• Visit to Sheffield Cutlers Hall

    Sheffield Cutlers Hall Church Street, Sheffield

    This year our annual visit is to Sheffield Cutlers Hall on 17 July, meeting at 1.45 pm for 2 pm start. The tour will take approximately an hour and a […]

  • Wagon and tilt – the English portable theatre and family history

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    To start our new programme of talks, we welcome back Dr Ann Featherstone. Portable theatres were part of the travelling entertainment community from the 18th century and, like showmen and […]

  • The ‘Hidden Messages’ in the Portraits at Hardwick Hall

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    Join us to hear Maureen Taylor talk about how the 16th century saw an explosion in portrait painting, which mainly started during the reign of Henry VIII and his promotion […]

  • A Yorkshire Year: Folklore, Customs and Traditions

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    To accompany her new book, Catherine Warr delves deeply into Yorkshire folklore, customs and traditions, discusing what it is, how it was collected and what it tells us about the […]

  • Lost Sheffield: Portrait of a Victorian City

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    The Sheffield city centre which was familiar to our Victorian predecessors has largely been lost to us. Through the work of Sheffield Victorian Photographers, Peter Machan recreates the experience of […]

  • Inspector Hopkinson’s Discovery

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    And now for something completely different! Ian Morgan presents the sad and tragic tale of one night's events in 1895. You are the jury in this true story of murder. […]

  • Sheffield’s Ancient Suburbs – Part 2

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    David Templeman returns to talk about some more of Sheffield's oldest suburbs dating back as far as the Domesday Book (1086)

  • Sheffield Cathedral – 800 years of Sheffield history in one building

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    A talk by Janet Ridler which looks at how Sheffield has developed from Saxon times up to the present day and how the City's history can be traced within the […]