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

2022/23 Season

• 26 Sep 2022 — A New Life in Huddersfield: a film presentation — Mandeep Samra
• 31 Oct 2022 — Remains of the Flood: The bursting of the Bilberry Dam 1852 — John Rumsby
• 28 Nov 2022 — The Irish in Huddersfield — John Lambe
• 30 Jan 2023 — After Enoch’s Hammer: the Taylors of Marsden and their Iron Foundry — Stephen Challenger (OA4/01)
• 27 Feb 2023 — Riders on the Silent Steed: Cycling’s popularity in 1890s Huddersfield — Richard Hobson (OA4/01)
• 27 Mar 2023 — A Yorkshire Year: Folklore, Customs, and Traditions — Catherine Warr (OA4/02)
• 24 Apr 2023 — Annual Luddite Lecture — Both sides of the barricade: soldiers & ex-servicemen in early-nineteenth-century popular politics — Nick Mansfield (OA4/02)
• 22 May 2023 — The Curate and the King’s Coin — John Cross (room number TBC)

2021/22 Season

• 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
• 28 Feb 2022 — The “Memories of our Square” Project — Christine Verguson & and Beverley Norris
• 28 Mar 2022 — Marsden Mechanics’ Men – The Movers and Shakers of 19th Century Marsden — Steve Challenger
• 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
• 27 Jun 2022 – Walking Round Wooldale: Glimpses into the History of a Holme Valley Village — Pam Cooksey & Judith Barden

2020/21 Season

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

2019/20 Season

• 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)

2018/19 Season

• 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

2017/18 Season

• 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

2016/17 Season

• 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

2015/16 Season

• 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

2014/15 Season

• 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