Tuesday 21st November Doors open 7:30 pm for 8 pm start Sharron Kraus & Nancy Wallace / Bell Lungs Nancy Wallace is a singer and musician hailing from London and Suffolk, and now based in Montreal, Canada. A guitarist and concertina player, her approach to both instruments, and her interpretations of both traditional material and her […]

New exhibition running every Saturday & Sunday from October 28th to December 10th 10am-4pmThrough interactive technology, visitors will have the opportunity to meet characters that could have lived in the house over the last 500 years. In partnership with the museum volunteers at the Bishops’ House, designer and PhD candidate Caroline Claisse has co-created an interactive […]

Sunday December 17 2017 7.30pm FrostlakeReturning to Bishops House is songstress/instrumentalist Frostlake, spectral psych-folk with haunting vocals. Guitar, laptop, Korg wavedrum and bassist Terry Todd give an atmospheric, otherworldly touch to new songs and ones from the album White Moon, Black Moon – listen here ” beautiful..atmospheric…ethereal… spooky” Achim Breiling Babyblaue Sieten Red ZooWere a Sheffield […]

Saturday December 02 2017 7.30pm String Theology A duo consisting of Herve Perez (shakuhachi/laptop) and Nick Robinson (guitar/loops). Both are veterans of the Sheffield improv scene and bring a diverse range of sounds and inluences to the collaboration. Their music is improvised and is a reflective mixture of electronica and organic sounds. A previous recording can be heard here A Collection […]

  Bishops’ House Autumn Fayre is back on 7th and 8th October 2017! Come along to meet Knights in Battle- real life knights and watch them battling. There will be stalls with local produce and crafts plus face painting and music. Food and drink will be available including delicious pizzas, cakes and a barista coffee […]

Getting the dates right – Tree-ring dating Bishops’ House – 1pm Sunday 10th September 2017 How old is Bishops’ House?  We thought we had a good idea, but the more Ken Dash, our resident local historian, mulled over the structure of the house, the more he began to wonder if the research done in the […]

Saturday September 30th 2017 7.30pm We are delighted to announce a one-off date by Henry Normal: a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television. […]

Monday 11 December 19:30–21:00 This illustrated talk by Danny Wells looks at the influence of the Victorians on Christmas as we know it today. The Victorians repackaged older traditions and customs that suited their new sensibilities, ideas and concerns. It is said the Victorians: “mixed the ingredients of the English Christmas to create an extremely rich […]