Mike Higginbottom lectures to Arts Society groups, historical societies and colleges on architectural and social history.  Lectures last one hour;  study-days consist of up to three lectures, with or without relevant site-visits if appropriate.

Details of each lecture and study-day can be found if you simply click on any of the hyperlinks below.

Sheffield local history topics:

• Demolished Sheffield
• A Look Round Attercliffe
• Sheffield’s Cinema Heritage

Transport history topics:

• Waterways and Railways across the Derbyshire Peak
• Waterways and Railways across the Northern Pennines
• Waterways and Railways between Thames and Severn

Social and architectural history topics:

• English Country Houses – not quite what they seem
• St Pancras Station
• Liverpool’s Heritage
• Manchester’s Heritage
• Birmingham’s Heritage
• Fun Palaces – the history and architecture of the entertainment industry
  • All the World’s a Stage:  the development of theatre buildings
  • Dream Palaces:  an introduction to cinema architecture
  • Away from it all:  the heritage of holiday resorts
  • Beside the Seaside:  the architecture of British coastal resorts
  • Blackpool’s Seaside Heritage
  • Yorkshire’s Seaside Heritage
• Next to Godliness – the architecture and decoration of Victorian sanitation
  • Victorian Cemeteries
  • Temples of Sanitation – alternative title ‘Victorian Sewerage’
• The Big Apple – the architecture of New York City
• Windy City – the architecture of Chicago