Programme 2018/19

August 4th
Gervase Phinn-
‘You can always tell a Yorkshireman’
Ticketed event Members Price £8

September 1st
The Leader Brothers
‘Rockingham China; Made for display in the best possible taste’

September 22nd
Pat McGlaughlan –
‘Green Men and Gargoyles’

6th October
Dr James Mackay- University of Leeds
‘Dinosaurs in Art’

November 3rd
Professor Joann Fletcher- tv presenter and University of York
‘The Story of Egypt’-
Ticketed event Members Price £8

November 17TH
David Inglesby- (Genealogy Officer Great Northern Railway Society);
The Curious Tales of the men who worked for The Great Northern Railway

December 8th
Christmas Social Event-
Talk by 14-18 Project , Quiz and much more

 

12th January
2019 John Hoare-
‘Britain’s Inland Waterways’

9th February
Dr Ruth Brompton Charlesworth FLS
‘Murder Most Flowery’: The Significance of Horticulture in the Committing and
Solving of Crime in the works of Agatha Christie'.

9th March
Dr Charles Simpson, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
‘Fifty Years Since Apollo’

13th April
Dave Fordham- author
‘Doncaster’s Mining Communities’

May-(tbc)
Hyde Park Cemetery Walk with Friends of Hyde Park

18th May
Annual General Meeting followed by
Jackie Gladden – Dr Edwood Chorley, his life and times in Regency Doncaster

June 29th
Dr Tracy Borman – Author, broadcaster Joint Chief Curator Historic Royal
Palaces ‘Henry 8th’ – ticketed event Members Price £8

July 13th
British Association of Friends of Museums Regional Conference- Doncaster
Museum- details to follow

Ticketed events; tickets are available at each Friends Meeting or contact
daveadgar@gmail.com to reserve