Meetings Programme 2007-2008
Lecture Meetings are held in Room 1, 2nd floor, Bradford Central Library. Visitors are always welcome at the lectures. (There is a small charge to visitors of £1.50 per meeting, to cover costs.)
A printable version of the current programme of lecture meetings is also available.
| 12 September 2007 7:15pm |
Whatever happened to the model village in the 20th century? George Sheeran |
| 11 October 2007 7:15pm |
Presidential Address: Knowing Bradford vicariously - 20 years of publishing Bradford history Bob Duckett For some 20 years as Brdford's Reference Librarian, Bob Duckett was responsible for the library's publishing programme. In the course of some 30 titles, Bob learnt a thing or two and met some singular authors! The Annual General Meeting will precede the talk. |
| 14 November 2007 10:30am |
Under the attic floor Ken Kenzie Our speaker, a stalwart of the Bradford Family History Society and the Memory Bank, has quite a story to tell! |
| 12 December 2007 10:30am |
The Brontës' Haworth Stephen Whitehead The place and the people the Brontës knew. |
| 9 January 2008 10:30am |
The land of the silver fern John Haigh A tourist's observations on the history of New Zealand, with or two Yorkshire connections. |
| 13 February 2008 10:30am |
The Bradford strike of 1825 Bob Pickles A brief account of the Woolcombers' and Weavers' strike. |
| 12 March 2008 10:30am |
Aspects of Wibsey Stella Carpenter As another of the villages which help to form today's Bradford, Wibsey has a history stretching back to the Domesday Book. |
| 9 April 2008 7:15pm |
Perseverance rewarded Stephen Chaunce The history of the Yorkshire Post. |
| 14 May 2008 7:15pm |
James Murgatroyd's Halifax houses Diana Priestley The early houses of the builder of East Riddlesden Hall. |
Council meetings: 21 November 2007, 27 February 2008, 28 May 2008, 16 July 2008.
