Tuesday March 10th 7.30 A talk by local historian Ken Dash. Thousands of years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, Britain was connected to Europe when the North Sea was dry land. This is the story of that lost landscape and the people that crossed it as Britain’s first settlers.

POSTPONED  Wednesday 25th March 2015 7.30 Due to unavoidable circumstances we are sorry that we have had to postpone this talk.  Instead,  Ron Clayton will be speaking on this date about Sheffield’s Lost Heritage, with particular focus on Sheffield’s lost halls of the 16th and 17th centuries. Ken Dash has spent four years painstakingly surveying […]

Tuesday February 3rd 2015 7.30 Kaktus Leach talk on “Two thousand years of unofficial coinage” Entry free, but please arrive early to be sure of a place.

Thursday March 19th 2015 7.30  ‘Days of Sun and Rain: the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers during the 1920s and 1930s’.  Using the journals and photographs of a Sheffield walker, George Willis Marshall, local history writer Ann Beedham provides an insight into the world of rambling in Derbyshire, with its shades of social activism, during the 1920s and 1930s. The Clarion Rambling Club campaigned for the rights of […]

Friday 20th February 2015 7.30pm   A talk by Robin Fielder.  Better known as the inventor of Stainless Steel, Harry Brearley wrote an autobiography which provides some of the best descriptions we have of what life was like in Victorian times for the workers of Sheffield. Entry free, but please arrive early to be sure of […]

Friday 5th December 2014 @ 7.30 Music from Bishops’ House presents another evening of thoughtful, introspective music, featuring: Lost GardenLost Garden are a dark ambient (or pick your own genre!) duo performing quasi-improvised instrumental pieces. They are Andy Peake on keyboards/FX (ex Comsat Angels with whom he released 13 albums, countless singles and toured the […]

Sunday 21st December 2pm – 4pm Traditional carol singing. Come and join in with The Friends of Bishops’ House. FREE

Saturday 20th December 1pm – 2.30pm A repeat of last year’s popular singalong of festive songs. Bring your ukelele or your voice and join in FREE. Refreshments available to buy.

Thursday October 16th 7.30pm Friends of Bishops’ House are proud to introduce a series of free talks, extending into the New Year, covering a range of local history based topics.  Chairman of the Friends, John Brown, will set the ball rolling with “The History of Norton Lees’. A great speaker, not to be missed! Free […]

Saturday 18th October 7.30pm The Gamebirds & Black Velvet Clarinet Quartet The Gamebirds are a 4-part vocal harmony group who blend folk and choral styles. Black Velvet Clarinet Quartet play music and arrangements from the Renaissance to the present day. £7 admission on the door