Booking is now open for our next short course, Yorkshire Battles, to be presented by Dr Robert Wright. It will be a hybrid course, with an in-person audience in Bedern Hall, York, and others joining us on zoom. The dates are: Wednesday evenings, 7.00-9.00pm on April 20th, April 27th, May 4th and May 11th. The cost […]
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Our next short course will be an online course, with those people who have joined PLACE recently or who live some distance from York in mind. It will be a four-week course presented by Robert Wright on ‘Holy Places of Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire’, and will take place on Friday afternoons in November. Further details will be […]
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Our autumn newsletter is now available to download by clicking on the link below. Don’t miss our autumn conference on Future Challenges in the Urban Environment, to be held in Leeds on 5th October. The short course by Robert Wright on Georgian York is bound to be popular, so early booking is advised. Please use […]
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Our last short course, Roman Yorkshire, was a great success. There will be an account of it in the next newsletter. It will be followed by a visit to Aldborough Roman Town on Saturday 21st July.
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We have arranged a free visit to the Danelaw Viking Village, Murton, to follow our recent short course by Robert Wright on Viking Yorkshire. It will take place from 7.00 to 9.00pm on Thursday 13th July. The staff at Murton will show us the reconstructed buildings and explain the re-enactments they present of life in […]
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Unfortunately, the short course session in the Viking Yorkshire series on June 8th has had to be cancelled, due to a double booking at the venue. An extra session will be added on the end of the course, on Thursday 6th July.
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Brian Walker will lead a 3-session short course on Forests of the past, present and future, on Wednesdays 8th, 15th and 22nd July. The course will offer a chance to learn about Britain’s woodland heritage and what the future might hold. Three different sites will be visited: semi-natural woodland and ancient trees in the Helmsley […]
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Our last short course, Yorkshire Battles, led by Dr Robert Wright, was a great success. We enjoyed blood-curdling tales of political struggles from before the Norman Conquest to the Civil War. The course was attended by over 60 people, many of whom visited the site of the Battle of Towton after the course. Here, the […]
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Our outing to Middleham Castle on Saturday 15th June was a fitting climax to the short course led by Robert Wright, ‘Six Yorkshire Castles’. PLACE members were guided round expertly by Robert, who explained the layout of the site and the uses of the various rooms. Most of us managed to get to the top […]
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As a follow-up to our latest short course, Six Yorkshire Castles, Robert Wright will be leading a visit to Middleham Castle on Saturday June 15th. Everyone who attended the course is welcome to come along – your course fee included the price of this visit. Anyone who only attended an odd session and anyone else […]
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