Tag: Hull History Centre

Joey Shuker, Hull History Centre Conservator 1 November, 10am-12pm Free, all welcome. Children must be accompanied by an appropriate adult. Join us for this workshop where you will learn how to make paper crafts using old maps and books. Paper crafts that will be available are 3D stars from old maps, origami boxes, book page Christmas […]

Free, all welcome Travel back to 1969 to find out why a high-tech crossing that joined Hull to Grimsby only lasted a year. This talk will explore the origins of the two companies running the services and why it inevitably fell into decline after such a short period of time.

In August 1984 Philip Larkin wrote to his friend, Hull musician, artist and publisher, Ted Tarling, to thank him for the gift of one of his paintings. Larkin described Tarling’s style as a ‘meticulous melancholy’ which captured life as he himself saw it. Inspired by their friendship, Hull History Centre and The Philip Larkin Society […]

Free, all welcome. Children must be accompanied by an appropriate adult. Come and build with Lego blocks. All materials provided. What will you build… perhaps your favourite castle, or maybe your favourite old building in Hull?

Allowing the fishing industry and the docks to expand into national and global markets, the railway played a key role in Hull’s development into an industrial and maritime powerhouse. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of modern rail, Hull History Centre will be hosting a special exhibition which will explore the history of the railway in […]