Conferences & Events
Exploring Yorkshire's Folk Heroes and Legends
'Fables..... When reason borrowed fancy's painted wings': Exploring Yorkshire's Folk Heroes and Legends.
Our spring conference 2010 was held on Saturday 27th March 2010 in King James' School, Knaresborough. Speakers presented entertaining and stimulating papers as follows:
Prof. Jim Sharpe - Dick Turpin
Prof. Barrie Dobson - Robin Hood
Dr Peter Hogarth - dragon legends
Dr Peter Addyman - Yorkshire's secret tunnel legends
James Hunt - Mother Shipton and Blind Jack
Dr James Gregory - folk heroes and legends: a 21st century perspective (presented by Peter Addyman in Dr Gregory's absence.
The conference included a most enjoyable visit to the Knaresborough Castle tunnel, complete with cave spiders! [Photograph above by Peter Addyman shows PLACE members descending into the tunnel entrance]
