Saturday 21st May 2016 7.30 An evening of poetry and music to launch *If You Put Out Your Hand*: a collaboration between poet Helen Tookey and musician Sharron Kraus. The project takes inspiration from the natural world and our ways of responding to it. The poems’ settings are gardens, river valleys, hills, and at the […]
Wednesday June 22nd 2016 Sheffield was quick off the mark to provide elementary education after the 1870 Education Act, and the School Board was responsible for many fine school buildings. The talk looks at the way the Board was set up in Sheffield and at the building programme which has left us with one of […]
Monday May 23rd 2016 The story of the lords of the manor from the Norman Conquest to the 20th century; their homes, castles, parks and the larger than life stories of their lives and times. Includes the stories of the amazing Bess of Harwick, the Earl of Shrewsbury and their royal prisoner, Mary Queen of […]
Wednesday May 4th 21016 What were they really like? An examination of the local workhouse experience.
Wednesday April 20th 2016 This talk explains why this most unusual former turnpike road came to be planned and built and why, though it was a feat of highway engineering, it was a commercial failure. Its history post-turnpike is covered up to the present day and its relevance to Sheffield’s communications is examined. Copies of […]
Friday, March 18th 2016, 7.30pm The Gamebirds sing in 3 or 4 part harmony within the folk music tradition and with an instrumental complement. Themes include ancient and mediaeval songs, songs about women’s issues through the ages and songs about bellringing – as one of our members is a bellringer. The Beekeepers chamber folk group […]
Sunday, February 14th 2016, 7pm An evening of Tudor music (and more) from the Endcliffe Brass Ensemble and 16th Spanish songs of love and longing as well as Cuban songs from Sinsontes, a group of singers who perform in Spanish and Catalan. In support of the Syrian Refugee Crisis Appeal Admission £6 including free glass […]
Saturday 23rd January 2016 7.30 A night of songs, medieval tunes and improvisations from Sharron Kraus and Moogambo (Jennifer Bliss Bennett, Olly Parfitt, George Parfitt) + Rob Lee & Arianne Churchman performing psycho-botanical ballads, wassails and dirges. £5 on the door
Wednesday, 2nd March 2016 THE COMING OF LIGHTAn evening of poems, paintings and wine THE WORD TRAINPoems by Nick RogersCarolyn WaudbyAlan PayneLorraine O’ReillyJohn GosnellJan Caborn Paintings byJohn Gosnell Admission £5 including free glass of wine or juice.
Wednesday March 23rd 2016 This talk by David Templeman looks at how the ordinary man lived, worked and played in central Sheffield in the 16th and 17th centuries. Also the buildings that survive from this period. Finally a look at how the town developed its core industry – cutlery and laid the foundations for the […]
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