Ripon Historical Society meetings

Meetings are held at Ripon each month (except July, August and December) in the Ripon Library, The Arcade, off Market Place, to hear talks on a wide variety of subjects.

Group visits are made to places of interest from time to time. There is ample free parking available.

Meetings start a 7.30pm. Visitors are welcome at all our meetings. A small charge is levied.

Programme details for 2007 are as follows:

March 14th | AGM starting at 7.15pm followed at 7.45 by Ted Connell, Putting the House to Bed
(Stately Homes).

April 11th | Eric Matthews. Some North Yorkshire Late-Medieval Castles.

May 9th | Elizabeth Melrose. North Yorkshire Maps and Mapmakers.

June 13th | David Templeman. Mary Queen of Scots and the Houses of her Captivity in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

September 12th | Mark Newman. Fountains after the Dissolution.

October 10th | Mick Stanley. The building of Harewood House, and its Craftsmen.

November 14th | Janet Niepokojczcka. Packhorse Days and Packhorse Ways in the North of England.