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  • 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.

  • CANCELLED

    Visit to Sheffield Town Hall

    Sheffield Town Hall Pinstone Street, Sheffield

    "THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED TILL FURTHER NOTICE"

  • Talks programme for the remainder of 2020

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    Due to the ongoing situation regarding Covid 19 and concerns for the safety of Members, the Committee has decided to cancel the talks programme for the remainder of 2020. We hope you are all keeping safe and well and look forward to seeing you again in 2021.

  • Zoom Meeting – Zion Graveyard

    Your own home

    MEMBER ONLY MEETING Penny Read, Chair of the Friends of the Zion Graveyard, will give a talk about how the group fought to save the graveyard in Attercliffe and the notable people who are buried there, including Mary Anne Rawson, a leading light in the abolition of slavery. NB    Not a Member?  Please see the Membership […]

    Free

  • 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 […]

  • ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN GENEALOGY – ZOOM MEETING

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    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 member?  Please see the Membership section of the website for information on how to join

  • Visit to National Memorial Arboretum

    In anticipation of a resolution to the Covid19 situation we are arranging a day trip by coach to the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas on 26th June 2021. Whilst the military aspect of the NMA is obvious there are also gardens dedicated to pre/neonatal deaths, the Home Front, Bevan Boys, the Burma Railway and much […]

  • 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 a Member?  Please see the membership section of the website for information on how to join  

    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 to the present day, how the Office of Justice of the Peace came about and the effect it had on the provision of court buildings

    Free