• The Great Sheffield Deer Park

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    To begin our programme of talks for 2020, David Templeman takes an informal look at Sheffield's 8 mile medieval and tudor deer park, one of the largest privately owned in […]

  • The Maybrick Murder

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    In a change to our previously advertised talk, we welcome for the first time, Alan Hancock to talk about the murder by Florence Maybrick of her husband James, who was […]

  • Victorian Killers – what killed ordinary people

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    AGM, followed by Brian Smailes, a new speaker to our programme of talks, who gives an insight into the killers of ordinary adults and children during the 1880s, including every […]

  • The History of the Humble Fork and Fun Quiz *CANCELLED*

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    *THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED* Join us for a talk illustrated by physical artefacts in the form of various types of cutlery, given by Paul Iseard, Friends of Portland Works and […]

  • Away From It All *CANCELLED*

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    *THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED* This month we welcome back Mike Higginbottom who looks at the history of leisure away from home, covering the spas and watering places that rich people […]

  • Mi Amigo *CANCELLED*

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    *THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED*  Barry Darwin is a new speaker to our programme and tells the story of Mi Amigo, the World War 2 American flying fortress B17 bomber which […]

  • ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN GENEALOGY – ZOOM MEETING

    Your own home

    MEMBERS ONLY   Dr Penny Walters, author of 'Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy' will discuss what ethics and morality mean and what they have to do with genealogy   NB   Not a […]

  • The History and Mystery of Funerals

    Your own home

    Zoom Talk - Members only Join us to hear Sue Flipping's talk about funerals over the last thousand years, tracing how they influence what we consider 'normal' today NB   Not […]

    Free
  • History of a Courthouse

    Your own home

    Members only Zoom meeting   In this talk, Eric Jackson (with a focus for family historians), will describe how the legal system of England evolved from early Saxon times up […]

    Free