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Past speakers

2022-23
Jenny Scruton, 'Kay Kendall: a Life Cut Short; Pete Lowden, The TS Southampton and the Class of 1911'; Mike Rymer, 'Netherhall, Sutton: the House and Its People'; Jane Owen, Heritage Manager, Hull Minster, 'Revival - Back to Life project'; John Scotney, 'Converging on Hull'; David Smith, 'The Avenues: an Illustrated History'

2019-20
Hilary Byers, 'The National Picture Theatre, Beverley Road'; Richard Clarke, 'The History of Suffolk Palace, Hull'; Alan & Michele Beadle, 'One Hull of a Show: White City, 1920-38'; Dr Alec Gill MBE, 'Superstitions: "Friday the Thirteenth" Special
 
2018-19
Dr Helen Atherton, 'Three East Riding Hospitals - Brandesburton, Winestead & Tilworth Grange; Godfrey Holmes, 'Withernsea: Seaside Resort for Hull'; Simon Davies, 'Hull Air Defences in the First and Second World Wars'; Helen Good, 'Elizabethan Hull in the Star Chamber court'; Martin Eldred, 'All Saints Church and Cavendish Square'; Pete Lowden, 'The Rise and Fall of Hull General Cemetery'; Dr Stephen Caunce, 'The Highlight of the Rural Year: the Agricultural Hiring Fairs of East Yorkshire, 1890-1925' (President's Evening); Hull General Cemetery (visit); Sutton & Wawne Museum (visit)

2017-18
David Alexander Smith, 'The Hohenrein Brothers: Surviving the Great War at Home and Abroad'; Tony Nolan, 'Hull Born and Bred'; Carol Osgerby, 'Beyond the End of the Line: a Virtual Tour of Holderness'; Dr Martin Craven, Hedon Silver Show; Malcom Wells, 'Remembering Hull Trolleybuses'; Robin Horspool, 'The House of Powolny: Death and Life of a Hull Restaurant'; Dr Robb Robinson, 'From Tramps to Tycoons: Hull & the Steamship Era' (President's Evening); Everingham Hall / Catholic Chapel of SS Mary & Everilda (visit); All Saints, Goodmanham / Hall Garth (visit); St Peter's, Anlaby / St Mary's, Cottingham (visit)

2016-17
Robin Horspool,  'The Hearth and Home with the Misses Bronte'; Dr Brian W. Lavery, 'The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Tragedy'; Kath & Clive Richardson, 'Lest We Forget'; Tony Hay, 'The Church of Ss Mary and Joseph, Hedon and the Holderness Mission'; Dr Alec Gill MBE, 'Amy Johnson - Hessle Road Tomboy'; Jo Dunn, 'The Wilson Family of Tranby Croft; Valerie Wood, 'My Holderness' (President's Evening)

2015-16 
Arthur Credland MBE: 'The Hull Zeppelin Raids, 1915-18'; Steve Morley, Yorkshire Film Archive (President's Evening); Alan Deighton: 'A Shocking Case of Starvation in Hull: the Life of "Count" Adolphe de Werdinsky'; Jill Crowther: 'The Settlement at the End of the World: Ex-Servicemen's Communal Farming at Sunk Island, 1917-27'; Josie Adams, 'Welcome to Farrago'