Meetings are usually on the first Wednesday of the month from October to April, but this may change if too near to New Year’s Day or the Easter weekend.

They are held in Cottingham Civic Hall, Market Green.

For the season 2026-27 they will start at 7.30 p.m. and finish at 9.00 p.m. Doors will open at 7.00 p.m.

Admission fee for members is £2 and for non-members £4.

Programme of Talks 2026–27

October 7 Robb Robinson, ‘Hull, Yorkshire’s Maritime City: the inland waterways dimension’. 

November 4 John Killingbeck, ‘A history of Thwaite Gardens’. The Annual Stamp Lecture.

December 2 Peter Halkon, ‘Petuaria Revisited: investigating Roman Brough’.

January 6 Richard Clarke, ‘Holderness: the land that came, went and came again’.

February 3 Alex Ombler, ‘Hessle Cliff and the Black Mill at Hessle’.

March 3 David Neave, ‘Highlights of 59 years of researching the history and buildings of East Yorkshire’.

April 7 AGM followed by a social event for members.