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Original Article

Personalities and Publishing: Two Aspects of the History of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1863–2013

Brian Barber Sheffield, UKView further author information
Pages 27-45 | Published online: 03 Dec 2013

  • The early history of the society has been fully described in S. J. Chadwick, ‘The Yorkshire Archaeological Society: An Account of its Origins in 1863 and its Progress from that Date to 1913’, YAJ, 23 (1915), 1–91 [hereafter Chadwick]; J. W. Walker, The History of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society (c. 1945); ‘Commemoration of the Centenary of the Society (1893–1963)’, YAJ, 41 (1963), 134–59.
  • M. Bentley, Modernising England’s Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970 (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 23–32; J. Campbell, ‘William Stubbs’, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), 53, pp. 217–22.
  • Genealogical History of the Family of the late Bishop William Stubbs compiled by himself, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, 55 (1915); and see R. M. Koch, ‘Bishop Stubbs and Knaresborough’, YAJ, 82 (2010), 343–61.
  • Chadwick, p. 6.
  • ‘H. B. McCall’, YAJ, 32 (1936), 98–101; C. Brooke, ‘Charles Clay, 1885–1978’, YAJ, 52 (1980), 1–18.
  • B. J. Barber and M. W. Beresford, The West Riding County Council 1889–1974 (Wakefield, 1978), pp. 1–3.
  • ‘Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart., FSA’, YAJ, 20 (1909), 105–10; C. Giles, ‘The Huddersfield Woollen Industry and Its Architecture’, in Huddersfield — A Most Handsome Town, ed. E. A. H. Haigh (Huddersfield, 1992), pp. 288–90; Barber and Beresford, West Riding County Council, p. 149.
  • J. W. R. P[arker], ‘Sir George John Armytage, baronet, DL, FSA’, YAJ, 25 (1920), 341–45.
  • E. W. Crossley, ‘Colonel John W. R. Parker, CB, FSA’, YAJ, 34 (1939), 228–30; obituary from Yorkshire Post (no date) in YAS, MS 1189/1.
  • A. H. Thompson, ‘William Brown, D. Litt., FSA’, YAJ, 28 (1926), 126.
  • E. W. C[rossley], ‘Major F. W. Slingsby, JP, FSA’, YAJ, 27 (1924), 408–09; obituary from an unidentified source in YAS, DD/22/1, Minute Book of the Tykes’ Club, opposite entries for 29 Feb. 1924.
  • S. L. Ollard, ’Philip Charles Walker, MA’, YAJ, 31 (1934), 426–29.
  • J. Bilson, ‘Lieut. Col. E. Kitson Clark, MA, FSA’, YAJ, 36 (1947), 126; C. S. Briggs, ‘A Century of Yorkshire Archaeology and History, 1900–2000: The Kitson Clarks of Meanwoodside and Beyond’, YAJ, 77 (2005), 263–81.
  • W. E. Rumble, ‘Edwin Charles Clark (1835–1917)’, DNB, 11, pp. 793–94.
  • N. Gash, ‘George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–75)’, DNB, 11, pp. 801–02.
  • D. T. Jenkins, ‘Textiles and Other Industries’, in Huddersfield, ed. Haigh, pp. 248–50; E. W. C[rossley], ‘J. W. Clay, JP, FSA’, YAJ, 25 (1920), 124–26.
  • Chadwick, pp. 75–77, 83–86.
  • J. T. F[owler], ‘James Fowler’, YAJ, 12 (1893), 78–82; E. W. Crossley, ‘Francis Collins, MD’, YAJ, 28 (1926), 131–34; for Walker, see below; J. W. Walker, ‘Eli Wilkinson Crossley’, YAJ, 35 (1943), 439–31; ‘Local Magistrate’s Golden Wedding’, Halifax Daily Courier and Guardian, 16 Jan. 1940, reprint in YAS, MS 1189/1/29.
  • S. D. Kitson, ‘Walter Henry Brierley’, YAJ, 29 (1929), 123–29; A. H. Thompson, ‘John Bilson, D. Litt, FSA’, YAJ, 36 (1947), 253–59.
  • W[illiam] B[rown], ‘William Thomas Lancaster FSA’, YAJ, 26 (1922), 153–54.
  • L. Butler, ‘Maurice Beresford, MA, D. Litt (Hon.), FBA (1920–2005)’, YAJ, 78 (2006), 243–45; G. Dyer, ‘Maurice Warwick Beresford (1920–85)’, DNB.
  • N. Gash, ‘(Anna) Mary Hawthorne Kitson Clark (1905–2005)’, DNB.
  • The quotation comes from the obituary of John Scott, YAJ, 30 (1931), 300.
  • YAS, Records of the Tykes’ Club, DD 22.
  • YAS, DD 22/1, minute book.
  • YAJ, 38 (1952), 416–18.
  • J. T. Clay, ‘Alexander Hamilton Thompson’, YAJ, 38 (1953), 266–68; J. C. Dickenson, ‘Alexander Hamilton Thompson (1873–1952)’, DNB, 54, pp. 401–02.
  • L. P. Wenham, ‘Charles Edwin Whiting’, YAJ, 38 (1954), 418–20.
  • C. Brooke, ‘Charles Clay, 1885–1978’, YAJ, 52 (1980), 1–18; C. S. A. Dobson, ‘Sir Charles Travis Clay (1885–1978)’, DNB, 11, pp. 962–63.
  • ‘Canon J. S. Purvis’, YAJ, 42 (1970), 520–22.
  • G. C. F. Forster, ‘Professor John Le Patourel, FBA, 1909–81’, YAJ, 54 (1982), 149–51; B. Dobson, ‘John Taylor (1925–2009)’, YAJ, 82 (2010), 389–90.
  • H. Ramm, ‘Dr E. A. Gee (1913–89)’, YAJ, 62 (1990), 199–200; R. M. Butler, ‘H. G. Ramm’, 64 (1992), 214–17; ‘Ronald Butler’, The Times, 12 Feb. 2012; ‘Richard Hall’, The Guardian, 13 Oct. 2011.
  • ‘Mr C. E. Hartley‘, YAJ, 46 (1974), 140; ‘R. J. A. Bunnett’, YAJ, 48 (1976), 147–48.
  • P. Davidson, ‘Dennis Brooke‘, YAJ, 73 (2001), 175; G. C. F. Forster, ‘Thomas David Mallinson OBE’, YAJ, 49 (1977), 141–42; R. Hartley, ‘E. T. Cowling’, YAJ, 58 (1986), 216; B. Vyner, ‘Raymond Hayes’, YAJ, 73 (2001), 177; R. Frost, ‘John Telford, 1926–98’, YAJ, 71 (1999), 255. The range of the Society’s holdings is handsomely displayed in the newly published book, The Yorkshire Archaeological Society: A Celebration of 150 Years of Collecting, ed. Kirsty McHugh (Leeds, 2013).
  • K. McHugh and B. Barber, ‘Yorkshire Archives and a League of Gentlemen: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1863–2013’, Archives and Records (forthcoming, 2013).
  • A. Hamilton Thompson, The Surtees Society, 1834–1934, Publications of the Surtees Society, 150 (1935), 74–75.
  • Chadwick, p. 6.
  • YAJ, 8 (1883), ii.
  • VCH Yorks., 1, p. xix; A. H. Thompson, ‘Thomas McCall Fallow’, YAJ, 21 (1911), 220–24.
  • YAJ, 1, Introduction, p. vi.
  • For an overview of the contents, see Revd H. Lawrance, Analytical Index to the Contents of the First Thirty Volumes of the Society’s Journal (Leeds, 1939); A. G. Foster, Analytical Index to the Contents of the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (Leeds, 1963); [J. Smirthwaite], ‘An Index to the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vols 1–52 (1870–1980) and to Certain Other Publications of the Society’, YAJ, 53 (1981), 163–84.
  • G. C. F. Forster, ‘The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volumes 1–50’, YAJ, 50 (1978), 1–5.
  • The Yorkshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825–1874), ed. L. Butler, YAS Record Series, 159 (2007).
  • YAJ, 15 (1898–99), 116–17; 23 (1915), 31–60; and see A. Richardson, ‘John Beddoe (1826–1911)’, DNB (2004), 4, pp. 753–54 (2004).
  • YAJ, 26 (1922), 1–92; see also I. A. Richmond, Huddersfield in Roman Times (Huddersfield, 1925), esp. pp. 27–48; J. K. T. Hunter and others, YAJ, 42 (1971), 74–97.
  • But see B. J. Awty, ‘French Immigrants and the Iron Industry in Sheffield’, and C. C. Aronsfeld, ‘German Jews in Nineteenth-century Bradford’, YAJ, 53 (1981), 51–56, 111–18.
  • East End, West End: The Face of Leeds during Urbanisation, 1684–1842, Publications of the Thoresby Society, vols lx and lxi, nos 131 and 132 (1988).
  • Articles on Bradford and Sheffield appear respectively in YAJ, 58 (1980) and 77 (2005).
  • John Edwards, the author of ‘The Cult of St Thomas of Lancaster and its Iconography’, YAJ, 64 (1992), 103–22; 67 (1995), 187–92.
  • Information about the publications of these bodies can readily be found on the Royal Historical Society website: http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/textandcalendars.php
  • For further information, see C. T. Clay, A Catalogue of the Publications of the Record Series, 1885–1946, with an Introductory Chapter on Its History, YAS Record Series, 113 (1948).
  • J. W. R. P[arker], ‘William Paley Baildon’, YAJ, 28 (1926), 105–06.
  • YAS Record Series, vols 10 and 13 (Selby), 25 and 30 (Pontefract), 66 (Monk Bretton), 80 (Tockwith), 87 and 90 (Sallay, modern name Sawley, now in Lancashire), and 92 (Healaugh Park).
  • YAS Record Series, 74.
  • J. Forester and A. C. Crawley, ‘The Corpus Christi Play at Wakefield: A Look at the Wakefield Burgess Court Records’; A. C. Crawley, J. Forester and J. Goodchild, ‘References to the Corpus Christi Play in the Wakefield Burgess Rolls: The Originals Rediscovered’, Leeds Studies in English, NS, vols vii (1974) and xix (1988) respectively; B. D. Palmer ‘’Townley Plays’ or ‘Wakefield Cycle’ Revisited’, Comparative Drama, 21 (1987–88), esp. pp. 323–35.
  • Clay, Publications of the YAS Record Series, p. xii.
  • YAS Record Series, 125 (1929); 132 (1932); 154 (2000).
  • YAS Record Series, 150 (1995).
  • YAS Record Series, 161 (2010).
  • W. Tait, ‘William Farrer’, English Hist. Rev., 40 (1925), 67–70; W. Tait, ‘William Farrer (1861–1924)’, DNB, 19, pp. 126–7.
  • H. H. E. Craster in English Hist. Rev, 51 (1936), p. 306.
  • YAS, MS 1189/1/3; 1/11.
  • C. Brooke, ‘Charles Clay, 1885–1978’, YAJ, 52 (1980), pp. 1–18.
  • Three Yorkshire Assize Rolls for the Reigns of King John and Henry III, YAS Record Series, 44 (1911); Deeds volumes 4–8, which are YAS Record Series volumes 65, 69, 76, 87 and 102.
  • English Hist. Rev., 68 (1953), 631–32.
  • Farrer’s manuscripts, acquired by the YAS in 1931, can be found in the YAS archives, MS 869 and MS 869 Additional. There are other materials of Farrer’s at MS 442/1/3, 962, 963 and MS 1189.
  • Charters of the Honour of Mowbray 1107–91, ed. D. E. Greenway, British Academy, Records of Economic and Social History, NS I (Oxford, 1972).
  • YAS, MS1189/1/3, memorandum, unsigned, but probably by the Hon. Sec., E. W. Crossley.
  • Commemoration, p. 143.
  • Select Pleas in Manorial and Other Seigniorial Courts, ed. F. W. Maitland, i, Selden Society, 2 (1889).
  • YAS Record Series, 36 (1906).
  • The Times, 13 Oct. 1933, p. 19.
  • The catalogue of the court rolls prepared by Sylvia Thomas identifies the rolls in this volume as 1312–13, and not 1313–14 as in the printed volume, and 1314–15 rather than 1315–16 as in the printed volume.
  • YAS Record Series, 57 (1917) and 78 (1936).
  • YAS Record Series, 109 (1944).
  • YAS Annual Report, 1974.
  • See the General Editor’s Preface to volume 1 (1977).
  • These include I. Kershaw, ‘The Great Famine and the Agrarian Crisis in England, 1315–22’, Past and Present, 59 (1973), 3–50, esp. pp. 43–45; S. A. Moorhouse, ‘Documentary Evidence for the Landscape of the Manor of Wakefield during the Middle Ages’, Landscape History, 1 (1979), 44–58; M. Stinson, ‘Assarting and Poverty in Early Fourteenth-century Yorkshire’, Landscape History, 5 (1983), 53–67; H. M. Jewell, ’Women at the Courts of the Manor of Wakefield, 1348–50’, Northern History, 26 (1990), 59–81.

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