Oct
9
Wed
October’s History Society meeting will be a talk from guest speaker Ian Bottomley, former senior curator at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. The talk describes how the Portuguese, who were exploring the East, had trade guns made in Goa that they then spread further East, reaching Japan in 1543 and influencing that country’s history. Ian will be bringing along a couple of antique guns, and some accessories that attendees can handle.
The meeting is on Wednesday 9th October 2024 and will be held in the Local Studies Library, upstairs in Keighley Library. Doors open at 7.15pm (please use the Albert Street entrance if arriving at the Library after 7pm). 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.
Membership of the History Society costs £15 for the calendar year. You can join at any of our meetings in the Library. If you join at this meeting you will get membership for 2025 with the rest of 2024 thrown in. Cash only please.
Nov
13
Wed
Agenda: Chair’s report on 2024, Treasurer’s report, any changes to constitution, election of officers, discussion of year ending/year to come.
This is a HISTORY SOCIETY MEMBERS ONLY meeting, which will be held on Zoom (not in the Library). Details on how to join in on Zoom will be sent out via email a few days in advance of the meeting.
Dec
11
Wed
Our usual festive get-together with mince pies, items from the collection and a quiz.
Keighley and District Local History Society’s monthly meetings are held upstairs in the Local Studies Library on the first floor of Keighley Library on North Street. Doors open at 7pm and the meeting starts around 7.20pm. We aim to finish between 8.30pm and 8.45pm.
Anyone is welcome to attend and entry is free to History Society members or £3.50 if not a member. Members can also choose to join the meeting via Zoom if they prefer (details on how to join the meeting via Zoom are sent out in an email a few days before the meeting).
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