The Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society has arranged another short series of summer lectures to be held online via Zoom during August. The lectures are free and open to all but require individual booking in advance. Details of each lecture is given below, with the booking information. The Zoom links for the lectures will be sent to all registrants a day or two before the event takes place.
Lecture 1
Thursday 1st August 2024 at 7.30 pm
Beyond 1190: the Jewish communities and their role in York's history
Dr Louise Hampson
If the history of the Jewish community in York is mentioned at all, it is usually in rightly hushed tones around the horror of the 1190 massacre at Clifford's Tower. But the stories of the community both before that fateful day and crucially after 1190, when a community was resettled here from Lincoln in the early 13th century, are much richer and more nuanced than just that one event and they deserve their place in the mainstream narrative of York's history. From the writings of international scholars of the 1180s based here in York, to the fashioning of York itself as the second city, the Jewish communities are right there at the heart of things. New research is uncovering more about the role of the community pre and post-1190, their cultural heritage and their centrality to York's story.
Dr Louise Hampson was head of Collections at York Minster for fourteen years where her interest in York's medieval Jewish community was sparked through their archival and material links with the Minster in the thirteenth-century. An archivist and medievalist by training, specialising in ecclesiastical heritage, and with a doctorate in Art History, Louise's career has spanned record offices, a cathedral and the University of York, where she is now deputy Director of The Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture in the History Department. Her current interest in the Jewish community was reignited by the recent Streetlife project where the Coney Street story proved to have a rich seam (see https://www.streetlifeyork.uk/).
To register for lecture 1 of the YAHS Summer Lecture Series please use the following link:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/yahs/t-xmooeva