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.
How do you write a blog on a magician? Well. Here goes. This was Dave’s third end of year talk to us in succession, (which speaks for itself), putting us well and truly in the holiday mood, with another, and different, entertaining performance of magic, comedy and music. As a Jeremy Corbyn look-alike, he started … Read more
The Honey Bee Show Peter Miles Peter has been a bee-keeper for over 45 years and is still finding out how bees do what they do. Imagine a computer that can fly, can navigate to the inch over a distance of ~7 miles and also contains a … Read more
Clyde Binfield is the Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sheffield with several books to his name. He is also a very accomplished speaker with both a sense of humour and great curiosity. Perhaps his love of an artist/architect that was so anti-establishment and a hero of the working man should not come … Read more
Chris Dorries has been Senior Sheffield Coroner since 1991. Sheffield has a high national profile with approximately 3500 cases (40% of all South Yorkshire deaths) reported to the Coroners jurisdiction annually. Half are referred for conventional in-house CT autopsy. Sheffield is only one of three UK mortuaries with its own high dose CT scanner (a … Read more
Sheffield, from its beginnings as a small market town through to today, is a city with an international reputation for industry, commerce and sport steeped in history. It has a heritage to be proud of and envied by many. Heritage can be seen as a series of stepping stones to where we are today, but … Read more
THE Clipper Race, first held in 1996-97 and the brainchild of solo round-the-world yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, is contested by 12 identical yachts, each with a professional skipper but crewed by a combined total of 700 amateur sailors. Martin Greenshields is very much one of the amateurs. Before embarking on this 10,000 nautical mile … Read more