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When:
September 9, 2026 @ 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm
2026-09-09T19:15:00+01:00
2026-09-09T20:45:00+01:00
Where:
Keighley Civic Centre
Cost:
£3.50 (free to members)
September’s History Society meeting is on Wednesday 9th September 2026. It will include a talk from educator and guest speaker Gillian Waters. The Cliffords were one of the families, along with the Percys and the Nevilles, who dominated the north in the Tudor period. Gillian will explore how they gained their lands and power, and how they evolved from their modest original home in Herefordshire, to their magnificent home of Skipton Castle, through winning renown in the Welsh and Scottish campaigns of Kings Edward I and Edward II. Then how they nearly lost it all, through backing the losing side in the Wars of the Roses, and, ultimately, how things led to a bitter legal wrangle over the Clifford estates in the 17th century.
The History Society meeting will take place upstairs in the Civic Centre, on North Street. Doors open at 7.15pm and the meeting will start just before 7.30pm. Entry is free to History Society members, or £3.50 for anyone else who wants to just come along (booking is not required). Members can also choose to join the meeting via Zoom if they wish.
You can take out membership of the History Society at any of our meetings in the Civic Centre. Membership costs £15 (or £20 for two people at the same address). Buy membership for 2027 at this meeting and get the remainder of 2026 included. Please pay in cash on the night. As well as free entry to our monthly meetings, membership also gets you invited to members-only events and you will receive the quarterly newsletter via email.
