Friends Lecture Series 2025-26

Our Lecture Series

The Friends of Malton Museum lecture series runs from September until April, with a break in December.

All lectures begin at 7.30 pm.

Guests are very welcome – guest admission is £5.00 per lecture. Entry is free for members.

Or, even better, see our Friends of Malton Museum page for membership details

For more information please email us at [email protected]


Please note our new location:

The new classrooms in The Library, the West Wing,  Malton School, Middlecave Road, Malton. YO17 7NH.

Enter the OUT gate of the WEST WING, Malton School.

Parking space is to the left of this building.


View a copy of our 2025 lecture programme here!


Coming up...

Forthcoming lectures

15 October 25 Vic Jay – The Mallon Crew. A biography of a Lancaster crew. How seven men from New Zealand, Australia, Canada and England volunteered for the Air Force. How chance brought them together to fly a Lancaster and what happened to them.

19 November 25 David Mitchell – The History of Thornton Dale in Post Cards

21 January 26 Simon Green – Balmorality Queen Victoria and Scotland. A Scottish theme for Burns Night.

18 February 26 Rachel Carmichael, former UK medicines manufacturing inspector –  What’s behind the pack? A look at the historic events (mostly avoidable human disasters) that have led to the controls in place on modern medicines

18 March 26 Dr Ron Pickering –  The Art and Design of the Postage Stamp

19 April 26 Fossils in t’Hills – Palaeontology local to Malton

20 May 26 AGM – all welcome!

Annual General Meeting

We also have a Friends Annual General Meeting and social evening, usually held in May, which always provides a good opportunity to socialise, hear about the Friends’ activities and contributions to the museum, all over a glass of wine and nibbles.

Open to all, new members especially welcome.

The Friends AGM takes place in the Library in the West Wing of Malton School.