Talks
Talks take place at 2.15 pm on the fourth Wednesday in every month, except for July, August and December, in the Normanby Room. Whilst originally intended for members of the Lit. and Phil., non-members are now most welcome on payment of £1.00Talks usually last just over 1 hour and are often accompanied by slides or other illustrative matter.
| DATE | SUBJECT | SPEAKER |
| 25th January 2012 | Whitby Strand | Roger Pickles |
| 22nd February 2012 | Vanishing villages of West Middlesex | Mark Edwards |
| 22nd March 2012 | Whitby's Muster Rolls | Jennifer Halling Rachel Greenwood Christiane Kroebel |
| 25th April 2012 | The history of the Whitby - Loftus line, 1866 - 1958 | Dr. Michael A Williams |
| 23rd May 2012 | Tommy Roe Memorial Lecture Jet mining & Jet jewellery | David Pybus Lynne Glazzard |
| 27th June 2012 | A maritime subject | Rosalin Barker |
| 26th September 2012 | Early Whitby Photogaphers | Ruth Wilcock |
| 24th October 2012 | Francis Nicholson of Pickering (1753 - 1844) and the great age of British Watercolours | Professor Gordon Bell |
| 28th November 2012 | A numismatic zoo | Roger Dalladay |