News
A Conference recognises the work of Aerial Photographer Derrick Riley
Wednesday 12 March 2025
A day conference, jointly organised by the Hunter Archaeological Society, the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society and the University of Sheffield.
Sheffield Heritage Fair 2025
Monday 27 January 2025
Sheffield Heritage Fair took place again on 25 and 26 January and we were part of the action; over the two days more than 1,500 people came to find out...
Joseph Hunter’s life story published
Monday 1 January 2024
One volume of the Hunter Archaeological Society Transactions dating back to our Centenary year 2012 has been published as Volume 26(2), just a bit late in 2023! The volume contains life stories of a...
A Generous Donation of Hunter’s ‘South Yorkshire’
Wednesday 1 November 2023
Recently we were generously offered a newly bound copy of Joseph Hunter’s second large work ‘South Yorkshire: History of the Deanery of Doncaster‘, with Hunter's own handwritten annotations....
New President and new Venue for 2022
Saturday 10 December 2022
For our 2022 programme of talks we moved to a meeting room in the Showroom Cinema on Paternoster Row in Sheffield, close to the station and bus routes, and with...
Freeman College students create a new Badge of Office
Monday 30 December 2013
On December 11 2013, the Hunter president and several society members were formally presented with a new Badge of Office created for the Centenary by the students of Freeman College....
Glass Slides Project
Thursday 1 August 2013
Following a customer enquiry in Sheffield Local Studies Library, it came to light that a collection of several hundred glass slides in the basement of Sheffield Central Library had been...
Plaque of Joseph Hunter has been installed in Local Studies Library
Monday 8 April 2013
Some visitors to the old Local Studies Library in Sheffield may recall a bronze plaque on the wall to the right of the entrance. This was of Joseph Hunter, and...
Hunter Centenary 2012
Monday 14 May 2012
The Hunter Archaeological Society held its first meeting in May 1912 and we were keen to celebrate our first 100 years. Thanks to a generous Lottery grant, we were able...
Hunter Archaeological Society wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for its Centenary
Monday 16 January 2012
The Hunter Archaeological Society received £36,500 in 2012 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire: ‘Lives in the Past, Discoverers for...