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.
If Harry Brearley made the production of stainless steel possible, it was Robert Mosley who was the visionary, innovator and entrepreneur who brought Sheffield stainless steel cutlery to the mass market. Anna de Lange’s presentation of Robert Fead Mosley’s life and career provided us with an interesting sequel to Andrew Messer’s talk eight weeks earlier … Read more
This week we enjoyed a very informative and well-presented talk on a forgotten Antarctic explorer Barbara originally trained as a nurse then training as a midwife first coming to Sheffield in 1971 she then worked in Switzerland and Canada returning to the city to work on the renal transplant programme after some time she then … Read more
The Medici Family Tree Professor Tim Stevenson has retired as the Clinical Director of Laboratory Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospital and is now a member of Stumperlowe Probus Club. His talk was the first of a two-part examination of the early Medici family and was given using Zoom. The story starts with Giovanni … Read more
Dave Petley gave a superb talk to 41 members, guests, and an unknown number of wives and girlfriends. It was the second highly successful Probus Zoom presentation since COVID-19 lockdown (thanks to Peter, Graham, Richard and Jacko). Dave is Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Sheffield. His research focus is international landslide mechanisms and he … Read more
A polymath is ‘a person of great and varied learning’ and this certainly described the Reverend John Michell ( 25 Dec 1742 – 12 April 1793). Michell was a natural philosopher and a clergyman and seems to be almost unknown although he was: The first person to suggest that earthquakes are caused by movement of … Read more
Peter Stubbs, who travelled from his home in Bakewell and was warmly welcomed by an audience of 48 members, is no stranger to Stumperlowe Probus Club. This was his fifth visit to us in just over two years. Peter is a man of many parts, and talents. On his first visit he managed to cram … Read more