Events
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Society June meeting – Music Hall: the singers and the songs
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldOur speaker this month is Ann Featherstone who will introduce us to the entertaining world of music halls, the people who sang in them and the songs they sang
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Bus ride round Attercliffe
Please note this is not organised by the Society http://www.mikehigginbottominterestingtimes.co.uk/?p=6022
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A History of Sheffield Football – Martin Westby
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldCome 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 […]
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Dirty Stop Outs Guide to Working Men’s Club
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldThis 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.
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Born in Sheffield: A History of Women’s Health Services, 1864 – 2000
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldIMPORTANT 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 […]
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Medieval Christmas
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldTo finish this year's programme of talks and help us get in the 'Christmas mood' Lloyd Powell will give an entertaining insight into the medieval christmas celebrations of our ancestors
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Sheffield Heritage Fair
Millenium Galleries Surrey Place, SheffieldThe Sheffield Heritage Fair will be held on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 January 2020 in the Cadman Room and Arundel Room, Millenium Galleries, Surrey Place, Sheffield S1 2LP. Times: Saturday 10am - 4 pm Sunday 11am - 3 pm Local history and friends groups will be showcasing their workS
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The Great Sheffield Deer Park
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldTo 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.
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The Maybrick Murder
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldIn 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.
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Victorian Killers – what killed ordinary people
Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance SheffieldAGM, 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.