We’re delighted to announce that booking for the Ridings of Yorkshire Society conference on the 17th and 18th of June is now open, both to attend in-person and online. Both of these options are free of charge. In-person spaces are limited, so it’s worth getting in early if you’re hoping to join us at Blaydes House on the day. You can find the booking link here, or on the ROYS website at www.ridingsofyorkshire.blogspot.com.
The provisional programme is as follows, and timings will follow from ROYS at a later date:
Friday 17th June:
Welcome
Panel 1- Medieval Yorkshire:
Berenice Wilson: Emma de Port, the Percy’s, and St Julian the Harbinger
Sophie Whittle: Yorkshire as an innovator of language change: The extent of Scandinavian influence in late medieval Yorkshire texts
Key Note speaker – Leeds Museums and Galleries Community Engagement Team
Lunch
Key Note Speaker – Peter Halkon
Panel 2- Yorkshire in 20th Century
Dr Michael Reeve : ‘Specials’ and ‘night patrols’: Voluntary policing, public safety and working-class community in Hull during the First World War
Aleks Fagelman: We’re Here, We’re Queer and we won’t be forgotten: A discussion of reparations for the AIDS crisis, focused on the West Yorkshire Queer Stories archive
Paper 3 TBC
Panel 3- Yorkshire and the Archives
Dr Stefan Ramsden: The Merchant Marine at War: A Yorkshire Miner’s Perspective
Kevin Jones: Data on the Public Record: Mapping and Visualising Accessions to Repositories Information from Yorkshire Archives c.2007 – 2020
Sam Wright: The Humber Outport using the Lloyds Register Foundation Heritage and Education Centre Archives
Saturday 18th June:
Panel 4- Yorkshire in 18th & 19th Century
Aruni Samarakoon: Reading Mary Wollstonecraft through a lens of Socialist Feminist
Wayne Garlick: East Yorkshire Agriculture & Transport 1815-1850
Dr Joan K. F. Heggie, Women as capital lenders in nineteenth-century Yorkshire: Evidence from the Register of Deeds
Panel 5 – Yorkshire in 20th Century – Part 2!
Dr Ashley Borrett: Crime and Criminality in Hull and East Yorkshire during the interwar period
Joshua Daniels: The Blitz in Yorkshire: Once Forgotten, Now Remembered
Paper 3 TBC
Paper 4 TBC
Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City – Guided Tour lead by Sam Wright (Only available for in-person attendees)