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• VAG X feed - tweets from the national Vernacular Architecture Group

Recorded lectures and videos, podcasts and blogs

Recorded lectures and videos

• Medieval Brick Buildings. A talk by James Wright on 7 October 2021: the Mike Stillman Memorial Lecture.
• The Holme Valley in the Middle Ages. A recording of a talk by Peter Burton for Huddersfield Local History Society on 22 February 2021.
• Traditional Farm Buildings of the Yorkshire Dales. A talk by Jim Brightman for the Thorntol-le-Street History Group, held on 21 January 2021.
• Yorkshire East Riding Houses and the Hearth Tax. A recording of a talk to the Vernacular Architecture Group on 9 January 2021 by David Neave.
• Uncovering secrets in Herefordshire buildings. A recording of a talk by Duncan James.
• ".. the said house of William Pawlen new made..." - medieval domestic architecture in Scarborough. A recording of a fascinating talk by Chris Hall, for Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society.
• A tour of Ayton Castle. An interesting tour of the building and its landscape with Chris Hall, Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society.
• Researching your house history. A recording of an 'Armchair Event' organised by Manchester University Press on Thursday 11 June 2020, with Deborah Sugg Ryan, Melanie Backe-Hansen and Nick Barratt.
• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales YouTube Channel - some wonderful animated reconstructions of Welsh houses.
• A series of three enjoyable and informative videos by architectural historial Malcolm Airs, focusing on Dorchester-on-Thames but also relevant to other geographical areas:
  • The hidden meaning of date stones on the buildings of Dorchester-on-Thames
  • A history of windows: evil spirits, fire, form and function
  • A history of building materials
• Medieval Buildings - short videos from the Hull and East Riding Museum:
  • Part 1: Building with wood (5 minutes)
  • Part 2: The Queen Street Timbers (5 minutes)
  • Part 3: The George Yard Timbers (3 minutes)
  • Wattle and Daub Demonstration (21 minutes)
• Unlocking Historic Buildings. A short online learning module from Historic England.
• Reading and writing historic buildings. An online training session with Matt Bristow, Rebecca Lane and David Clark.
• Analysing historic settlement. An online training session with Susan Oosthuizen and Angus Winchester.
• Line and Wash. A three-part drawing and painting course with John Harrison provided by Stories in Stone, using a scene of Yorkshire buildings to demonstrate techniques - approximately 25 minutes for each part.
• Vernacular Architecture Group. Recordings of various online talks are available.
• The CBA Yorkshire Video Archive. A collection of recorded talks from CBA Yorkshire.
• Leeds Civic Trust. Recordings of various online talks.

Podcasts and audio books

• Ritual Building Protection: The Folklore Podcast with James Wright.
• Medieval Graffiti - podcast with Matthew Champion. A Medievalists.net podcast June 2020.
• Medieval Graffiti - podcast with Matthew Champion. The Sense of Place podcast July 2020.
• The History of Seaside Resorts at the Yorkshire Coast. A podcast by George Sheeran.

Blogs

• North Yorkshire County Record Office blog. Stories from North Yorkshire's archive collections.
• Bricks and Brickmaking in and near Haxby in the Vale of York. A blog provided by Dr Jon Kenny, based on research by Patsy Pendegrass and John Nottingham.
• How might Cawood Castle have looked? A castle, a palace or a bit of both? A blog by Dr Jon Kenny.
• Slingsby Castle: 3D reconstruction illuminating the lost. A digital reconstruction of the Jacobean manor house at Slingsby Castle, by Bethany Watrous of Experience Heritage.

TV programmes

• A House through Time. A BBC Two series tracing the past residents of a particular house. Previous episodes looked at houses in Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol and Leeds.
• If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home. BBC series with Lucy Worsley.
• Villages by the Sea. Yorkshire villages featured are Robin Hood's Bay, Staithes, Flamborough and Runswick Bay.
• The History of Britain in 100 Homes. Previously on Channel 4, now available on Apple TV.
• Travels with Pevsner: North Riding. Available on YouTube, 50 minutes, 1997. Film quality not wonderful, but interesting content.

Courses, conferences, seminars and other live events

• Triskele Heritage. Occasional online lectures by James Wright.
• SAHGB. Online seminars from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
• The Georgian Group. Online lectures.
• Historic England. Free webinars.

Books

• Wensleydale. The classic 1936 book by Ella Pontefract and Marie Hartley, published as an audiobook by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and Dales Countryside Museum, and available for listening to online.
• The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire by Louis Ambler (1913). Browse through a digitised copy online, or download a pdf version, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
• Recommended reading - work your way through the Vernacular Architecture Group's recommendations.

Databases, maps and other resources

• Online information resources for building recording - have a look at the Vernacular Architecture Group's suggestions to brush up virtually on your recording skills until we can get out in the field again.
• Vernacular Architecture Group map - interactive map showing cruck buildings, dendro-dated buildings and Wealden houses.
• Datestones on old buildings in Craven, Bowland and Upper Wharfedale. Explore the datestones of this part of Yorkshire, courtesy of the North Craven Heritage Trust. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for locations and images for almost 500 datestones.
• Spy. Explore the online maps provided by the National Library of Scotland - try out the Spy function (zoom in and out, and change the underlying map - it's totally addictive!).
• Who lived in my house? See who occupied your house in 1939 via the Find my Past website.
• Yorkshire Historic Dictionary. Find the places where regional terms have been used through history.
• East Riding Museums Past Exhibitions. A collection of past exhibitions, in pdf format, of life in the East Riding, including one on vernacular architecture.

Games

• Crossword puzzle - a puzzle of vernacular building terms to print out and complete
• Wordsearch puzzle - a puzzle of vernacular building vocabulary to print out and complete
• Online jigsaws: Vernacular Architecture of Yorkshire.

YVBSG Members' Area (requires members' login)

• Copies of articles from back issues of our journal, Yorkshire Buildings. If you don't have the printed copies, most articles are available here.
• Online copies of YVBSG reports. Have a browse through the YVBSG reports which are now available online.