All talks this season will be on the basis of open attendance, including non-members. The annual membership subscription fee is £15 and £3 per talk for non-members. All talks are held at the Swadford Street Centre, Swadford Street, Skipton, on Thursday evenings at 7.30 p.m.

Look out for SCHS announcements on X, Facebook and in the weekly local newspaper, the Craven Herald.

Skipton and Craven History Society – Programme 2025/2026

2025

9^th October – Dr Kenneth Jackson

Subject: Skipton and the Railway

23^rd October – Alan Fowler

Subject: Cotton Cartoons

13^th November – Ken Creek

Subject: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

27^th November – Dr Mike Spence

Subject: Some Craven Place Names

11^th December – David Turner

Subject: John Benjamin Stone (1838-1914) Photographer, Traveller, and Politician

2026

22^nd January – Dr Chris Skidmore

Subject: A Quaker Cottage Through Time

12^th February – Judith Barras

Subject: 1816 The Year Without Summer

26^th February – Sue Wrathmell

Subject: ‘New House’ in Skipton, the Devonshire past and present.

12^th March – John Cuthbert/Sarah Lister/David Mander

Subject: Community Archives in the Yorkshire Dales

26^th March – Susan Snell

Subject: Discovering freemasonry in the Skipton area

9^th April – Dr Matt Wells

Subject: Roman Skipton: Excavations at Hawbank Field

23^rd April – Graham Nolan

Subject: The Slingsbys of Carleton: Mill Owners, Mountaineers and Military Men.