The Mourning Brooch: Moving on
Speaker: Jean Renwick When Elizabeth Addy died in 1849, her grieving husband commemorated her life with a mourning brooch. In The Mourning Brooch Book One An ending. A beginning we learnt how her two young daughters grew up in Yorkshire and married. In The Mourning Brooch Book Two Moving on, this much-loved saga continues and … Read More
Besoms, Battledores, Bedsteads and Bum Rolls: the role of women in the seventeenth century
Speaker: Janet Few Delivered in period costume describing cooking, cleaning, the making and laundering of clothes, maintaining the garden and the many other tasks of the Stuart housewife. Our Stuart female ancestors may be people we can identify, or they may be lurking, nameless, waiting to be discovered. In either case they existed, therefore we … Read More
People and Place Names of Craven
Speaker: Gillian Waters Were we invaded by thousands of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans – or does the place name evidence in the ancient kingdom of Craven tell a different story? Gillian Waters gives an overview of the changing nature of place names and what they tell us about the peoples who lived in … Read More