This Month’s Talk

Servants of Edgerton: Discovering the women who served the Huddersfield elite by Beverley Norris.

2021/22 Season

Because of the continuing uncertainty as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our talks programme (with the exception of the initial lecture) will take place online until the end of 2021.

• 13 Sep 2021 — A ‘great’ amongst Victorian architects? Huddersfield’s W. H. Crossland — Sheila Binns
  held jointly with Huddersfield Civic Society, pre-booking is required
• 27 Sep 2021 — Servants of Edgerton: Discovering the women who served the Huddersfield elite — Beverley Norris
• 25 Oct 2021 — The History of the Colne Valley Landscape — Rob Vincent
• 29 Nov 2021 — “Fired with Love Unfeigned”: Discovering the Life and Labours of the Reverend Henry Venn, Vicar of St Peter’s Parish Church, Huddersfield 1759-1771 — Lewis Allen
• 31 Jan 2022 — The Holmfirth Flood 1852 — speaker to be confirmed
• 28 Feb 2022 — The Irish in Huddersfield — John Lambe
• 28 Mar 2022 — Financing Huddersfield’s industrialisation: Learning from the banking crash of 1826 — Stephen Caunce
• 25 Apr 2022 — “Rise Now from Your Slumber”: Peterloo, Song and Protest (Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture) — Alison Morgan
• 30 May 2022 — Celebrating 100 Years of the Tolson Memorial Museum, the museum of Huddersfield — Ann Denham

To look back at previous seasons, click here.