The winner of the £250 first prize for the 2017 Packett Prize Competition is Peter McCarthy. The winning essay is entitled ‘The Eight Streets of Grangetown: immigration, assimilation and dissemination’. …

Allan Wilby, our Programme Secretary, has put together some great talks and other activities over the coming months. Details can be found on our Programme page.

We were delighted to receive four essays as entries to the Packett Prize Competition. The essays embraced a wide range of topics and periods of history, and included some excellent …

The Annual General Meeting took place on Saturday 8 April 2017. We had a good turn-out of Members and they received reports on the work that has been done by …

Fascinating and sometimes unexpected, the things you learn at lectures. I once learned how to make poteen using boot polish and a gas meter at a Sociology lecture (just so …

Timing is everything. The same weekend as the Society hosted a lecture entitled ‘The search for Cook’s Cottage’, considerable interest in the subject of houses possibly lived in by Captain …

WHAT WAS TEESSIDE LIKE 350 YEARS AGO? NORTH EAST ENGLAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Details have been announced about the Day School the Society is holding, in partnership with Teesside …

The Frank Elgee Memorial Lecture ‘Nature and Industry on the Tees’ Saturday December 3rd 2016 10.30am Dorman Museum Middlesbrough TS5 6LA Every year a lecture is held which celebrates and …

  Remarkable ground-penetrating technology has revealed more than 500 graves of Cistercian monks and lay brothers who once lived at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. Geophysical techniques and ground-penetrating radar have …

Advance Notice! Make a note in your diary! Saturday 11 March 2017 Day School – North East England during the Seventeenth Century Speakers will include Phil Philo, Martin Roberts and …