Back in 2019, at the instigation of Vice President, Milly Johnson, The Yorkshire Society unveiled a blue plaque in honour of Barry Hines, the author of A Kestrel for a Knave, on which the film Kes was based. You can read a report about it here. Kes is a classic piece...
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Members only FREE prize draw – Join and you could win a break at the magnificent Yorkshire Hotel in Harrogate.
We have partnered with The Yorkshire Hotel in Harrogate to give individual members of The Yorkshire Society the chance to win a fantastic break for two in the first of our regular quarterly prize draws, designed to say thank you for joining. THE MAIN PRIZE A one-night...
Join The Yorkshire Society for just £24 and help us help Yorkshire
You are invited to join The Yorkshire Society as a paid-up individual member and be part of a real community, with both spirit and benefits. Free membership of the Society, which was introduced to celebrate the Society's 40th anniversary in 2020, came to an end last...
Yorkshire has its new Climate Commission, but what can we do to help?
If you wanted to define the single most serious threat to the health, welfare and well-being of future generations of people living in Yorkshire, it would not be Covid-19, terrorism, nuclear weapons, a crashing economy, but something that impinges on all these things...