Visitors to Beverley Art Gallery are enjoying the current exhibition – Yorkshire Pictures: The Fylingdales Group of Artists at Beverley, which will run until 6 July.
The museums service is putting on a special finds identification day at the Treasure House in Beverley on Thursday, 1 November. Janet Tierney, curator of Goole Museum and Skidby Mill, and Dr David Marchant, museums registrar,
On Saturday, 22 September a new exhibition opens at Beverley Art Gallery. ‘The Schools’ features work by 12 contemporary artists who all studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London, between the 1950s and 1990s.
Heritage buildings all over England will be running special events for next weekend’s national Heritage Open Day and East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Archives and Local Studies Service will be throwing open the doors at the Beverley Treasure House
The Beverley Guildhall will again be open for the Heritage Open Days this year, with a new exhibition to mark the event. This year’s open days are Thursday, 6 to Saturday, 8 September, for which the Guildhall will be open from 10am-4pm.
The latest in the “East Riding Lives” display series opens at the Treasure House in Beverley on Tuesday, 28 August. “Tanks & Trumpets” looks at the life of Alfred William Dobson of Hull, who served
Described as a personal exploration of English prehistory in today’s landscape, ‘Traces’, an exhibition of photographs by Steve Speller and ceramics by Alison Milner, is currently on display in Gallery Two at the Beverley Treasure House.
Another mini-display by a local independent museum opens at the Treasure House, in Beverley, on Thursday, 2 August. The display, in the café case on the first floor, focuses on Epworth Old Rectory, North Lincolnshire, home of the Wesley family during the 18th
The Beverley Guildhall is trying something new for the summer this year. A new exhibition, called “Roll Up! Roll Up!” opens on Friday, 20 July, based around the pictures that Fred Elwell painted during his wanderings round Europe with the Sanger’s Circus.
It’s less than a month until the Olympics return to London for a third time, and the world’s spotlight will be turned on the British nation for a festival of sport in which 204 nations will compete for glory.
An exhibition to highlight some of the East Riding’s most precious objects, revealing many international influences on the cultural heritage of the area, will be on display at the Treasure House from Saturday, 2 June until Saturday, 28 July.
A new exhibition is now showing in the village life gallery at Skidby Windmill. Produced by volunteers from the East Riding Rural Life Project, the exhibition is entitleed “Ox-head and Gruel – a story of Almshouses
With all the present day talk about the Humber being around the renewable energy sector, it is often forgotten that the area has a rich association with shipbuilding.
Family history is a thriving hobby, with parish registers and census returns offering vital information for those trying to trace their ancestors. Most people are lucky if they have a few old photographs, letters or diaries to go on.
The North Bar is the town’s last surviving medieval gate. The other two, Newbiggen Gate and Keld Gate, were pulled down in the 18th and 19th centuries after falling into disrepair.
The commercialisation of Christmas is a phenomenon that tends to be associated with modern times and a retail-oriented culture and it’s fair to say that, year on year, Christmas appears to come a little earlier to the high street. As Beverley gears up for another Festival of Christmas event, staff at East Riding archives and local studies service have been looking back at Christmases past and one of their most…
Yorkshire Theatres, The Nuns of Watton Priory, East Yorkshire Building Recording and ‘South Riding’ are the subjects of this autumn’s lecture programme held in the Treasure House, organised by the archives & local studies service. This autumn series, now in its eighteenth year, commences with a lecture delivered by Ian Small entitled ‘Tate Wilkinson’s Monarchy – the Yorkshire Theatres in the late 18th Century’ on Friday, 28 October. Dr Michael…
The items held at the Treasure House are, for obvious reasons, carefully preserved and cared for and provide an invaluable insight into the heritage of East Yorkshire. Whilst the majority of the unique archives at the Treasure House are freely available for members of the public to read and enjoy, it is no surprise that, at the end of the day, these valuable records must go back into the vaults…