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

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