History of Sheffield

In a family circus worthy of Jerry Springer, Mr Murray Pringle, a 74-year old accountant from High Wycombe, recently became a baronet. Or rather, it was ruled in court that he should become the next

A search for #MuirfieldGolfClub on Twitter provides a telling insight into popular reaction to a recent vote at the Muirfield Golf Club in East Lothian, Scotland, where members failed to rally the two-thirds majority which would have

The question whether universities should have links with firms that are involved in the manufacture of armaments is topical. Since 2007, the policy of the University of Sheffield Students’ Union has been to end all

As a former professional archaeologist, I have always been interested in the idea of "ruins" (in the broadest sense) as foci for remembering. This is implicit in the idea of a heritage site, which as

You’d be forgiven for thinking that South Yorkshire doesn’t have much of a Medieval past. Brought up in Sheffield, our local history lessons in school focused mainly on nineteenth and twentieth-century mining. The local museums

Anybody who lives in Sheffield will be more than conscious of its industrial past, a proud legacy that lives on in Sheffield’s architecture, street names and culture. Most will also be aware of the impact of