attend you will need to contact Jo.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
Our speaker will be Steve Tibble and his topic will the Crusader Criminals, something we have not looked at before so it should be really interesting.
Section members will be sent the link. If you are not a member and would like to attend you will need to contact Jo.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
| 12/09/2026 | Yannick Signer | Pots and Potters: New insights into the development of pottery production in medieval Yorkshire | Zoom |
| 10/10/2026 | Steve Tibble | Crusader Criminals | Zoom |
| 14/11/2026 | Peter Connolly | Musings on Medieval Hull | Zoom |
| 12/12/2026 | David Harpin | Medieval Finds | Hybrid |
| 09/01/2027 | John Lee | Medieval Cloth Making in Yorkshire | Zoom |
| 13/02/2027 | Ellen Gallimore | The Synod of Whitby in the Nineteenth Century | Zoom |
| 13/03/2027 | Jo Buckberry | Battlefield dead | Zoom |
| 10/04/2027 | Jon Kenny | Recent research in Yorkshire | Zoom |
| 08/05/2027 | Nick Barratt | TBC | Zoom |
| 12/06/2027 | AGM & David Johnson | Work done at Gauber pastures. | Zoom |
(titles may change nearer the date)
Our proposed speaker for the meeting tomorrow has had to withdraw, so the meeting will be our AGM alone. We hope that you will still consider coming along to the meeting – we do need to have your input to the working of the Section.
Section members have all been notified by email so please check for the link. If you haven’t received the mail please contact Jo.
Our speaker will be James Lyall, whose speciality is geophysical prospection, so an entirely different aspect of archaeological research. His topic is ‘
New Leys Medieval grange – an unexpected discovery’.
Section members will be sent the link. If you are not a member and would like to attend you will need to contact Jo.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
Michaela Zoschg from the Victoria and Albert Museum, will be giving the latest update on the research into a section of a medieval cross found in a house in Northgate, Wakefield.
Section members will be sent the link. If you are not a member and would like to attend you will need to contact Jo.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
This week we have Dr Jo Buckberry of Bradford University talking about Beyond the Battlefield: Osteological evidence for medieval warfare. This a fairly new topic for us, so I hope you will join us to hear about the latest scientific evidence.
Section members will be sent the link. If you are not a member and would like to attend you will need to contact Jo.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
Saturday 13th February, 2026 at 2pm on Zoom
Chris Atkinson will be talking about Charcoal burning in West and South Yorkshire. We will hear about how to identify charcoal burning hearths, and where they have been found in the area.
Section members will be sent the link. If you are not a member and would like to attend then you will need to contact Jo.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
Happy New Year 🙂
Our next meeting will be online on 10th January and will be led by one of our members – David Harpin – who will be talking about Heraldry in Coins, based on his very interesting collection, some of which has been published by the Section.
Section members will be sent the link. If you are not a member and would like to attend then you will need to contact Jo by the 9th.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
The next meeting is on 13th December. This will be our Christmas meeting and fuddle, so you are welcome to bring along a small donation to the food/drink after the presentation.
The speaker will be Graham Mitchell of the Richard III Society, on Richard, the Northern King.
The meeting will be held in the St. George’s Centre, Great George Street, Leeds. Free parking is usually available on the other side of the Inner Ring Road behind the Joseph’s Well complex. If approaching from Burley Rd, take first right – Duncombe St, parking is on the left.
Hopefully it will also be on Zoom so contact Jo for the link if you haven’t already receive it.
