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.
George told us that, in the past, he had visited several areas along the ’Silk Road’ but had never been to Iran. When he told his family and friends that he was considering a trip to Iran they were unhappy, because they thought that it was a dangerous place for British, Europeans or Americans to … Read more
Nick Verber is a research registrar working for his PhD at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience Institute (SITraN), University of Sheffield. He gave an excellent talk, very successfully overcoming the temptation of many medics to litter their lectures with clinical jargon. It was clearly delivered and easily followed by a large Zoom gathering of … Read more
Once again highlighting the depth of knowledge within our own membership, we were treated to the second half of Tim Stephenson’s exploration of the immensely powerful and wealthy Medici family. Prior to his retirement Tim, a professor of pathology, was Clinical Director of Laboratory Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and an honorary professor at … Read more
Peter Ivey gave a succinct overview to a Zoom record of 45 members on how the internet works, and a very useful talk as most like me were fairly clueless; bits, bytes, HTML, 5G are familiar words bandied around but never quite sure exactly what they all mean. Peter’s background includes a physics degree at … Read more
Richard spent 26 years at Sheffield Hallam University, teaching statistics, becoming the Dean of the Faculty. Meanwhile, he spent 25 years as a Lay Magistrate in the Adult Law Courts, based in Sheffield, covering South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Lay Magistrates was the topic for today’s presentation. Types of Magistrate :- A Professional Magistrate, also called … Read more
Our speaker this week, Antony Taylor, is Professor of Modern History at Sheffield Hallam University. He had previously visited us in January 2019, when he gave a most even-handed view of Brexit and its ramifications. He was to repeat this approach in tackling todays talk, the subject of which in its day was, for nearly … Read more