Conferences and events

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 will be held on Saturday 27th March 2010 in King James' School, Knaresborough. It will explore the folklore and traditions attached to people, landscape and the cultural environment in Yorkshire. Speakers will include:
Prof. Jim Sharpe - on Dick Turpin
Prof. Barrie Dobson - on Robin Hood
Dr Peter Hogarth - dragon legends
Dr Peter Addyman - folk stories of secret passages and tunnels
Dr James Gregory - folk heroes and legends: a 21st century perspective.

The cost of the conference will be £15.00 per head (£10.00 for retired/unwaged). This includes coffee and tea but not lunch. To reserve your place, please send a cheque, payable to 'PLACE', to:
Dr Margaret Atherden
PLACE Office
York St John University
Lord Mayor's Walk
York
YO31 7EX
E-mail: place@yorksj.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 766291.

Prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales

Our autumn conference 2009 was held in the Devonshire Institute (Town Hall) in Grassington on Saturday 31st October 2009. It was organised jointly with the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. 184 people attended the event. The theme was:
The Prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales.

Programme of talks:
  • Terry O'Connor: The changing environment of the Dales during the late- and post-glacial periods.
  • Roger Jacobi and tom Lord: The earliest humans in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
  • Tom Lord: The Early Neolithic skeletons from Elbolton Cave, Wharfedale: Europe's oldest mummies?
  • Tim Taylor: Caves in context: research agendas for the underground environment.
  • Tim Laurie: Coaxial field systems in Swaledale: a reassessment in the light of further fieldwork.
  • Roger Martlew: Upper Wharfedale in Late Prehistory: problems, prospects and progress.
  • Alan King and Mark Simpson: The Prehistoric and Romano-British field evidence on the Ingleborough massif: a new survey.
  • Robert White: The archaeology of the Yorkshire Dales: an overview.