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  • A History of Sheffield Football – Martin Westby

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    Come and hear about how Sheffield started the first football club in the world.  Even if you don't follow the game it is a part of the heritage of Sheffield and the start of something very big and maybe one of your ancestors played!   Please note the trip usually organised for July has been […]

  • Dirty Stop Outs Guide to Working Men’s Club

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    This month we welcome back Neil Anderson who will entertain us with 'dirty stop out' memories of the glitzy world of working men's clubs in the 1970s.

  • Born in Sheffield: A History of Women’s Health Services, 1864 – 2000

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    IMPORTANT MESSAGE The  talk on the 21st October 2019 is still going ahead as normal. Please be aware that there is a football match at Bramall Lane but both Sheffield United and the police have confirmed no roads will be closed. We will keep checking and let you know of any changes. This month we […]

  • 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 country.          

  • 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 suspected of being the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.

  • 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 day items such as babies feeding bottles, corsets and wallpaper.

  • 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 take part in a light hearted fun quiz

  • 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 frequented from Tudor times onwards and the seaside holiday towns which grew up in Victorian times when the railway system enabled ordinary working people to […]

  • 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 crashed in Endcliffe Park in February 1944, killing all 10 crew members and narrowly missing children who were playing in the park.

  • Fools and Horses: The Victorian Circus (talk on Zoom)

    Your own home

    MEMBER ONLY MEETING Join us to hear Dr Ann Featherstone talk about the history of the Victorian Circus, which is one of high success and dreadful failure, of fires, falls and fabulous feats.  The talk provides a fascinating insight into this little known aspect of Victorian entertainment. NB   Not a member?  Please see the Membership […]