Talks usually take place at 7.30 pm on the first Tuesday in the month, during BST (April – October) both face-to-face in Bedale Hall and online via Zoom and during GMT (November – March) online only.
Members are sent Zoom links automatically. Non-members please use the contact form for details.
Note that the August meeting will be face-to-face only and will take place in the afternoon.
Visitors are welcome to meetings for a charge of £3 per person.
| Tuesday 6th January 2026 Zoom Only | AGM + The art of evaluation – when archaeology doesn’t go to plan | David Ingham FSA MCIfA, Project Manager at Albion Archaeology. |
| Tuesday 3rd February 2026 Zoom Only | Investigating the Origin of the Stonehenge Bluestones and Population Migration | Dr Daisy Spencer, Palaeoenvironmental Researcher, University of Galway |
| Tuesday 3rd March 2026 Zoom Only | Capability Brown – His Life and Times at Temple Newsam | Mike Turpin Chair South Leeds Archaeology |
| Tuesday 7th April 2026 | WWI memorialisation in stained-glass windows in Yorkshire churches | Graham E. Seel |
| Tuesday 5th May 2026 | Ironstone Mining around New Marske | Dr Chris Twigg |
| Tuesday 2nd June 2026 | S&D200 | Dr Emma Watson, Team Leader, Tees Archaeology |
| Tuesday 7th July 2026 | Guided walk/visit | TBA |
| Tuesday 4th August 2026 2-4 pm | Finds handling S&D200 | Dr Emma Watson, Tees Archaeology |
| Tuesday 1st September 2026 | The Demise and Rise again of Anglo-Saxon England 793-975 AD | Prof. Dr Dyno Keatinge |
| Tuesday 6th October 2026 | The annual Percival Turnbull Memorial Lecture: Does a Neolithic Henge lurk beneath Kirk Hammerton? | Dr Jon Kenny, Community Archaeologist |
| Tuesday 3rd November 2026 Zoom Only | Ancient DNA and kinship analysis at the Iron Age cemetery at Wetwang Slack | Prof. Ian Armit, Chair in Archaeology, University of York |
| Tuesday 1st December 2026 Zoom Only | Roman Britain: Conquest and Rebellions | Dr Ian Chambers FRGS |