{"id":108,"date":"2021-01-08T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softeksoftware.co.uk\/nehg\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:10:45","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/?page_id=108","title":{"rendered":"Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/?p=707\" title=\"Loxley: Wanderings in a Curious Valley\">Loxley: Wanderings in a Curious Valley<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nA talk by Peter Machan\n\n\nPart of the Nether Edge Festival\n\n\nThursday 19 September 19:30 &#8211; 21:00\n\n\nFrom Robin Hood to the greatest flood in England&#8217;s history.\u00a0 This fully-illustrated talk is based on Peter&#8217;s recently-published book on the Loxley Valley, featuring the diverse landscape and the historic and dramatic events of Sheffield&#8217;s most curious and least well-known valley.\n\n\nKenwood ...<\/div><\/li><li ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/?p=700\" title=\"Only Hunter&#8217;s Hallamshire?\">Only Hunter&#8217;s Hallamshire?<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nTuesday 16 July at 7.30 in the Kenwood Hall Hotel\n\n\nA talk by Julie Banham\n\n\n\u00a35 on the door\n\n\nJoseph Hunter (1783 \u2013 1861) was a Unitarian Minister and antiquarian best known for his book Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York (1819).&nbsp; The Hunter Archaeological Society, which studies and ...<\/div><\/li><li ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/?p=679\" title=\"Sweet Remembrance\">Sweet Remembrance<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nThe Confectioners of Sheffield General Cemetery\n\n\n\n\n\nSweet Remembrance: The Confectioners of Sheffield General Cemetery\n\n\nDate \u2013 Tuesday 23rd&nbsp;January 2024, 7.30 \u2013 8.45pm\n\n\nCost \u2013 \u00a35 (cash only on the door, no online booking)\n\n\nVenue \u2013 Kenwood Hall Hotel, Kenwood Rd, S7 1NQ\n\n\nConfectioner researcher, Andrew Littlewood, will shed light on the stories of some Sheffield confectioners who now rest in ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/union-hotel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/union-hotel.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/union-hotel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>The Union Hotel, Nether Edge, S11 9EF<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Local History Talks and Lectures<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We have provided evenings of short History Talks for the Nether Edge Festival on a wide range of topics including;<em> A History of Brincliffe Woods; The Drabble Family of Writers; The History of the Bowling Club; A Wartime Evacuee in Nether Edge <\/em>and <em>Silversmith Joyce Himsworth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bowling-club.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bowling-club.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bowling-club-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasional lectures began at the Bowling Club in 2019 with Peter Machan\u2019s illustrated lecture on <em>Mary Queen of Scots in Sheffield<\/em>. We are currently hosting a series of talks at the Mercure Sheffield Kenwood Hall Hotel, such as Annie the Bustle Lady&#8217;s talk on the Wonders of Gas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local History Talks and Lectures We have provided evenings of short History Talks for the Nether Edge Festival on a wide range of topics including; A History of Brincliffe Woods; The Drabble Family of Writers; The History of the Bowling Club; A Wartime Evacuee in Nether Edge and Silversmith Joyce Himsworth. Occasional lectures began at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}