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Saturday 13th December at 2pm

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.

Saturday 8th November at 2pm on Zoom

This weeks talk is by Dr Marta Cobb, University of Leeds, and her subject is ‘
Margery Kempe in Yorkshire‘.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you  will need to contact Jo by the 7th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

Saturday 11th October at 2pm on Zoom

Our next meeting will be Julia Hewgill speaking on ‘Border reivers: from warfare, blood and violence to custom, laws and ballads’.  The speaker has sent in the following; 

The latter Middle Ages saw a transition from the Scottish Wars of Independence to intermittent cross border hostility and a sustained pattern of criminal activities that encompassed all levels of society on both sides of the border.  Laws were created to settle disputes and deal with cross-border crime that led to reliance on a warden system, a unique form of architecture, the mother of all curses and a selection of ballads that celebrate the violence and feuds of the resulting society.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you  will need to contact Jo by the 10th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

Saturday 13th June at 2pm on Zoom

Mary Garrison of York University will be speaking about Alcuin’s World through his letter and verse.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you  will need to contact Jo by the 12th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

2025 – 2026 Programme

13/09/2025  Mary Garrison  Alcuin’s World through his letters and verse

11/10/2025  Julie Hickey  tbc

08/11/2025  Marta Cobb  Margery Kemp in Yorkshire

13/12/2025  Graham Mitchell  Richard, the Northern King

10/01/2026  James Doherty  (The 1st Crusade)

14/02/2026  Chris Atkinson  (Charcoal burning)

14/03/2026  Jo Buckberry  (Black Death skeletons)

11/04/2026  Michaela Zoschg  The Wakefield Cross

09/05/2026  AGM and tba

Medieval Section Programme 2025-26

The new programme starts in September and up to Christmas, we have:

13/09/2025  Mary Garrison   Alcuin’s World through his Letters and Verse 

11/10/2025  Julia Hickey    Border reivers, Tudor period?

08/11/2025  Marta Cobb   Margery Kempe in Yorkshire

13/12/2025  Graham Mitchell    Richard, the Northern King

In January, we continue with lectures on charcoal burning research, black death skeletons and, hopefully, the 1st crusade.  We also have a meeting with a curator from the Victoria & Albert Museum on the Wakefield Cross, see below:The 12th-Century Ivory Carving (The Deposition from the Cross) 

What it is: A rare and valuable 12th-century ivory carving depicting Joseph of Arimathea lifting Christ’s body from the cross.

Discovery: Rediscovered in 1769, hidden in a house on Northgate, Wakefield, since the Reformation. 

Current Location/Significance: Recently made headlines when its owners sought to sell it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for £2 million, leading to a UK export ban and a national effort to raise the funds to keep it in Britain, with the Victoria and Albert Museum eventually acquiring it.

Message from the editor of Medieval Yorkshire

“Medieval Yorkshire is the journal of the Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society. We are always looking for new submissions to the journal. If you are interested in publishing, please contact the editor at <medyorks.editor@yahs.org.uk >. Similarly, if you hear an interesting lecture on the subject of Medieval Yorkshire and a related subject why don’t you suggest to the speaker to have this published in Medieval Yorkshire”

So if you see or hear anything that could be of interest to the rest of the Section, please feel free to let us know.

Saturday 7th June, 2025 at 2pm on Zoom

Tom Pickles will be talking about the early Christian churches and landscapes in Yorkshire.

This will be followed by the AGM

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you  will need to contact Jo by the 6th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

No meeting this month

Sorry but due to illness, we are having to cancel the next meeting.  Hopefully we may be able to rearrange next season.

The following meeting will on Saturday 7th June – having been moved to accommodate the YAHS AGM on 14th.  The speaker will be Tom Pickles on Early Christian Churches & Landscapes in Yorkshire (AD 400-1100). It will be followed by the AGM.