Tag: Event

International Women’s Day

Events marking International Women’s Day 2025 are being held at Keighley Local Studies Library next Saturday (Saturday 8th March 2025). Guest speakers include three women familiar to the History Society: author and journalist Sharon Wright, social historian Jude Rhodes and performer and historian Irene Lofthouse. The library will also have special displays to look through.

Details for the day can be seen in the poster, and all of the talks are free to attend. No need to pre-book. Support our local library!

Handbell History Event

This Saturday (1st March 2025) from 2pm, Cliffe Castle is hosting a talk on the history of handbell ringing, with demonstration and the opportunity to take part, as part of the Season of Music organised by the Cliffe Castle Support Group.

“In the late 19th and early 20th centuries tune ringing on hand bells was extremely popular across the industrial towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Teams played with large sets of bells, often upwards of 150 bells per team.”

To book a free place, ring 01535 618231 or email cliffe.castle@bradford.gov.uk or call to the museum and book in person.

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Talk on The Workhouse

Jude Rhodes is giving her next talk in Keighley Local Studies Library (upstairs in the main library) on Saturday 22nd February (2.30pm to 4.30pm). This time it is on The Workhouse. Jude’s talks are always thoroughly researched and informative, so well worth going along to.

Please note, this is a Local Studies Library event, so if you have any questions please contact the library.

February’s History Society Meeting

February’s History Society meeting is next Wednesday (12th February 2025) . The guest speaker is History Society member Graham Mitchell examining the new evidence that both Boys from the Tower were alive after the death of their uncle, King Richard III. [The background image is a detail from ‘The Princes in the Tower’ by John Everett Millais (1878), courtesy of the Royal Holloway Picture Gallery.]

The meeting 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. 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 meetings in the Library (cash only please) or online via the society’s website.

Mechanics’ Institute Event @ Library

Keighley Local Studies Library have been in touch with a date for your diaries for the end of January…

“We have an event on Saturday, 25th January that I am sure some of your members would be very interested in. The morning is a one place study of the Mechanics’ Institute with Jude Rhodes, we shall be getting out plans, photographs and other archives out for this in the morning. In the afternoon we have the book launch of Colin Neville’s Keighley School of Art and a talk by him about the Mechanics’ Institute, the art school and its artists.”

Please contact the team in the Local Studies Library if you want any further details.

Christmas & Birthday Meeting

Terrific spread in the Keighley News for our upcoming Christmas meeting, upstairs in the Library on Wednesday 11th December 2024. This year we are not just marking the festive season but we will also be celebrating our 20th birthday.

There is the chance to look through some of the donations made throughout the year, a look back at Christmas in Keighley in 1964, a quiz, and of course cake and tea and coffee. There is also the chance to take out society membership for 2025.

The meeting is open to all. We meet upstairs in the Local Studies Library from 7.15pm (please use the Albert Street entrance if arriving after 7pm). Entry is free to History Society members or £3.50 for anyone else. The meeting finishes around 8.45pm.

Upcoming Library Events…

Two events to look out for at Keighley Library…

Saturday 21st September 2024 – The Men of Worth Project are marking the 100th anniversary of the Keighley Roll of Honour 1914-18 and the War Memorial in Town Hall Square by mounting a special exhibition. It opens this Saturday and highlights the names of people omitted from the original Roll, following extensive research by the Project. Andy Wade will be giving a talk at 10.30 am.

Saturday 5th October 2024 – There will be a talk on influential Labour politician Philip Snowden, who was born in Cowling and served on Keighley Council before becoming an MP, first for Blackburn then for Colne Valley. The talk will take the form of a panel, hosted by Alex Clifford with guests Professor Keith Laybourn, Professor Andrew Thorpe and Will Barber, between 2.30pm and 4pm.

September 2024 Events

Plenty of activities lining up for September…

Sunday 1st September – Keighley Bus Museum is having an Open Day at their Dalton Lane site. The History Society has a display.

Saturday 7th September – Keighley Show. The History Society has a stall – hope to see lots of you there. We will have a special offer on History Society membership for new members – pay for 2025 membership and get the rest of 2024 thrown in. Membership is £15 (cash-only please).

Monday 9th September – The History Society is holding a guided walk around Keighley town centre as part of the Keighley Walking Festival. Meet at the Town Hall Square at 1pm (distance is about 1.5 miles, comfortable shows advised).

Wednesday 11th September – September’s History Society meeting is Eddie Kelly talking about the ‘Lost & Forgotten Inns & Public Houses of Keighley’. This meeting is on Zoom (NOT in the library) and is a members-only meeting.

Hope to see as many of you as possible at these different events.

August Talk on History of Library

Great coverage in this week’s Keighley News of the forthcoming History Society meeting. Tim Neal will be telling the 120 years story of Keighley Library by dropping off at twelve key dates during its history and talking about the innovations and key people involved.

The talk is on Wednesday 14th August 2024, upstairs in the local studies library of Keighley Library. The meeting starts about 7.20pm. Please use the entrance on Albert Street.

Anyone is welcome to come along. It is free to History Society members and £3.50 to anyone else, no need to book in advance. History Society members can also join in via Zoom.