Meetings and speakers planned – September 2025 to April 2026
Note: For reports on previous talks please click BLOG and then the Talks category.
LIst of Speakers 2025/26
| 17th September | Bob & Jackie Lawrence | Women at War - The Barnbow Story |
| 24th September | Alan Kershaw | The Work of the Mercy Ships |
| 1st October | Peter Spedding | John Marshall Leeds Flax Magnate - How he shaped Leeds and connection to Lakes |
| 8th October | Philip Ashe | HMS Hood and the nature of human folly - if it looks like a duck….... |
| 15th October | Mike Turpin | Capability Brown, his life and his time at Temple Newsam |
| 22nd October | Sarah Greenalgh | The Dogs Trust |
| 29th October | John Lyte | Funny You Should Say That Part 2 |
| 5th November | Lesley Newnham | Boston Spa from a Hamlet to Georgian Spa |
| 12th November | Malcolm Brooke | Yorkshire's Vanishing Coastline |
| 19th November | Stuart Lines | What a way to Run A Railway |
| 26th November | Graham Read | The Life Story of Ayrton Senna da Silva |
| 3rd December | Jeff Jacklin | My Life in The NHS - It Only Hurts When I Laugh |
| 10th December | Alan Pugh | Living & Dying in a Victorian City - Beckett Street Cemetery |
| 17th December | Xmas Lunch | The Engine Shed |
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| 7th January | Brian Joyce | The Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
| 14th January | John Butterwick | 10 Ways to Improve your Enjoyment of Wine |
| 21st January | Brian Hull | Lord Armstrong, Victorian Industrialist par excellence and Cragside |
| 28th January | Andy Fox | Safeguarding yourself from fraud |
| 4th February | Gillian Waters | Northern Castle Builders |
| 11th February | Dave Moylan | Funny Turns |
| 18th February | Malcolm Johnson | Hull 1968 - Winter of Woe - The triple trawler disaster. |
| 25th February | Susan Deal | Victorian Scandals |
| 4th March | Geoff Queen | Park Drive - Americas National Parks |
| 11th March | Paul Blakey MBE | Street Angels |
| 18th March | Brian Thomas | Ralph Vaughan Williams the Man and his Music |
| 25th March | Denise Adlard | Bedpans and False Teeth |
| 1st April | Peter Palmer | The Battle of Marston Moor |
| 8th April | AGM |