Programme for 2024-2025

Welcome back to the Section’s meetings for 2024-25.  Unfortunately, it is taking longer than I expected to find speakers for all our meetings through this year but we do have a programme up until February 2025.

The meetings will all be online except for the December meeting which will be held in Swarthmore Education Centre.

All meetings start at 14.00, although the meeting will be opened about 13.45.  They will all be using Zoom, but just to remind you – you do NOT need to have a zoom account to access the meeting.  You can do so using your normal browser.

12/10/2024WYAASA manorial site at Micklefield
09/11/2024Jo FerrisFirsby Hall DMV
14/12/2024Peter BrearsDining in the Hall
11/01/2025Julia HickeysBorder reivers, Tudor
08/02/2025Stephanie Wynne-JonesArchaeology of objects and trade

We look forward to ‘seeing’ you at the meetings.

Medieval Section meeting on Saturday 11th May, 2024 at 2pm on Zoom

This month the speaker will be Dr Jane Richardson talking about the excavations and post-excavation results from the recently-excavated site at Garforth.

This will be followed by the section AGM.

Members on the mailing list will already have the link so if you haven’t received the mail first check your junk mail box and if it isn’t there contact Jo.

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

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

Medieval Section meeting on Saturday 13th April, 2024 at 2pm on Zoom

The speaker for this month is Dr Ellie Rye from the English Language & Linguistics Department at York on
Place-names, language, and early medieval landscapes

Members on the mailing list will already have the link so if you haven’t received the mail first check your junk mail box and if it isn’t there contact Jo.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 8th.

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

Medieval Section meeting on Saturday 9th March 2024 at 2pm on Zoom

Kate Giles will be talking about ‘Medieval Wall paintings at Pickering Church’.

Members on the mailing list will already have the link so if you haven’t received the mail first check your junk mail box and if it isn’t there contact Jo.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 8th.

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

Medieval Section Meeting on Saturday 10th February at 2pm

Our speaker, John Jenkins, will be talking about the work done at York’s Guildhall.

Members on the mailing list will already have the link so if you haven’t received the mail first check your junk mail box and if it isn’t there contact Jo.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 9th.

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

Medieval Section Meeting on Saturday 9th December at 2pm

This Saturday we have Hanna Vorholt talking about Illuminated manuscripts,

This will be a hybrid meeting at Swarthmore if you want to attend in person. If you would like to bring along something consumable to share with other members, it would be welcome, and members can collect their copy of the 2022 Medieval Yorkshire at the same time.

To attend on Zoom mail Jo as usual.

Medieval Section Meeting on Saturday 11th November at 2pm

George Loffman, of York Archaeological Trust will be speaking on the recent excavations at Micklegate, York. 

Please see note below for future events.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Nov 11, 2023 14:00 London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdO6rqjkpGdFLrd6rnRvaN9Ugfp_Bxl8g

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For those of you who have had difficulty with zoom:

Join a Zoom meeting without downloading the app

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  2. Click the join link to join the meeting.
    On your web browser, a pop-up window will prompt you to open or download the application.
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The following meeting, in December, will be our Christmas event when we will hope to meet live at Swarthmore Education Centre.  As well as having a live meeting, we hope to be able to distribute your copy of Medieval Yorkshire.  The Section has been left a collection of volumes by the late John Dixon, and they are being offered for sale initially to Section members.  Jo will be circulating the list of volumes and suggested prices in the next few days, and they will be sold on a first come-first served basis.  You can book your preference with me as soon as possible.  All of the donated books and the Medieval Yorkshire copies will be available for collection at the December meeting.  To avoid the Christmas post, the remaining order, and MY’s will be sent out after Christmas.  Postage will be added to the cost of the Dixon volumes.

The remaining books from John Dixon will then be offered to YAHS members in the New Year, and to booksellers in February.