Kate Faulks acheived her PhD at the University of Sheffield. She researched historical and archaeological sources and methodologies to assess whether the Commissioner Churches were built in the early 19th century as a bulwark against revolution, dissent and ‘godlessness’. From the data, she is able to extract many other aspects of contemporary social life in […]
What did your forebears inherit from their parents? Which psychological characteristics did your ancestors hand down? Helen Parker-Drabble, a former counsellor, explores family history through a psychological lens using her own family as examples. Please note this is a ZOOM meeting.
It was after discovering a branch of her family who had lived and worked in the Crofts district of Sheffield, that Christine Minter began to look in depth at this area. Housing, employment, education, religion, crime and punishment, not to mention some of its more colourful characters. Medical reports and newspaper archives were particularly enlightening […]
Join us to hear John Taylor present his talk Britain’s Peculiar Legacy of Follies, Myths and Fancies. In this talk he looks at the sites and places which recall our unique way of life, eccentricities, humour, oddities and the myths of history. For example, who created and inspired our popular and apocryphal heroes and what […]