Conferences & Events
The Changing Role of Yorkshire's Waterways
Our autumn conference 2010 will be held at the Waterways Museum in Goole. The theme will be:
The Changing Role of Yorkshire's Waterways. Speakers will include:
Judy Jones: Conservation and Recreation on the Waterways.
Bob Watson: The 'Sobriety' Project and the Port of Goole.
Robb Robinson: Far horizons: from the River Hull to the Ends of the Earth.
Michael Hopkinson: 'A desperate dangerous design': the rise and fall of Yorkshire's canal system.
There will be a guided tour of Goole docks by boat and a change to visit the Waterways Museum. The cost of the conference will be £25.00 (£20.00 for retired/unwaged), including tea/coffee and buffet lunch. Numbers are limited to 50 people.
To reserve your place, please send a cheque for the relevant amount (payable to PLACE) to:
Dr Margaret Atherden
PLACE Office
York St John University
Lord Mayor's Walk
York
YO31 7EX.
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]