Richard Morris’s recent and widely-acclaimed book “Yorkshire” weaves history, family stories, travelogue and ecology to explore how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape, in literature, legend and as an idea. In this talk Richard will explain how and why the book was written and discuss the influences on its shape.

Our speaker Richard Morris is Emeritus professor of archaeology, University of Huddersfield and began his archaeological career on the excavations under York Minster in the early 1970s. Since then he has taught at the University of York, directed the Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds, and been director of the Council for British Archaeology.