Sheffield events

Tuesday, the 8th of March, was International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate and further the rights of women across the world. Yet, while IWD has been observed in one form or other for

On February 12 2016, Steph Wright (who works on veterans of the Spanish Civil War) and I held a conference on ‘The Language of Authoritarian Regimes’. The day aimed to explore the creation, dissemination and reception of discourse

 'Young law students would arrive at their coffee house, newspapers in hand, and saunter away their time, admiring one another’s get-ups'.  With these words, written in her light-hearted re-telling of English history Life Among the

Today is the anniversary of the death of Queen Waldrada. Now, let me be the first to admit that hers is hardly a household name. At the time of writing, she does not even have

On Saturday night, I’ll be hosting a masked party. The setting is Florence, 1537. We’ll have musicians to entertain us in period style, and some surprises through the evening. I hope it’ll be a good

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