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 features speakers who have a story to tell about some aspect of the city, its inhabitants or stories revealed from the archives. 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: 

• Tuesday 14th February, 12.30-13.30
  Charles Staniland Wake - A Victorian Mystery Solved by Jill Crowther 
• Tuesday 13th March, 12.30-13.30
  From Hull to Ypres: Mud, blood and fruitless Flanders offensives by John Grosser  
• Tuesday 10th April, Antiquarians, Scandals and Frauds: Recording Hull’s History by Paul Leaver 
• Tuesday 8th May, Breakfast with Bonaparte, Events in the Royal Naval Career of Vice Admiral Sir Henry Hotham KCB (1777-1833) by Dr. Martin L Robson
• Tuesday 12th June, Abolitionist Experimentation in Sierra Leone: Conflicting Ideas and Expectations by Professor Suzanne Schwarz
• Tuesday 10th July, Titanic: THE Local Connection by Sheila Dixon

If you are interested in talking about your research in a topic or subject that is of local interest please contact us