Month: March 2025

New Newsletter Out Now

The latest members’ newsletter is out now. Available free to History Society members as a PDF, the newsletter comes out four times a year. This latest edition is 20 pages long and contains articles on a society visit to the Brontë Parsonage, the M&S store on Low Street, Keighley Amateurs stalwart Arthur Day, a new book that includes coverage of the “Keighley Martyrs”, the Holden Memorial in Holden Park, and plenty of dates for your diary for history-related events coming up in the area.

If you wish to join the History Society, it costs £15 a year and the easiest way to join is to come along to one of our monthly meetings in the Civic Centre (second Wednesday of every month).

Library Closed for Refurbishment

Keighley Library is closing for a number of weeks from THURSDAY 13th MARCH. The main library will be operating a ‘click & collect’ service, but the LOCAL STUDIES LIBRARY have a different system. Read below for details.

Thursday 13th and Friday 14th March: The Local Studies Library will offer a by-appointment service only to visitors who need to access publications and original records for their research. Visitors will be required to book their visit in advance to use the appointment service. Visitors should then turn up at the entrance on Spencer Street at the allotted time and will be taken up to the Local Studies Library.

Week commencing Monday 17th March: The Local Studies Library will be closed completely for one week to allow for essential collections work. During this time, the team will respond to urgent enquiries via email only.

From Tuesday 25th March: the by-appointment service will resume. This will last for the duration of the refurbishment work which is expected to last for about three weeks.

Please check the library website and social media for updates

www.bradford.gov.uk/libraries

Civil War at Next Society Meeting

March’s History Society meeting will be guest speaker Thomas Zugic looking at the causes of the Civil War and the significance of places such as Adwalton Moor, Tadcaster, Bradford, Selby and Marston Moor. He’ll also be exploring some of the tactics employed and the weapons used, including bringing along some reproduction weapons and armour, and a diorama of a typical Civil War army. [Background image is a detail from The Battle of Adwalton Moor by Jean Moust.]

The meeting is on Wednesday 12th March 2025 and will be held in the main hall, upstairs in Keighley Civic Centre (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE OF VENUE). Doors open at 7.15pm. There is a lift to access the first floor. Entry is free to History Society members and is £3.50 to anyone else – all are welcome to attend. The meeting is scheduled to finish around 8.45pm. Members of the History Society also have the option of joining the meeting online via Zoom.

Membership of the History Society costs £15 for the calendar year. You can join at any of our face-to-face meetings (cash only please) or online via the society’s website.