Previous Seasons – Huddersfield Local History Society

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

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
27 Apr 2020 — Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture — Prof Edward Royle
18 May 2020 — Telling Their Stories: ‘Shell-Shocked’ Ex-Servicemen in Storthes Hall Mental Hospital, 1924-1931 — Alice Brumby

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