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What's On

Welcome to the Hall’s What’s On page – part events diary, and part online booking system.

Our 2025 Events booking system is now live! Book your tickets now!

Please note: if visiting the Hall there is no need to print out your tickets – let’s save some paper – we will have a list of names on the door, so just tell us who you are and we will “tick you off”.

May

The Dales Ensemble play the Beethoven, Schubert Quintet and Puccini. Saturday 10 May at 7:30pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£20.00

The Dales Ensemble, led by Dr Richard Fletcher, return to Markenfield Hall to perform a programme of Ian Curteis’ favourite pieces, played in the Great Hall that he so lovingly restored: Schubert’s great String Quintet in C Major, D956, and Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Minor Op18 No 4 and Puccini Chrisantemi.

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The Dales Ensemble play the Kreutzer Sonata, Schubert Quintet. Saturday 10 May at 7:30pm

£25.00

The Dales Ensemble, led by Dr Richard Fletcher, return to Markenfield Hall to perform a programme of Ian Curteis’ favourite pieces, played in the Great Hall that he so lovingly restored: Schubert’s great String Quintet in C Major, D956, and Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, specially arranged for String Ensemble and seldom heard in this way.

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Melita Thomas on 1,000 Tudor People. Friday 30 May at 7:30pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£20.00

Co-founder of the Tudor Times website, author and historian; Melita Thomas recently published 1,000 Tudor People – described by Alison Weir as “an encyclopaedic work… the gold standard in Tudor scholarship”. Covering monarchs and magicians, politicians and philosophers, kings, criminals, musicians, and gardeners; join Melita to learn about (some of the) one thousand men and women from all walks of life who flourished during the Tudor period.

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Melita Thomas on 1,000 Tudor People. Friday 30 May at 7:30pm

£25.00

Co-founder of the Tudor Times website, author and historian; Melita Thomas recently published 1,000 Tudor People – described by Alison Weir as “an encyclopaedic work… the gold standard in Tudor scholarship”. Covering monarchs and magicians, politicians and philosophers, kings, criminals, musicians, and gardeners; join Melita to learn about (some of the) one thousand men and women from all walks of life who flourished during the Tudor period.

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June

Felipe Fernadez-Armesto on Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan. Friday 6 June at 7:30pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£20.00

For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. In his book Straits, Felipe turns that belief on its head; instead offering up a stranger, darker and even more compelling narrative than the fictional version that has been glorified for half a millennium. Straits untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero.

Drawing on extensive and meticulous research into Magellan’s life, his character and his ill-fated voyage, Filipe will prove that Magellan did not attempt – much less accomplish – a journey around the globe; and that in his own lifetime, the explorer was abhorred as a traitor, reviled as a tyrant and dismissed as a failure.

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Felipe Fernadez-Armesto on Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan. Friday 6 June at 7:30pm

£25.00

For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. In his book Straits, Felipe turns that belief on its head; instead offering up a stranger, darker and even more compelling narrative than the fictional version that has been glorified for half a millennium. Straits untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero.

Drawing on extensive and meticulous research into Magellan’s life, his character and his ill-fated voyage, Filipe will prove that Magellan did not attempt – much less accomplish – a journey around the globe; and that in his own lifetime, the explorer was abhorred as a traitor, reviled as a tyrant and dismissed as a failure.

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Jane Collier is Mary Queen of Scots. Friday 13 June at 3:00pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£25.00

We are delighted to present an evening with Jane Collier of the Marie Stuart Society, a re-enactor who will give an intimate view of this gifted, charming, fun loving and intensely loyal Queen, her stay at nearby Castle Bolton still a time of hope for her, and her descent into despair during her 19 years of illegal imprisonment before the inevitable tragic end.

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Jane Collier is Mary Queen of Scots. Friday 13 June at 3:00pm

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We are delighted to present an evening with Jane Collier of the Marie Stuart Society, a re-enactor who will give an intimate view of this gifted, charming, fun loving and intensely loyal Queen, her stay at nearby Castle Bolton still a time of hope for her, and her descent into despair during her 19 years of illegal imprisonment before the inevitable tragic end.

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Visit to Castle Bolton. Wednesday 18 June at 2:00pm – FRIENDS TICKETS (OWN TRANSPORT)

£25.00

Bolton Castle was built by Sir Richard le Scrope, Lord Chancellor of England to Richard II. Their licence to crenelate was granted in 1379. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned at the Castle between 1568 and 1569 following her defeat in Scotland, and seemingly posing a threat to Queen Elizabeth I.

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Visit to Castle Bolton. Wednesday 18 June at 2:00pm (OWN TRANSPORT)

£30.00

Bolton Castle was built by Sir Richard le Scrope, Lord Chancellor of England to Richard II. Their licence to crenelate was granted in 1379. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned at the Castle between 1568 and 1569 following her defeat in Scotland, and seemingly posing a threat to Queen Elizabeth I.

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William Motley on Oriental Ostentation: The Grantley Armorial China. Friday 20 June at 7:30pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£20.00

In the 18th century anyone who was anyone had to have a Chinese porcelain dinner service emblazoned with their coat of arms as a display of wealth, armigerous status and connection to the wider world. Scholar, lecturer and author Will Motley will examine the armorial porcelain at Markenfield, the long, expensive and sometimes hazardous process by which this porcelain was ordered, made in China and finally delivered to its owner, Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, (1716-1789).

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William Motley on Oriental Ostentation: The Grantley Armorial China. Friday 20 June at 7:30pm

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In the 18th century anyone who was anyone had to have a Chinese porcelain dinner service emblazoned with their coat of arms as a display of wealth, armigerous status and connection to the wider world. Scholar, lecturer and author Will Motley will examine the armorial porcelain at Markenfield, the long, expensive and sometimes hazardous process by which this porcelain was ordered, made in China and finally delivered to its owner, Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, (1716-1789).

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David Alexander on Yorkshire Prints. Friday 27 June at 3:00pm – FRIENDS TICKET

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Honorary Keeper of British Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, David Alexander will spend the afternoon discussing how Yorkshire’s rolling hills, rugged moorland and spectacular architecture were depicted by printmakers; and how York became the centre for the production of lithographs in the nineteenth century, all illustrated by his own collection of delightful prints.

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David Alexander on Yorkshire Prints. Friday 27 June at 3:00pm

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Honorary Keeper of British Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, David Alexander will spend the afternoon discussing how Yorkshire’s rolling hills, rugged moorland and spectacular architecture were depicted by printmakers; and how York became the centre for the production of lithographs in the nineteenth century, all illustrated by his own collection of delightful prints.

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July

Philippa Langley on The Princes in the Tower. Thursday 3 July at 3:00pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£25.00

Philippa Langley MBE is an historian, writer and film producer best known for leading the Looking for Richard Project, in which she conceived, facilitated and commissioned the discovery and re-burial of King Richard III.

Her latest work – The Missing Princes Project – aims to undertake new research into the enduring mystery of the disappearance of the sons of Edward IV, more commonly referred to as the ‘Princes in the Tower’. It is currently believed that Edward V (12) and Richard, Duke of York (9) disappeared sometime during 1483-4. She has even unearthed a previously-unknown Markenfield connection.

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Philippa Langley on The Princes in the Tower. Thursday 3 July at 3:00pm

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Philippa Langley MBE is an historian, writer and film producer best known for leading the Looking for Richard Project, in which she conceived, facilitated and commissioned the discovery and re-burial of King Richard III.

Her latest work – The Missing Princes Project – aims to undertake new research into the enduring mystery of the disappearance of the sons of Edward IV, more commonly referred to as the ‘Princes in the Tower’. It is currently believed that Edward V (12) and Richard, Duke of York (9) disappeared sometime during 1483-4. She has even unearthed a previously-unknown Markenfield connection.

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August

Fran Baker on Chatsworth and the Caroline Norton Connection. Friday 8 August at 3:00pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£20.00

When the search for a Caroline Norton portrait led The Friends to the private collection at Chatsworth House, little did they know of the research avenue that was about to open up before them. Join Chatsworth’s Archivist Fran Baker, exploring the friendship between the 5th Duke of Devonshire and Markenfield’s Caroline Norton, their extensive archive of letters (transcribed by a team of the Hall’s volunteers) and how 5th Duke could just have easily been embroiled in the ‘Criminal Conversation’ Trial as Lord Melbourne.

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Fran Baker on Chatsworth and the Caroline Norton Connection. Friday 8 August at 3:00pm

£25.00

When the search for a Caroline Norton portrait led The Friends to the private collection at Chatsworth House, little did they know of the research avenue that was about to open up before them. Join Chatsworth’s Archivist Fran Baker, exploring the friendship between the 5th Duke of Devonshire and Markenfield’s Caroline Norton, their extensive archive of letters (transcribed by a team of the Hall’s volunteers) and how 5th Duke could just have easily been embroiled in the ‘Criminal Conversation’ Trial as Lord Melbourne.

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September

Study Day with Cristina Figueredo: Eleanor of Aquitaine. Wednesday 24 September from 10:00am – FRIENDS TICKET

£30.00

Eleanor was one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she would go onto become queen-consort of France and later queen of England. Despite being a woman, Eleanor was heavily involved in the politics of the day, which was highly unusual for the time.

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Study Day with Dr Cristina Figueredo: Eleanor of Aquitaine. Wednesday 24 September from 10:00am

£35.00

Eleanor was one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she would go onto become queen-consort of France and later queen of England. Despite being a woman, Eleanor was heavily involved in the politics of the day, which was highly unusual for the time.

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October

John Dike on Robert Markenfield and Prince Edward. Friday 3 October at 7:30pm – FRIENDS TICKET

£20.00

Back in 2021, we were somewhat amazed when we started to get emails from people asking if we knew Markenfield was in the national papers – we did not. The man responsible for the Hall’s several weeks of fame was John Dike, who leads Philippa Langley’s Missing Princes Project team in Devon.

This talk will shed further light on John’s research methods, his finding and whether he believed Robert Markenfield really could have been part of one of history’s greatest mysteries.

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John Dike on Robert Markenfield and Prince Edward. Friday 3 October at 7:30pm

£25.00

Back in 2021, we were somewhat amazed when we started to get emails from people asking if we knew Markenfield was in the national papers – we did not. The man responsible for the Hall’s several weeks of fame was John Dike, who leads Philippa Langley’s Missing Princes Project team in Devon.

This talk will shed further light on John’s research methods, his finding and whether he believed Robert Markenfield really could have been part of one of history’s greatest mysteries.

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November

November Event (Holy Trinity, Ripon) 

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