Please note new time and venue. If using the adjacent car park, please notify Reception of your vehicle registration number. Today, Steve Silverstone will give us an insight into the history of the former psychiatric hospital. Opened in 1872 with 720 beds and with a nurses' home built on site in 1893, Middlewood was also […]

Please note new time and venue. If using the adjacent car park, don't forget to inform Reception of your vehicle registration number. 2 pm AGM Join us to hear Mike Higginbottom, lecturer in social and architectural history for universities and the Workers Educational Association since the early 1970s, give his presentation on some of Sheffield's […]

Please note new time and venue. If using the adjacent car park, don't forget to notify Reception of your vehicle registration number. Today, Ashley Gallant, Curator of the Ruskin Collection, Museums Sheffield, will talk about John Ruskin, who has an almost legendary status in Sheffield, with places and institutions named after him. John Ruskin was […]

Join us to hear Elizabeth Holloway tell the story of Doris, who was born on the eve of WW1. She started work aged 14 in 1926, the year of the General Strike and lived to the ripe old age of 82. Having seen much of the 20th century, Doris was the last of her generation […]

In 1880, Fulwood was a small collection of houses and outlying farms. Over the next 50 years it was transformed into a prosperous suburb. The talk will illustrate significant steps in this transformation. Join us to hear Keith Pitchforth give an insight into how Fulwood became the Sheffield suburb it is today.

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 half, followed by refreshments. The cost for Members is £10 and £15 for non-members, payable in advance. If you are interested, please contact: Joanne email […]

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 circuses, often were family concerns. Portable history, however, is much less well-known and understood. This talk aims to put that right through the perspective of […]

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 of Hans Holbein. Only the very rich could afford to have their portrait painted and as wealth was demonstrated through them, people would have worn […]

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 people who lived in the past. Going beyond simply listing old traditions, the talk explores the very topic of folklore and traditions itself.