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500 Sheffield Treasures – Nick Duggan

Tue, October 13, 2026

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A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age – Alison Twells

Sat, October 17, 2026

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ALL ABOARD!: Tales from a Yorkshire Steam Railway – Paul ‘Piglet’ Middleton

Wed, October 14, 2026

SOLD OUT

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An Expert Witness – Sue Black

Sat, October 10, 2026

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Ancient: Reviving the Woods That Made Britain – Luke Barley

Fri, October 16, 2026

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Art History’s Funniest Bits – Verity Babbs

Sun, October 18, 2026

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Brassed Off – Film Screening

Sat, October 10, 2026

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Captivating Tales from Anna Caig and Amanda Mason

Sat, October 10, 2026

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Celebrate! A Decade and a half of And Other Stories

Thu, October 22, 2026

SOLD OUT

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Chain Reaction – Lee Child and Andrew Child

Mon, October 19, 2026

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Deliverance – Saima Mir

Thu, October 15, 2026

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Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives – Nao-Cola Yamazaki

Sat, October 24, 2026

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Firing Earth: An Unexpected History of Pots and Potters – Keith Brymer Jones

Sun, October 25, 2026

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First Fiction with Natalie Adler, Imani Thompson, Gab Torr

Sat, October 10, 2026

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Four Northern Poets

Fri, October 9, 2026

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Groovy, Laidback and Nasty – Daniel Dylan Wray

Fri, October 16, 2026

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Holbein: Renaissance Master – Elizabeth Goldring

Thu, October 15, 2026

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Honoured – Naz Shah

Sun, October 18, 2026

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Later Life Letter – Luke Wright

Thu, October 15, 2026

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Lessons to Learn from Cities of the Future – Gabriella Bennett

Wed, October 14, 2026

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Logging Off – Adele Zeynep Walton

Tue, October 20, 2026

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Murder at the End of the World – Akane Araki

Mon, October 12, 2026

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My Heart is This: Tracey Emin on Painting – Martin Gayford

Tue, October 13, 2026

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NEW VENUE Middle-Aged Women Get Sh*t Done – Lucy Porter

Wed, October 14, 2026

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Nocturnes – Susan Tomes

Fri, October 23, 2026

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One Small Step – Paul Sinton-Hewitt

Sat, October 17, 2026

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Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen – Kate Evans

Thu, October 22, 2026

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Plants Can Save Your Life – Ross Cameron

Tue, October 20, 2026

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Poetry of Resistance and Transcendence – Carolyn Forché & Kwame Dawes

Sat, October 17, 2026

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Poetry with Helen Mort and Katharine Towers

Wed, October 21, 2026

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Punk Rock Ruined My Life – John Robb

Thu, October 22, 2026

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REDS – Paul Mason

Sun, October 18, 2026

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Radicals – The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain – Geoff Andrews

Fri, October 9, 2026

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Rebel Grrrls: The Real Story of Women and Punk – Molly Tie

Sun, October 11, 2026

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Roots and Futures Exhibition

Tue, October 20, 2026

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Roots and Futures Exhibition

Wed, October 21, 2026

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Roots and Futures Exhibition and Drop In session

Sun, October 18, 2026

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Roots and Futures Exhibiton

Mon, October 19, 2026

SOLD OUT

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Running On Air – Sophie Raworth

Sat, October 24, 2026

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Sir Bradley Wiggins – The Chain

Mon, September 28, 2026

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Slambarz presents The Next Wave

Mon, October 19, 2026

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Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains – John Grindrod

Sun, October 11, 2026

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The 21st Century Brain – Hannah Critchlow

Mon, October 12, 2026

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The Brass Band Story – Trevor Herbert

Sat, October 10, 2026

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The Geopolitics of Climate – Arthur Snell

Sat, October 24, 2026

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The New Eden – JC Niala

Sat, October 10, 2026

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The Parkwood Murders – Chris Chibnall

Fri, October 16, 2026

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The Ritual Year – Keira Chapman

Sat, October 24, 2026

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The Savage Landscape – Cal Flyn

Thu, October 22, 2026

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These Isles: A People’s History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – Brian Groom

Fri, October 23, 2026

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Tripping the Neon Fantastic – Vanessa Toulmin

Sun, October 25, 2026

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Waking the Warriors – Ben Okri

Sun, October 25, 2026

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We Were Here – Stephanie Phillips

Sun, October 25, 2026

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What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain – Colin Grant

Fri, October 23, 2026

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What a Time to Be Alive! Scenes from a Strange Age – Marina Hyde

Tue, October 13, 2026

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When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors – Paula Akpan

Sat, October 17, 2026

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Wild Rock – Matt Heason

Thu, October 15, 2026

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Wimmy Road Boyz – Sufiyaan Salam

Sat, October 17, 2026

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Ye Olde Sheffield Part 2: Buildings, People, Places – David Templeman

Wed, October 21, 2026

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“Queen James”: Passion and Politics at the Heart of the Monarchy – Gareth Russell

Sun, October 11, 2026

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