New date added! Getting Started with Local History. This course is aimed at any local historian looking for inspiration and advice though it will especially appeal to those of you who have recently started or would like to start researching local history. buff.ly/3oDKnQu

Enjoyable afternoon giving a talk on using local history with family history at Hawes Countryside Museum. Thank you Hawes for looking so wonderful in the Yorkshire Dales sunshine threads.net/@juderhodes548

East Riding Archives in Beverley is closing for refurbishment at the end of August for up to year. Time to get any appointments booked!

Anyone researching Leeds ancestors - Find my Past have added baptism, marriage and burial Catholic records 1797-1913, could help to locate that elusive record

Largest-ever genetic family tree reconstructed for Neolithic people in France using ancient DNA | Live Sciencex livescience.com/archaeology/la…

Progressing your Local History. This course is for those looking for inspiration and advice though it will especially appeal to those who have already begun their research. The course develops your research skills and focusses pre-Industrial Revolution. buff.ly/3O1LEgG

The Leeds Library- wonderful and the Thoresby collection

super morning yesterday listening to two fascinating talks at the Thackray Medical Museum, first Dr Shirley Curtis-Summers on Using bio archaeology to reconstruct medieval life ways followed by the wonderful Prof Keith Manchester on Clinical interpretation in palaeopathology.

Loved the three new episodes of Time Team, six episodes about Modbury would still not have been enough and great to see Dr Sophie Kay working on the Stitson family

Fabulous talk this morning by the very informative Janice Heppenstall on 17C Leeds, a wonderful journey through the Lucas family.

Return to Radwinter, from the Domesday Book to 1985 theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

I’ve at last been able to tick something off my long list of things to do and complete, I have gained a certificate in Applied Public History. Now the next project…..

What a wonderful day celebrating The Life and Work of Arthur Raistrick at Grassington Town Hall by the Yorkshire Geological Society. A fabulous line up of talks celebrating the Yorkshire Dales and Dr Raistrick ⁦⁦Yorkshire Geological Society⁩

Busy evening in Grassington before the rain

What a super day of attending talks I have had. Lesley Collins Neil medical museum then Nick Barratt in Wakefield. Both fabulous speakers

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What an absolute treat for local historians, #abandoned railways from above; a new series on Channel Four. Beautifully presented and fabulous links to #local history

I will be fluttering off to where the sky is blue and leaving X in the next couple of weeks , hope to see you there