📅 Upcoming Events
Lawnswood's Great War Stories
Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026
Speaker: Andrea Hetherington
Location: Zoom
Although Lawnswood is a cemetery in Leeds, an examination of a cemetery's gravestones can tell the whole story of the First World War beyond soldiers' names on a war memorial....
What Granny didn't want me to know and other stories
Date: Monday, 1 June 2026
Speaker: Steve Manning
Location: Zoom
Family stories can be great fun but they may not be universally welcomed. Particularly when they have been slightly embellished over time - or by the telling!...
Confessions of a Tapophile: From Curious Visitor to Compulsive Researcher
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026
Speaker: AWFHS Committee Member
Location: Zoom
Speaker Steve Miller: It always begins innocently enough — a quiet wander through a cemetery, a quick look at a headstone, maybe a photograph or two. Before you know it, you are decoding inscriptions, comparing burial registers, and wondering where...