Dr. Murdoch was a Scottish medical doctor who settled in Hull in 1896 and galvanised the suffrage campaign in Hull and East Yorkshire.  Cecile Oxaal explores her background, the suffrage campaign in Hull and East Yorkshire, during which the Pankhursts visited the City, and Dr Murdoch's championing of other social reforms for women, children and the... Read more...

Dr. Murdoch was a Scottish medical doctor who settled in Hull in 1896 and galvanised the suffrage campaign in Hull and East Yorkshire, as part of the national movement for women to be granted the right to vote in parliamentary elections. This talk by Cecile Oxaal is part of the Civic Society 2022 Programme and... Read more...

    Ted’s biographer, Monty Martin, gives an illustrated presentation of the eventful artistic and gregarious life of novelist, Ted Lewis, including how and why he came to write Get Carter, and his other eight novels as well as is graphic art and jazz music. No fee but a contribution to the Charity would be... Read more...

A Practical Lecture and Exhibition by an Agent of Mr. Wilderspin Esq; Inventor of the Infant & Training Systems of Education. The forty minutes demonstration commences outside in the Playground with an opportunity afterwards in the Schoolroom for questions about his plans for giving children religious, moral, mental, and physical education. Free to members of... Read more...

    Ted Lewis (1940-1982) was an artist, illustrator and writer.  He is best known for creating the character Jack Carter, the protagonist in the 1971 cult film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. Ted’s biographer, Monty Martin, will conduct a small group around the Barton Town Centre buildings that featured in the novelist’s life and... Read more...

In 1747 John Wesley wrote about the curing properties of garden plants, complementing his concerns for people’s spiritual life with practical help for their physical wellbeing. In the setting of Samuel Wilderspin’s playground garden Catherine Fordham explains Wesley’s ideas and the curing properties of plants is a Physic Garden.

Ted Lewis’s biographer, Monty Martin, will conduct a small group to the Old Cement Works on the Humber Bank which featured in the original novel of Get Carter featured in the novelist’s life and writings. We will also visit the place where Ted painted his iconic views of the Humber and provide a copy of... Read more...

A presentation and special screening of this classic gangster film based on the novel by Barton’s Ted Lewis, starring Michael Caine. Optional - bring your own buffet followed at 2pm with a video explanation of his work by Director of the film, Mike Hodges. No fee but a contribution to the Charity would be welcome.... Read more...

Waterside, was a self-sufficient and tightly-knit community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this distinctive part of the town was the Haven tributary, flowing into the Humber. This walk explores the traces of the area’s busy industrial and commercial activity which helped shape the town. Anticipated duration: 60-90 minutes.  Meet... Read more...

A special screening with a local flavour of the Barbier directed The Serpent which was based on the Barton and Hull novel, Plender, Ted Lewis’s third novel. Ted’s boyhood friend, Nick Turner, will present the background and there will be a commentary about how the film reflects the novel. No fee but a contribution to... Read more...

    Ted Lewis (1940-1982) was an artist, illustrator and writer.  He is best known for creating the character Jack Carter, the protagonist in the 1971 cult film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. Ted’s biographer, Monty Martin, will conduct a small group around the Barton Town Centre buildings that featured in the novelist’s life and... Read more...

A Practical Lecture and Exhibition by an Agent of Mr. Wilderspin Esq; Inventor of the Infant & Training Systems of Education. The forty minutes demonstration commences outside in the Playground with an opportunity afterwards in the Schoolroom for questions about his plans for giving children religious, moral, mental, and physical education. Free to members of... Read more...