Category: Lectures

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

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.

Our speaker will be Stephanie Wynne-Jones and her topic is something completely different for us –

‘Trade, travel and religion on the medieval Swahili coast’

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also 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.

11/01/2025	Julia Hickeys	Border reivers, Tudor
08/02/2025	Stephanie Wynne-Jones	Archaeology of objects and trade
08/03/2025	Adam Cook	Identity In Yorkshire & Northumberland, 1066-1216
05/04/2025	Alex Harvey	Viking in Yorkshire
10/05/2025	Glyn Coppack	Bridlington Priory
07/06/2025	Tom Pickles	Early Christian churches & Landscaapes in Yorkshire (AD 400-1100)

Claire Burridge will be talking about ‘Books and bodies: Integrating historical and archaeological evidence to study medieval health and medicine’.

She will be talking to us from Oslo.

email Jo if you need the link.