The sea was the first world-wide web and Hull people and ships made their mark in the creation of that first and fundamental tier of our modern global economy. But the reach of people from this unique port-city goes beyond the oceans and seas of this world and this illustrated lecture by Dr Robb Robinson will consider the achievements of a wide range of local people - on land and sea alike - many of them who left the Humber to make their mark in so many different ways in so many corners of our world.

Hear about all sorts of people who have slipped out of our collective view. Do you know anything, for example, about John Enderby Jackson? He was the Hull-born theatre empressario who basically launched and developed national and international brass band competition which became such a crucial, distinctive and engrained part of the culture of northern England.

What do you know about the Hull man who started his career with Earles Shipbuilding on the banks of the Humber, moved into civil engineering and drove the first underground tunnel from the mainland to Long Island in New York after others had failed and whose achievements are more marked in America than in his home city.? Many of you may well have travelled on one of his most remarkable New York subway tunnels if you have been to New York. Come along and find out, its free and everyone is welcome.