For all branch enquiries to Michael Clarke m.s.clarke@birkdaleschool.org.uk

Meetings are held at the Lecture Theatre, Grayson Building, Birkdale School, Oakholme Road, Sheffield S10 3DH. Entrance via the Endcliffe Crescent gate. Parking available on site. Usually held the first or second Thursday of the month. Doors will open at 7pm and the lecture will start promptly at 7.30pm.

Associate members: £20 per annum (October to July)

National Members: free with membership card

Visitors: £5.

 

 

Sheffield Branch Programme 2026-27

 

 

LECTURES – 2026

Thursday 1^st October

Professor Keith Laybourn (University of Huddersfield)

THE GENERAL STRIKE OF 1926: Fighting for the Soul of Labour

Followed by branch AGM

 

Thursday 12^th November

Dr Andrew Heath (University of Sheffield)

1776 AND ALL THAT: Being Contrarian with the Declaration of Independence at 250 years

The Pam Carlson Memorial Lecture

 

Thursday 3^rd December

Dr Derek Kramer (University of Sheffield)

KOREA BEFORE THE WAR: Atomic fears, Cold War Conflict and the Long Wait for World War II

 

LECTURES – 2027

 

Thursday 7^th January 

Professor Catherine Baker (University of Hull)

THE EUROPEAN SONG CONTEST and the History of European Integration

 

Thursday 4^th February

Joshua Daniels (Public Historian and Documentary Film Maker)

YORKSHIRE AND THE USA: An Historic Connection

 

Thursday 4^th March

Dr Marcus Collins (University of Loughborough)

ARMCHAIR IMPERIALISM: Television, Public Opinion and the End of Empire in 1950s Britain

 

Thursday 22^nd April

Professor Peter Ling (University of Nottingham)

THE MODERN FIRST LADY: An Evolutionary Tale

 

Thursday 13^th May 

Dr Amy Fuller (Nottingham Trent University)

HOW ONE WOMAN CONQUERED MEXICO: The Legacy of Malintzin /Donna Marina, the Conquisitadors’ Indigenous Interpreter

 

Thursday 10^th June

 Dr Paul Jennings

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PUB

 

 

EVENTS 2026 / 7

A trip to the Isle of Wight – Tuesday to Friday 20-23 October 2026

Remembrance Sunday guided military tour of the Sheffield General Cemetery – 8^th November 2026 (Book this with the General Cemetery website)

The Sixth Form Great Debate – Thursday 19^th November 2026 (at Sheffield University)

Guided Tour of the Sheffield University historic buildings – Saturday 21^st November 2026

Branch Dinner with talk by Professor Tim Stephenson – At Home with the Mafia – Thursday 10^th December (at the Victoria Hotel)

Sheffield Local History Fair – January 2027 date to be told to us by the organisers (at the Millenium Galleries)

A Morning at Manor Lodge – Saturday 20^th February 2027

A day out to Burghley and Stamford – Saturday 20^th March 2027

A guided tour of Nethergreen – Saturday 17^th April

A day out to Fountains Abbey and Ripon - Saturday 22^nd May 2027

The President’s Lunch – Saturday 26^th June 2027

A journey to the land of the Prince Bishops – Sat / Sun 10-11^th July 2027 (Durham City and Bishop Aukland, staying in Durham Castle)