Here is a list of all our all our previous talks – Over 400 in total!! You can use the Search function for key words (magnifying glass in our menu).
Thank you to all the Speakers we have had over the years.
Dr Marek Szablewski What a fantastic, emotionally charged talk by Marek about his family origins in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of Poland! Marek himself grew up in Sheffield in the 1960s, leaving for Durham in 1992 for an academic career in applied chemistry and physics. Much of his talk centred on the wartime experience … Read more
Anna Badcock is the Cultural Heritage Manager at the Peak District National Park Authority. The impact of fires on the heritage of the moors is often neglected and Anna highlighted the effect of a spate of wildfires during the summer of 2018 and spring of 2019 in particular ones at Stalybridge and Big Moor on … Read more
David, a retired Nephrologist, Volunteer National Park Ranger, and Covid Vaccinator, is also Co-Clerk to the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). This organisation was founded in 2002 by the World Council of Churches based in Geneva, in response to the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem. It brings people from around the world … Read more
Early life Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (neé Pierrepont) is recognised as one of the great female intellectuals of the 18th century. She was the daughter of the Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, born in 1689. Between 1692 and 1700 she went to her grandmother at West Dean near Salisbury, then to Thoresby Hall … Read more
Peter Stubbs is a retired Sheffield solicitor with a lifelong interest in history. His talk takes us back to a very different time. Our royalty was closely allied to the House of Hanover and the Holy Roman Empire. George III (born 1738) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the … Read more
The mention of Icelandic volcanoes takes most people back to the 2010 eruption, when fine ash caused widespread disruption to air flights over northern and western Europe from April to July. But the eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in the south of the country were but a drop in the ocean – probably literally for most of the … Read more