Medieval History and Archaeology of Yorkshire
The next meeting of the Section will be held on 12th February. Our speaker will be Marta Cobb, and her topic will be Medieval Fairy tales.
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 12, 2022 14:00 Greenwich Mean Time
Register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Happy New Year to you all 🙂
For the first meeting of 2022 our speaker will be Alan Murray on the The Origins and Uses of Medieval Heraldry.
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Our final meeting of 2021 is Danica Summerlin on Papal ritual & celebration in the Central Middle Ages.
This would normally also be our Christmas party so do bring along a drink of your choice 🙂
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If you can’t make it then we hope you will have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This time, we have Stuart Wrathmell speaking on Vikings settlements in eastern and northern Yorkshire. This will follow on nicely from the Lost Villages Found conference last Saturday.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
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An online conference to be held on Saturday 23rd October.
Details of the conference itself can be found on the YAHS website at:https://www.yas.org.uk/Meetings/Lost-Villages-Found-23-Oct-2021, tickets are still available for the next week, so if you would like to catch up on the latest research on DMV’s, please register as soon as possible.
Our speaker will be Matthew Townend, of York University, who will be talking to us about ‘Folk-Speech: the Victorians and Yorkshire Dialect’. This a change of topic for us and I hope you will enjoy a different aspect of language.
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This is to let you know of the booked speakers for 2021-22 season, so you can put the dates in your diary. At the moment, we are hoping to have at least some of the meetings in person, starting at 14.00, but will be able to let you know the venue and whether they will be online or in person nearer the time.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sep 11th | Eric Houlder | Excavating at Sutton Hoo |
| Oct 9th | Matthew Townend | A Dialect topic |
| Nov 13th | Stuart Wrathmell | Viking settlements in eastern Yorkshire |
| Dec 11th | Danica Summerlin | Papal ritual & celebration in the Central Middle Ages |
| Jan 8th | Alan Murray | The Origins and Uses of Medieval Heraldry |
| Feb 12th | Marta Cobb | Medieval Fairy Tales |
| Mar 12th | Iain Dyson | Yorkshire and the Crusades |
| Apr 9th | Matt Oakey | Aerial photography |
| May 14th | Katherine Cross | A History of Viking Yorkshire in 5 objects. |
| Jun 11th | Iona McCleery | Medieval food & drinking Now postponed till autumn |
This year we are having an extra talk on June 12th. The speaker will be Tony Hunt, Seeing the light fantastic: experiments is multispectral imaging in archaeology.  His talk will be about working with drones to explore sites and areas of interest.
Jo will provide login information nearer the date.
The speaker will be Dr Kate Giles on The Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Horselads of East Yorkshire.
This will be followed by the Sections AGM.
The meeting will be held online and you will need to register for it. Members on the mailing list will already have the registration details 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 7th.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
The speaker will be Helen Caffrey who will be presenting a talk on “Almshouses: medieval inspiration, enduring provision”.
The meeting will be held online and you will need to register for it. Members on the mailing list will already have the registration details 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 12th.
The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com
The following meeting, in May, will be followed by the AGM. Minutes from the previous AGM, and the Agenda for the meeting will follow in the next week or so, so please look out for it.
Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society 