Lecture Archive

2024-25 season

• 11th June, 2025 : AGM &  York’s Tramways – John Shaw & Nick Beilby

• 14th May, 2025 : A New Look at the Roman Legionary Baths in York – Kurt Hunter-Mann

• 9th April, 2025 : The architectural development of The Retreat up to 1860 – Dr Victoria Hopgood

• 12th March, 2025 : Petuaria – Peter Halkon

• 12th February, 2025 : Annabel Dott, Architect – Dorothy Reed

• 20h November, 2024 : Friargate Community Archaeology Project – Andrew Jones

• 16th October, 2024 : The Ouse Waterfront in York – York’s 2000 year story – Ian Tempest ​

2023-24 season

• 12th June, 2024 : AGM &  Introduction to Hugh and Jill Murray’s collection of historic York images. – John Shaw

• 8th May, 2024 : Commemorative Stained Glass: inspirations and insights – Helen Whittaker

• 10th April, 2024 : Preservation of York’s Parish Churches – Jonathan French

• 13th March, 2024 : Combs, Cobblers, Chicory – work in 1840’s York – Ian Tempest

• 14th February, 2024 : The story of the scoria brick in York’s back alleys: a Victorian recycling success -Susan Major

• 10th January, 2024 : 1954 Twelfth Night Quiz – echoes of Florence E Wright – Anna Cook

• 8th November, 2023 : Hugh Murray’s Photographs and Photographers – John Shaw

• 11th October, 2023 : York’s World Heritage Bid: update and background information – John Oxley

2022-23 season

• 14th June, 2023 : AGM & The Life and Times of Harkers Hotel, St Helen’s Square – Ian Tempest

• 10th May, 2023 : Excavations on the York South Motive Power Depot site.

• 12th April, 2023 : York’s Preservation Tradition, Part 2 – 20th Century

• 8th March, 2023 : Archaeology on Prescription – Willow House, Walmgate

• 8th February, 2023 : Interpreting the Ryedale Hoard

• 11th January, 2023 : The Streetlife Project, community engagement and the history of Coney Street

• 9th November, 2022 : Watching for Armageddon – the Royal Observer Corps in Yorkshire and their bunker

• 12th October, 2022 : Book launch – The Making of Roman York – See ‘publications’ for more details

[All recordings for 22/23 season available on our YouTube channel]

2021-22 season

• 15th June, 2022 : AGM & “HerStory – Celebrating Women in York’s History” – Kate Hignett & Jocelyn Hayes

• 11th May, 2022 : York’s Visitor Attractions – the visitors’ views – Ian Tempest

• 13th April, 2022 : York’s Preservation Tradition – Dr Jonathan French

• 9th March, 2022 : The Organ Builders of York – Dr Max Elliot

• 9th February, 2022 : York’s Historic Environment Record, an introduction – Claire MacRae

• 12th January, 2022 : The Acomb Assemblage: fragments of an early Anglo-Saxon high-status burial – Dr Tania Dickinson

• 10th Novenber, 2022 : Raids over York – John Shaw and Nick Bielby

• 13th October, 2022 : Nunnery Lane and Clementhorpe: exploring old shops and pubs in York – Dr Susan Major

2020-21 season

​ NOTE: remainder of 2020 was without lectures due to Covid-19

• 17th February 2021 : A trip round York’s Walls – Ivan Martin ​

• 24th March 2021 : A history of York’s hotels – Ian Tempest ​

• 7th April 2021 : Archaeological Discoveries by Remote Sensing – Tony Hunt

• 28th April 2021 : The Hanstock Photography Business – Ian Drake

• 26th May 2021 : Talk on the East Window of Holy Trinity Goodramgate – Robert Andrews

2019-20 season

• 10th February 2020 : The Red Tower and Foss islands – Ian Tempest

• 13th November 2019 : The 1951 Revival of York’s Mystery Plays – Margaret Scott

• 23rd October 2019 : York Minster in close up – the exterior – Catherine Sotheran

2018-19 season

• 19th June 2019 : AGM & Aerial archaeological mapping in Yorkshire – Tony Hunt

• 15th May 2019 : Landscapes of Opportunity?  Archaeology and the City of York Local Plan – John Oxley

• 17th April 2019 : The Work of York Conservation Trust – Guy Bowyer

• 20th March 2019 : York Home for Nurses 1870 – 1920 – Rosemary Cook

• 20th February 2019 : St. Martin’s Church, Coney Street – Andrew Hingston

• 16th January 2019 : York Civic Trust: Changing the Face of the City – David Fraser and Nick Beilby

• 14th November 2018 : Clifford’s Tower – Louise Wheatley

• 17th October 2018 : Constantine the Great and the Wold Newton Hoard – Andrew Wood

2017-18 season

• 20th June 2018 : AGM & The Bedern fire, 1876 – John Shaw

• 16th May 2018 : Excavations on the site of St. Leonard’s Hospital – Kurt Hunter-Mann

• 18th April 2018 : Understanding and future-proofing historic buildings – Sally Walker

• 21st March 2018 : Roman silver mining in the north Pennines – Al Oswald

• 21st February 2018 : Heritage building and conservation: a perspective – Charles Anelay

• 17th January 2018 : The Kiplin Hall Estate  –  Emma Wells

• 15th November 2017 : York Cemetery: Complete records of Burials from 1837 as an information source – David Poole

• 18th October 2017 : The Wood family and the River Ouse – John Shaw

• 30th September 2017 : 175th YAYAS Anniversary Lecture – Dr. Peter Hogarth

2016-17 season

• 14th June 2017 : AGM, followed by : The British Newspaper Archive – John Shaw & Recent acquisitions to the YAYAS collection – Sandra Garside-Neville

• 17th May 2017 : Beneath the Stage: Excavations at the Theatre Royal – Ben Reeves

• 19th April 2017 : Coin use in Roman Britain: how did the Romans regard their money? – Barry Crump

• 15th March 2017 : The Archaeology of Excrement: the passed and the present – Andrew ‘Bone’ Jones

• 15th February 2017 : The Rowntree Society over 15 Years: What we’ve done, what we do and what we will do – Dr Bridget Morris

• 18th January 2017 : York and Peterloo: Radical Landscapes, Radical Heritage – Caitlin Kitchener

• 19th November 2016 : “Home Comforts” : A talk and exhibition about the work of the Great War Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals in the North Riding. – Anne Wall and Eileen Brereton

• 19th October 2016 : Creating the medieval northern landscape: churches and commemoration in Anglo-Norman Yorkshire – Dr Aleksandra McClain