In this powerful, inclusive and entertaining new cultural history of sex, Fern Riddell takes us on an illuminating journey to uncover the sexual lives of our ancestors. From flirtation to orgasm and everything in between, she shows they were just as preoccupied with sex as we are, facing it with the same confusion, joy and accidental hilarity that we do…

Former Labour MP Helen Jackson looks back at the Sheffield city landscape at a significant and progressive time in its history 1970-1992.  Helen’s historical narrative merges with her reflections as a woman in politics.  Focused on the local, the memoir holds wider lessons for national and global politics for our times.  This panel event includes three women featured in the…

Tessa Leuwsha and David McKay in conversation with Henriette Louwerse. This event explores the importance of re-writing Dutch colonial stories from new perspectives and the art of translating them. Surinamese-Dutch author Tessa Leuwsha’s novel, Plantation Wildlust, is set in Suriname in the early twentieth century. It depicts the power structures following the abolition of slavery. Leuwsha is “keen to present different…

In 1970 protests at the Miss World contest at the Albert Hall attracted headlines around the world with women arrested and a subsequent trial, events captured in the 2020 film Misbehaviour.  This book tells the story of the protesters in the words of the rebels themselves including Sheffielder Jenny Fortune.  Join her and other editors of the book as they talk…

Writer Désirée Reynolds has been working as Writer in Residence in Sheffield Archives. The Take It To The Streets project aims to bring Black and marginalised voices out of the Archive, provide some form of reparative justice and to reveal to the public a Sheffield past that has not been looked at on this scale before. For this illustrated talk,…

Jack Guinness’s popular website QueerBible.com is a space dedicated to queer history. Now his beautiful, illustrated book The Queer Bible continues his mission celebrating queer culture for LGBTQI+ community and its allies. A stellar line-up of today’s queer icons including Graham Norton and Russell Tovey write about the queer trailblazers, from Susan Sontang to James Baldwin, who inspired them. At…