10/1/2022 0 Comments LATE CHANGE to 2022 programmeOmicron has made us make a slight change to our 2022 programme. A poll of LLHG members as to whether we should go ahead with face to face meetings produced a slight majority in favour, but the Committee took the view that the wary members would forgo the meeting whereas the bullish would still join the Zoom session. We have therefore decided to have the AGM via Zoom and to keep that option open for the February meeting. Hopefully March 2022 will see us back to normal.
For the AGM we have a change of speaker. Instead of the advertised talk on WW1 Medicine in Cumbria by Richard Preston, who does not do Zoom, our own Prof. Ian Hodkinson will treat us to his researches into First Footers - The Earliest Naturalists to Walk The Lake District.
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29/12/2021 0 Comments NEW YEAR GREETINGS and 2022 programmeThe LLHG Committee wishes all our members past and present all the very best for 2022.
Please see the MEETINGS page for details of our 2022 programme. starting with our AGM on 20 January. Please note that the programme was arranged before the Covid Omicron variant was ever heard of. We hope to be able to hold the meetings in the Levens Village Hall (formerly the Institute) without social distancing precautions, but as at 29 December this is uncertain. Arrangements might well be changed at short notice. What a way to have to operate.! Happy New Year. 8/11/2021 0 Comments 2022 Meetings ProgrammeHere is the programme we have arranged for 2022. Hope you find it interesting.
In advance, wishing you all a Happy Christmas and healthy and prosperous 2022. 20 Jan – AGM – Richard Preston – Cumbria’s Medical contribution to the Great War 17 Feb – Emeritus Prof. Robert Fox – Adam Sedgwick 17 Mar – Ian Tyler – The Gunpowder Industry in Cumbria 21 Apr – John Sharpe – History of the Police in Cumbria 19 May – Christopher Tinmouth – Local Connections with Richard III 16 Jun – TO BE CONFIRMED – WALK (Milnthorpe) – Stuart Harling 15 Sep – Dick O'Brien – The Pilgrimage of Grace in Cumberland and Westmorland 20 Oct – Steve Dickinson – Stones that Speak (neolithic discoveries in Cumbria) 17 Nov –VIA ZOOM - Dr. Fiona Edmonds – The Rise and Fall of the Northumbrian Kingdom, c. 600-1100 14/8/2021 0 Comments September 2021 speaker meetingRichard Preston is unable to give us his talk on WW1 medicine in Cumbria, which we hope to reschedule to 2022, and in his place, Christine Craghill will speak on the "Cumbria Farmhouse Odyssey" -A journey through time assessing how the Cumbrian farmhouse has developed since medieval times, travelling through the ‘so called’ Great Re-building to ‘polite’ architecture and the emergence of enlightened Victorian Model Farms.
7/7/2021 0 Comments Our extra speaker meetingWe couldn't have our planned walk on 29 July, but we do have an extra speaker meeting. It is on WEDNESDAY 21 July at 19.30 via Zoom, and is appropriate for our last talk before the summer break
Dr. Michael Winstanley will talk on "Getting Away from it All" about the growth of the seaside resort in the 19th century. Who did they cater for? Why are they so different? The growth of the day trip and seaside holiday. Those who remember our failed attempt to get a grant for a major archaeological project in Levens Park will be reassured to know that our time was well spent, because we decided to use our preliminary research as the base for a reappraisal of the the findings of David Sturdy's "rescue dig" carried out in the late 1960s when the proposed alignment of the Kendal to Crooklands M6 link road threatened to cross the northern end of Levens Park.
The reappraisal was led by Tom Clare, former Cumbria County Archaeologist, ably assisted by LLHG members Ian Hodkinson, Geoff Cook, Mark Simpson and Stephen Read, and has produced a paper which has been accepted for publication in the Archaeological Journal which is the journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute. We are very proud to have been published in a major academic journal. You can read the paper HERE. 7/4/2021 0 Comments April 07th, 2021See the Meetings page for an update, plus we are NOT wasting the 17 June date either.
3/2/2021 0 Comments OUR 2021 SEASONThe LLHG Committee hopes that all members and our followers are keeping well and that they and their families have avoided the effects of the C19 plague.
We couldn't go on for ever postponing our meetings so we had the AGM by Zoom and it proved quite successful as did the first speaker meeting (18 February) by Zoom. We are therefore continuing the 2021 programme via Zoom until at least the middle of the year. We hope that social distancing requirements will allow us to have an outdoor meeting in mid June, after which we will take our usual summer break and with luck re-commence normal indoor meetings in September. Our programme is posted in the "Meetings" section of this website. After a good deal of thought the LLHG Committee has decided (w.e.f. 24 July) that the remaining 3 meetings in our 2020 programme are cancelled. We are not confident that the need for social distancing will evaporate in the near future thus making it unfeasible for Levens Institute to host our members and visitors. We hope that we will be able to welcome everyone back in January 2021 when our AGM falls due.
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