Name: Yorkshire Heritage Summit - Symposium
Start: 2026-03-25T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Barnsley Civic

Speaker after speaker on topics related to Barnsley and Yorkshire heritage with insightful presentations to educate and inform.
About this Event

Our Yorkshire Heritage, our Yorkshire Future

10. 00 Welcome

10.05 Introduction to the speakers and outline of Symposium Colin Speakman Heritage Lead The Yorkshire Society

10.10: Barnsley’s Heritage Action Zones: a creative and community engagement focused approach to heritage regeneration Tegwen Roberts Heritage Development Manager, Wakefield Council

10.40: How Yorkshire’s History and Cultural Heritage has made us who we are Professor Richard Morris, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Huddersfield and author of Yorkshire: A Lyrical History.

11.10: How Yorkshire’s Natural Heritage has made us who we are - Rachael Bice, CEO Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

11.40: Plenary Session – speaker panel.

12 noon Symposium ends.