Previous Seasons – Huddersfield Local History Society

Details of the current or upcoming season of talks can be found here.

Due to the ongoing social distancing restrictions, this season was delivered entirely online and individual talks are available to watch again.

28 Sep 2020 — ‘The town that bought itself’? New light on 1920 — Prof. Edward Royle
26 Oct 2020 — Peterloo: The Aftermath in West Yorkshire. Prelude to Insurrection August 1819-March 1820 — Alan Brooke
30 Nov 2020 — ‘Wools for the World’ in Railway Street — Dr. Barbara Smith
18 Dec 2020 — ‘People who talk Edgerton’? James R. Gregson and the Huddersfield Thespians — Dr. Christine Verguson
25 Jan 2021 — Highfields: ‘a most handsome’ suburb — David Griffiths
22 Feb 2021 — The Holme Valley in the Middle Ages — Peter Burton
29 Mar 2021 — Veteran’s Voices: Storthes Hall and the Long Shadow of Shell-Shock — Dr. Alice Brumby
26 Apr 2021 — Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture: Radicalism in the West Riding 1790 to 1890 — Prof. Edward Royle
24 May 2021 — Norcroft Pit Disaster, 1821 — David Hinchliffe

30 Sep 2019 — Huddersfield in 50 Buildings? Really? — Chris Marsden
28 Oct 2019 — Not Simply Children, Dogs and Tea Cups — Heather Norris Nicholson
25 Nov 2019 — Nights out in 1960s Yorkshire: Cabaret, Glamour and Casinos — Dave Russell
27 Jan 2020 — “The Boys of the Old Brigade” — John Rumsby
24 Feb 2020 — Your Kirklees Pinta? Changes in Local Dairy Farming 1850-2020 — Jo Stanley
30 Mar 2020 — “The Play Must Go On”: 100 Years of the Huddersfield Thespians — Huddersfield Thespians (postponed)
27 Apr 2020 — Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture — Prof Edward Royle (postponed)
18 May 2020 — Telling Their Stories: ‘Shell-Shocked’ Ex-Servicemen in Storthes Hall Mental Hospital, 1924-1931 — Alice Brumby (postponed)

24 September 2018 — The Standedge Tunnels — Trevor Ellis
29 October 2018 — Conchies On the Run – and the Matter of Ireland — Cyril Pearce
26 November 2018 — Nurses of Passchendaele — Christine Hallett
28 January 2019 — Holocaust Learning Centre — Emma King
25 February 2019 — Dispersal Bussing in Huddersfield during the 1960s and 1970s — Joe Hopkinson
25 March 2019 — You Always Remember Your Co-op Number — Stephen Caunce
29 April 2019 — Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture — Janette Martin
20 May 2019 — Mills of the Huddersfield Area: Their Rise and Fall — Alan Brooke

25 September 2017 – English Clergy on the Eve of Reformation – Dr Pat Cullum
30 October 2017 – Huddersfield’s Chemical Industry – Professor Mike Page
27 November 2017 – A Yorkshire Dialect Treasure Trove – Rod Dimbleby
29 January 2018 – Heraldry in 17th Century West Yorkshire Houses as a Sign of Status – Peter Thornborrow
26 February 2018 – Stanley Royd: West Riding Asylum – David Scrimgeour
26 March 2018 – Marsden Wills – Hazel Seidel
30 April 2018 – Luddite Memorial Lecture: Religion and Working Class Radicalism – Dr. Mike Sanders
21 May 2018 – West Yorkshire Archive Service – Teresa Nixon

26 September 2016 – The Great Yorkshire election of 1807 – Professor Edward Royle
31 October 2016 – AGM and Members’ Evening – members share current research and interests
28 November 2016 – Edgerton: Home to a Victorian Elite – David Griffiths
30 January 2017 – The Latest News from a Yorkshire Glossary – Dr George Redmonds
27 February 2017 – The History of the Afro-Caribbean Community in Huddersfield – Natalie Pinnock-Hamilton
27 March 2017 – Hinchliffes in the West Riding – David Hinchliffe
24 April 2017 – Introducing our C19th and 20th Century Jewish Neighbours – Dr Anne Brook
22 May 2017 – The Pevsner Project and the Buildings of Huddersfield – Joseph Sharples

28 September 2015 – Huddersfield Parish Church conservation – Stuart Beaumont & Ian Roberts
26 October 2015 – Miners and Mining in New Mill – Pamela Cooksey
30 November 2015 – World War II Immigrants in Huddersfield – Dr Janette Martin
25 January 2016 – Loss and Legacy: the Tolson Story – Jenny Salton
29 February 2016 – Bentley and Shaw, Brewers, Lockwood – Robert Tomlinson
21 March 2016 – The Woodsome Panels and Early Modern Marriage – Professor Jessica Malay
25 April 2015 – Huddersfield’s Chartist Roots – Alan Brooke
23 May 2016 – The Pilgrimage of Grace – Julia Hickey

29 September 2014 – Early Labour Pioneers in the Huddersfield Area – Professor Lord David Clark
27 October 2014 – Huddersfield’s Hinterland in 1812-13 Through the Wakefield Manorial Court Roll – Dr John A Hargreaves
24 November 2014 – Belgian Refugees in World War I – Dr Rebecca Gill
26 January 2015 – Thomas Heaton and the Coming of the New Policing in the Huddersfield District – Professor David Taylor
23 February 2015 – 16th and 17th Century Houses of the Huddersfield Area – David Cant
30 March 2015 – The Restoration of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal – Alan Stopher & Keith Gibson
27 April 2015 – J P W Mallalieu, Huddersfield MP – Professor Brendan Evans
18 May 2015 – Teazles and Teazlemen – Robert A McMillan