Tuesday 16 April 7.30pm, Slingsby Methodist Chapel
Professor Dominic Powlesland will give a lecture sharing details of last year’s discoveries during excavations of Hovingham’s Roman villa. Come along to hear this highly-entertaining speaker. The lecture will be in the Methodist Chapel itself (rather than the chapel schoolroom) as we expect this to be a popular session.
Tuesday 19th March, 7.30pm, Talk on Iron Age Slingsby in Methodist School Room
In this lecture, Professor Melanie Giles will explain the significance of Slingsby’s Iron Age ‘barrow cemetery’. Building on last year’s lecture by Bruce Harrison on the Mesolithic and Neolithic evidence from the rich evidence of flint finds, Mel will reflect on the evidence from antiquarian, aerial and archaeological discoveries to explain why Slingsby might offer a unique insight into Ryedale’s Iron Age past, setting the scene for Professor Dominic Powlesland to share his latest thoughts on Roman Ryedale in the light of excavations at Hovingham’s Roman villa in April.
Tuesday 21 November 2023, 7.30pm, Slingsby Methodist Schoolroom.
Many wonderful old words have fallen into disuse and are crying out to be rediscovered! Slingsby Local History Group welcome a guest speaker from Malton Museum to introduce you to a few of them and tell you of their origins and uses over the centuries and their links to Malton’s history.
This promises to be an interesting and informative talk, covering language use, history and story-telling.
Entrance £2. All welcome
The Group will also discuss plans for our usual Christmas session and for next year’s talks.
Tuesday 18th April, 7.30pm, Slingsby Methodist Schoolroom. The Local History Group will meet for its April meeting and a lecture by Kate Giles on the Middleham Jewel.
This jewel was found in 1985 by a metal detectorist near Middleham Castle and the story of its discovery, analysis and interpretation was the subject of a lecture some years ago by Kate Giles, when you might remember a certain king was found in a car park!!
Kate is currently carrying out new research on the jewel with colleagues at the University of York and York Museums Trust, where it is displayed today. She has been involved in creating new exhibition content for Middleham Castle and would love to share some thoughts about the object and its North Yorkshire connections with you – perhaps leading to a group visit to Middleham and Jervaulx later in the Summer, if there is interest.
Meet as normal in Methodist Schoolroom at 7.30pm Tuesday 18th April.
After the lecture we will reflect on plans for Summer lectures and visits.
Tuesday 21 March, 7.30pm, Slingsby Methodist Schoolroom, Local History Club meeting.
This month, Slingsby’s Local History Group will be taking inspiration from the current plans to develop the Sports and Social Club in the village to look at some of the photographic archive we hold which captures past sporting activities, village sports days and longer traditions in the village, based on the extensive photographic collection and a couple of past projects where sporting and entertainment have been the focus of Local History projects.
We’ll explore whether this could form the focus of a future project or exhibition, and look forward to a few shared memories, too.
All are welcome to attend. Your ideas and recollections will serve to drive this project to its goal.
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