AgeUK oral history project

Earlier this year we were asked to support an oral history project which AgeUK were conducting. They are holding a meeting on Thursday 6th November in Normanton.
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Just a week to go - find out about this unique and valuable treasure that was found in Wakefield in the 18th century and saved for the nation by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Kingswood Suite, Wakefield Town Hall, Wednesday 18th June 7pm. Visitors welcome £2.

Wakefield Historical Society's next meeting is on the 18th June, Kingswood Suite, Wakefield Town Hall.
'The Deposition from the Cross, a rare and valuable 12th century ivory carving from Wakefield'.
by Michaela Zöschg, V&A Museum.
Visitors welcome a donation of £2 is requested.

Members of Wakefield Historical Society attended the Yorkshire Heritage Summit at Skipton Town Hall on 13th May. Societies and organisations from across Yorkshire had stalls and we enjoyed exchanging information with them.
www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/about-us/blog/

Our Society belongs to the West Yorkshire Archives Community Archives Group, and attended the recent meeting on 19 March at Saltaire. Find out more:
www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/about-us/blog/

A little out of our usual area, but a talk on Womersley and its park would be interesting, one of the landed estates once in the West Riding.