| 2025 Programme |
| 27th Jan 2025 | Richard Hird | Playing in the New Year with Father Smith - The Durham Cathedral Organ 1686-1873. |
| 24th Feb 2025 | John Culine | The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain. |
| 24th Mar 2025 | Stephen Livingstone | Climbing Everest with Bentley Beetham of Barnard Castle. |
| 28th Apr 2025 | Caroline Smith | The Portable Antiquities Scheme (Durham University Archaeology Dept.). |
| 19th May 2025 | Geoff Harrison | Letters to a Soldier (at Brancepeth Camp in WW2). |
| 26th Jun 2025 | | Thursday - Visit to Brancepeth Castle. |
| 28th Jul 2025 | Garry Stout | Wood View in Shincliffe - a Terrace Through Time. |
| 7th Aug 2025 | 10:15-11:45 | TUD WALK - a walk round the village green starting at St David's Church Hall. |
| 22nd Sep 2025 | Ross Wilkinson | An Introduction to Durham University Oriental Museum. |
| 27th Oct 2025 | AGM + Chris Lloyd | Four Scandals and a Gooseberry. |
| 24th Nov 2025 | Gordon Henderson | What the Romans Did For Us. |
| 15th Dec 2025 | Christmas Social | Black Horse, Tudhoe. |
| 2024 Programme |
| 22nd Jan 2024 | Keith Simpson | Durham Castles. |
| 26th Feb 2024 | Prof. Christopher Gerrard | The archaeology of earthquakes in the Middle Ages. What happens when disaster strikes? |
| 25th Mar 2024 | Dr Frederick Smith | The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion of 1882. |
| 22nd Apr 2024 | David Butler | "A Plan so replete with advantages...." - The Building of Durham's North Road. |
| 20th May 2024 | Carolyn Ball | The Story - moving 900 years of archives. |
| 12th Jun 2024 | | Auckland Park - Afternoon Site Visit to view most recent archaeological investigations. |
| 24th Jun 2024 | Caroline Hardie | The Stockton & Darlington Railway, 199 years and counting. |
| 22nd Jul 2024 | Gordon Henderson | Evening Site Visit to Binchester Roman Fort to view most recent archaeological investigations. |
| 23rd Sep 2024 | Martin Roberts | Historic Bridges of Durham. |
| 28th Oct 2024 | AGM + Dr John Banham | Our Waterloo. - 1815 Durham had its own crisis to deal with - a banking collapse. |
| 25th Nov 2024 | George Nairn | A postcard trip down the River Wear - from source to sea. |
| 9th Dec 2024 | Christmas Social | Black Horse, Tudhoe. |
| 2023 Programme |
| 23rd Jan 2023 | Bob Fleming | Memories of growing up in Spennymoor. |
| 27th Feb 2023 | Prof. Christopher Gerrard | Archaeological discoveries at Auckland Castle. |
| 27th Mar 2023 | Dr Tony Nicholson | Cleveland's C18th Hellfire Club. |
| 24th Apr 2023 | Keith Simpson | Raby through the Ages. |
| 22nd May 2023 | Richard Pears | Building Belles. |
| 20th Jun 2023 | Keith Simpson (senior guide) | Raby Castle & Gardens. |
| 24th Jul 2023 | Dr David Petts | Lindisfarne - an archaeological treasure house. |
| 25th Sep 2023 | Gordon Henderson | Progress at Binchester Roman Fort. |
| 23rd Oct 2023 | AGM | AGM + Professor Sarah Semple report and Yeavering. |
| 27th Nov 2023 | Sue Snowdon | His Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for County Durham - The Life and Role of the Lord Lieutenant. |
| 18th Dec 2023 | Christmas Social | Black Horse, Tudhoe. |
| 2022 Programme |
| 24th Jan 2022 | Michael Richardson | Durham City from Old Photographs. |
| 28th Feb 2022 | John Yeomans | The Old County Durham Coastline Today |
| 28th Mar 2022 | Martin Roberts | Second Revision of Pevsner’s ‘The Buildings of County Durham’ |
| 25th Apr 2022 | Miles Hamilton | Tudhoe's Pat Tunney - A rugby career & life. |
| 23rd May 2022 | Philip Curtis | North East Life in the 1950s. |
| 27th Jun 2022 | Peter Woods | The Salty History of NE Yorkshire - starting in Co. Durham. |
| 25th Jul 2022 | Summer Outing | A Guided Walk along the Newcastle Quayside with Freda Thompson starting at 5.30pm. |
| 26th Sep 2022 | Freda Thompson | Tales of the River Tyne. |
| 24th Oct 2022 | AGM | AGM + Mike Thornton - Cornish, Lowry and the Stone Gallery. |
| 28th Nov 2022 | Chris Lloyd | Lewis Carroll - The Croft Connection. |
| 12th Dec 2022 | Christmas Social | Black Horse 7.30pm. |
| 2021 Programme |
| 14th Aug 2021 | Walk at 2pm | To examine selected sites of potential historic landscape &/or archaeological interest around Tudhoe. |
| 27th Sep 2021 | Tony Smith | County Hall archives. |
| 25th Oct 2021 | AGM | AGM + Talk by Prof. Sarah Semple, introducing the proposed joint project with Durham University's Dept. of Archaeology. |
| 22nd Nov 2021 | Dr Tony Nicholson | Secrets of the Attic Part 2 - The Vile Woman. |
| 20th Dec 2021 | Christmas Social | The Black Horse Tudhoe, 7pm for 7.30pm. |
| 2020 Programme |
| 27th Jan 2020 | Michael Richardson | Lost Durham. |
| 24th Feb 2020 | Robin MacKay | The History of Durham Carpets. |
| 2019 Programme |
| 28th Jan 2019 | Peter Barron | Dad at Large. |
| 25th Feb 2019 | Angela Thomas (Curator) | Bishop Auckland's Mining Art Gallery. |
| 25th Mar 2019 | Martin Roberts | Kynff & Kip in Cleveland. |
| 29th Apr 2019 | Gary Bankhead | The Durham River Wear Assemblage . |
| 20th May 2019 | John Banham | Behind the Lines - The Peace. Looking again at our film in the context of Spennymoor in 1919. |
| 24th Jun 2019 | Evening Visit | Old Park, Byers Green with Martin Roberts. |
| 22nd Jul 2019 | Dr Tony Nicholson | Secrets of the Attic - Brotton House, near Saltburn. |
| 23rd Sep 2019 | Dr Andrew Millard | The Scottish Prisoners from the Battle of Dunbar 1650. |
| 28th Oct 2019 | AGM & David Butler | Turnpike Roads round Spennymoor. |
| 25th Nov 2019 | Mike Thornton | Norman Cornish's Centenary. |
| 9th Dec 2019 | Christmas Social | Black Horse, Tudhoe7.00pm for 7.30 |
| 2018 Programme |
| 22nd Jan 2018 | John Yeomans | Bishop Auckland in Photographs. |
| 26th Feb 2018 | Gemma Stevenson | Beamish's 1950s Projects. |
| 26th Mar 2018 | Martin Roberts | Old Park. |
| 23rd Apr 2018 | Naomi Beeley & Brian Laverick | The DLI Collection at Spennymoor. |
| 21st May 2018 | Chris Lloyd | A Year in Darlo. |
| 9th Jun 2018 | Summer Visit | Scarborough : St Martin’s Church & the Castle. |
| 25th Jun 2018 | Gordon Henderson | A Roman Update. |
| 23rd Jul 2018 | Evening Visit | Biddick Hall & Gardens. |
| 24th Sep 2018 | Christopher Wright | Have you seen the Mona Lisa? |
| 22nd Oct 2018 | AGM & Alison Hodgson | Sedgefield in Victorian Times. |
| 26th Nov 2018 | Alastair Fraser | The Germans on the Somme 1914-1916. |
| 17th Dec 2018 | Christmas Social | Venue & Time to be confirmed. |
| 2017 Programme |
| 23rd Jan 2017 | Jack Inch | Scratching the Earth's Crust. |
| 27th Feb 2017 | Mike Thornton | People & Places, The Norman Cornish sketch books. |
| 27th Mar 2017 | Arthur Dodds | A History of Espionage. |
| 24th Apr 2017 | Peter Barron | Cloudy, Rain Later. |
| 22nd May 2017 | Chris Ruskin | The Lost Farms of Weardale. |
| 14th Jun 2017 | Summer Visit | Holker Hall and Carmel Priory, Cumbria. |
| 26th Jun 2017 | John Grundy | Stones and Saints - the tangible and intangible pleasures of Durham. |
| 24th Jul 2017 | Margaret Hedley | Nineteenth Century Pit Women of Durham. |
| 25th Sep 2017 | John Banham | Behind the Lines: A Great War Nurse and the Fight for Survival. |
| 23rd Oct 2017 | AGM & Alison Hodgson | Poverty in Britain through the ages. |
| 27th Nov 2017 | Alastair Fraser | "Hopping the Bags" 33 Battalion Australian Imperial Force - an Australian battalion in the battle of the Messines, 1917. |
| 18th Dec 2017 | Christmas Social | Whitworth Hall |
| 2016 Programme |
| 25th Jan 2016 | Arthur Dodds | Sanctuary in the Cathedral. |
| 29th Feb 2016 | John Moreels | Nostalgic Views of the North (PhotoPlate Archive). |
| 21st Mar 2016 | Martin Roberts | Pevsner's County Durham travels. |
| 25th Apr 2016 | John Askwith | Bishop Auckland Station & The Weardale Railway. |
| 23rd May 2016 | Robin Daniels | Evening Visit - The mediaeval town of Hartlepool. |
| 18th Jun 2016 | Summer Visit | The Herriott Museum, Thirsk and Richmond Castle.
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| 27th Jun 2016 | Gordon Henderson | Binchester Roman Fort – 2016 update. |
| 25th Jul 2016 | Abigail Goulding | Eva’s Story – a Film and Talk on Eva Vickerstaff. |
| 26th Sep 2016 | Alastair Fraser | “The Battle of the Somme” – the famous film released in 1916. |
| 24th Oct 2016 | AGM & John Banham | Medomsley to Mirimachi: the career of General Sir Martin Hunter (1757-1846). |
| 28th Nov 2016 | David Beattie | The Eden Family. |
| 19th Dec 2016 | Christmas Social | Tudhoe Cricket Club |
| 2015 Programme |
| 26th Jan 2015 | Paul Green | Police Tales |
| 23rd Feb 2015 | Jenny Garnett | The history of Burn Hall |
| 23rd Mar 2015 | Arthur Dodds | History of aerial surveillance. |
| 27th Apr 2015 | Jo Bath | Tales of the Tyne etc. |
| 18th May 2015 | Peter Woods | NE Geological History |
| 13th Jun 2015 | Summer Visit | Eden Camp, Malton. |
| 29th Jun 2015 | Gordon Henderson | Binchester visit and update. |
| 27th Jul 2015 | Tony Smith | The Four Flemings - Williams I - IV, 1844 - 2014. |
| 28th Sep 2015 | Alastair Fraser | A Battalion on the Learning Curve: W.D.Lowe & 18 DLI in the Great War |
| 26th Oct 2015 | Michael Richardson | Durham City in Colour 1960-70. |
| 23rd Nov 2015 | George Nairn | Post Cards from World War I. |
| 14th Dec 2015 | Christmas Social | Whitworth Hall. |
| 2014 Programme |
| 27th Jan 2014 | Dr Craig Barclay | A little bucket of ducatoons. |
| 24th Feb 2014 | Michael Rudd | Visitors to Teesdale through the centuries. |
| 24th Mar 2014 | Steve Gibbs | A history of brewing. |
| 28th Apr 2014 | Dr Ian Boulton | Iron, steel, carbon and fire. |
| 19th May 2014 | John Ruffle | Visit to St John's Church, Kirk Merrington, meet at the west gate at 7pm. |
| 14th Jun 2014 | Summer Visit | Abbotsford (nr Melrose) the home of Sir Walter Scott. |
| 23rd Jun 2014 | Arthur Dodds | The Gunpowder Plot. |
| 28th Jul 2014 | Michael Richardson | Durham in photographs 1936-1960. |
| 22nd Sep 2014 | Chris Lloyd | Attacking the Devil and sinking the unsinkable: W T Stead and the Titanic. |
| 27th Oct 2014 | AGM and Mike Ord | More history from an armchair. |
| 24th Nov 2014 | David Butler | Christina's Bridge. |
| 15th Dec 2014 | Christmas Social | Whitworth Hall. |
| 2013 Programme |
| 28th Jan 2013 | Olly Burton | Heraldry & Local Families. |
| 25th Feb 2013 | Rowena Hackwood | The Auckland Castle Project. |
| 25th Mar 2013 | Jennifer Gill | The Londonderry Family. |
| 22nd Apr 2013 | Winifred Colman | The life, times and travels of Peter Lee. |
| 18th May 2013 | Yesterday Belongs to You | County Hall Durham. |
| 20th May 2013 | John Ruffle | The 4th Viscount Castlereagh. |
| 24th Jun 2013 | Mike Amos | Ramblings about Spennymoor - Recollections of a local journalist. |
| 13th Jul 2013 | Summer Visit | Paxton House (on the north bank of the Tweed near Berwick). |
| 22nd Jul 2013 | Arthur Dodds | The Spy from County Durham. |
| 23rd Sep 2013 | George Nairn | The Great North Road - Scotch Corner to Lamberton Toll. |
| 28th Oct 2013 | AGM and Mike Ord | A 15th Armchair Expose. |
| 25th Nov 2013 | Martin Roberts | Vanishing Vernacular. |
| 16th Dec 2013 | Christmas Social | Honest Lawyer. |
| 2012 Programme |
| 23rd Jan 2012 | Pictures | Pictures of Tudhoe & Spennymoor. |
| 27th Feb 2012 | Olly Burton | Stained Glass Windows. |
| 26th Mar 2012 | Julian Harrop | Visit to Beamish Archive. |
| 23rd Apr 2012 | Janet Thackray | Our Northern Heritage. |
| 21st May 2012 | David Mason | New excavations at Binchester. |
| 25th Jun 2012 | John Ruffle | 40 years in 50 pictures |
| 14th Jul 2012 | Summer Visit | Wallington Hall. |
| 23rd Jul 2012 | Jack Inch | Visit to Durham Mining Museum at Town Hall. |
| 15th Sep 2012 | Binchester | Visit to Binchester. |
| 24th Sep 2012 | Chris Lloyd | Darlington Civic Theatre. |
| 22nd Oct 2012 | AGM and Mike Ord | A 14th Armchair stroll |
| 26th Nov 2012 | Martin Roberts | Slipping down the ladder: the decline of Weardale's great Elizabethan Houses. |
| 17th Dec 2012 | Christmas Social | Honest Lawyer. |
| 2011 Programme |
| 24th Jan 2011 | John Bygate | The Birtley Belgians. |
| 28th Feb 2011 | David Butler | Rambles with Rosa : travels in Europe & Asia Minor in 1871. |
| 28th Mar 2011 | Jo Bath | Witchcraft in North East England. |
| 18th Apr 2011 | Andrew Urwin | The life and times of Fred Urwin. |
| 23rd May 2011 | Spring Visit | Witton Castle Estate. |
| 27th Jun 2011 | Heather Mounsey | Who killed Lucy. |
| 16th Jul 2011 | Summer Visit | The Scottish Borders. Floors Castle and Kelso. |
| 25th Jul 2011 | Bob Abley | Spennymoor in film. |
| 26th Sep 2011 | Members' Evening | Personal artefacts to be discussed. |
| 24th Oct 2011 | AGM and Mike Ord | Armchair walk no.13. |
| 28th Nov 2011 | Sheila Forster | Voices from the past: oral history. |
| 19th Dec 2011 | Christmas Social | Honest Lawyer. |
| 2010 Programme |
| 25th Jan 2010 | Chris Lloyd | Cockfield Fell. |
| 22nd Feb 2010 | John Banham | Wotton in Werdale: the Eures and their castle. |
| 14th Mar 2010 | Sprimg Visit | Newcastle and Gateshead Waterfront and the Great North Museum(formerly Hancock Museum). |
| 22nd Mar 2010 | Trevor Carroll | The History of Fairs. |
| 26th Apr 2010 | Tony Smith | From Catterick and back via India and Dunkirk: a retrospective of Ted Smith's talk in November 1991. |
| 24th May 2010 | Ted Shaw | William Shaw and Dotheboys Hall. |
| 28th Jun 2010 | David Butler | Durham Town Hall Tour. Meet outside the Town Hall at 6.30 pm. |
| July 2010 | Settle and Carlisle Railway. | Summer visit. |
| 26th Jul 2010 | Rosemary Allen | Northern things. |
| 27th Sep 2010 | Niall Hammond | Scargill Castle. |
| 25th Oct 2010 | AGM and Mike Ord | An armchair stroll along the North Yorkshire coast. |
| 22nd Nov 2010 | John Ruffle | The alternative to growing turnips: Myrtle Bloom in Egypt in the 1930s. |
| 20th Dec 2010 | Christmas Social | Whitworth Hall |
| 2009 Programme |
| 26th Jan 2009 | Bob Abley | The Byers Green branch line-part 2. |
| 15th Feb 2009 | Bradford | National Media Museum, Bradford. |
| 23rd Mar 2009 | Spennymoor Settlement. | Spennymoor Settlement. |
| 27th Apr 2009 | William Salvin | The challenges in running an historic country estate. |
| 16th May 2009 | Yesterday belongs to you. | County Hall. The society will have a stand at this bi-annual event. |
| 18th May 2009 | Gordon Henderson | Roman medicine and Binchester update |
| 29th Jun 2009 | Naill Benson | Durham's Magical Coast |
| June/July | Castle Howard | Depart by Community Bus from St.David's Church, Tudhoe,at 9.00 a.m |
| 27th Jul 2009 | Raby Castle | Meet at the car park within the grounds (entrance fees payable) at 2.00 p.m. |
| 28th Sep 2009 | Jennifer Gill | Recipes and meals through the ages. |
| 25th Oct 2009 | AGM and Mike Ord | Coast in an armchair. |
| 23rd Nov 2009 | David Mason | New evidence for Roman County Durham. |
| 14th Dec 2009 | Christmas Social | Whitworth Hall |