Lunchtime Club

The Hull Lunchtime Club is dedicated to the story of "Hull and its people"

The club meets on the second Tuesday of each month 12:30pm to 1:30pm at the Hull History Centre.

Admission is free and is entertained by speakers who have a story to tell about some aspect of the city and its inhabitants. Since its first meeting in 1998, over 100 topics have been explored.

Past themes have been:

• 'the villages of Hull - the old settlements such as Sculcoates, Drypool and Sutton that have now been absorbed into the city
• the people of Hull - famous citizens such as Andrew Marvel and Amy Johnson or well-known families such as the Sykes and the Thorntons
• the buildings of Hull - schools, workhouses, orphanages

Speakers are usually local people who have made a study of one particular aspect of Hull's history, with occasional visits from national or regional experts.

Forthcoming talks:

• Tue 13th July Escapes from the Noose - the History of Reprieves and Pardons by Stephen Wade 
• Tue 10 August Winifred Holtby: Writing the East Riding Between the Wars by Lisa Regan
• Tue 14 September 6KH, the BBC Hull Relay Station

  by Peter Lord

• Tue 12 October The Western Synagogue, from creation

  to near dereliction and its rebirth by Doug Smelt

• Tue 9 November Saving a century: How the Victorian Society helped us love Victorian architecture by Dr. Ian Dungavell

• Tue 14 December Hull Civic Society by John Netherwood

For further details contact:
David Smith, Senior Local Studies Librarian
Tel: 01482 317505
Email: david.smith@hullcc.gov.uk