History Groups Portal https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Full directory Sheldon Memorial Lecture on Community, Culture and Nature. Room BS/005, the Bowland Auditorium, Campus West, University of York. Blossom Street: the Royal Entrance to York Toppings Booksellers The changing story of the Odeon site in Blossom Street, York Membership York and District Events York and District Groups York and District Directory Home YAYAS: November lecture, York County Gaol YAYAS: October lecture, The Refuse Destructor Chimney on Foss Islands Road – more than a landmark YAYAS Excursion to Hovingham Hall & Malton IHS Section AGM and Members’ Contributions Are You Sitting Comfortably? A Journey through Moquette – IHS Lecture John Smeaton, his Family and Friends – IHS Lecture Engineering the Shipley-Guiseley Railway in 1876 – IHS Lecture Ploughshares to Swords – the Royal Ordnance ShellFilling Factory at Thorp Arch – IHS Lecture The Otley Printing Industry – IHS Lecture Low Moor: its Ironworks, Explosion and Railways. – IHS Lecture St George’s Centre, Leeds York’s Inner Ring Road: a nightmare dodged or a dream lost? Contact Tell us about a group or society History Groups Portal at the CBA Yorkshire Symposium York Family History Society joins the portal York and District News YAYAS: April lecture: Charles Wellbeloved – Dr Jonathan French YFHS: ‘Researching your World War Two Ancestors’ by David Rigby YFHS: ‘My Milling Ancestors’ by Stephen Barrett YFHS: ‘The history of York Waterworks’ by Graham Wilford YFHS: AGM followed by The Woman in White update with Alan Powell An evening of local York Micklegate and Bishophill in close-up: a talk by Catherine Sotheran at Clements Hall YFHS: On site at York Explore YFHS: On site at Borthwick Institute for Archives Borthwick Institute for Archives York Explore Library and Archive YFHS: Family History Myths and Lies by Gillian Waters Quaker Friends Meeting House, White Rose Avenue, New Earswick, YORK YO32 4AD Clements Hall joins the Portal Dr Cross & Dr Vohra – ‘Vikings and Christians in York and Ryedale’ Norwegian Study Centre Matthew Townend – ‘How Local Battles of 1066 were told in Norse Poetry’ Cristina Figueredo – ‘The Bayeux Tapestry – “The Tragedy of the English”‘ John Cossins & Andy Robertson – ‘Clocks looked after by the York Clocks Group and some interesting clocks on our patch’ Festival of Ideas half-day event – ‘Remembering 1066 and Celebrating the Bayeux Tapestry Coming to Britain’ Jon Kenny – ‘The Search for Skipwith Moated Manor’ News