How a medieval castle became a modern city: a new dig reveals Sheffield's secrets
‘Every act of destruction is also an act of creation’
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History
The Hallamshire Hotel was a mecca for Sheffield’s 80s indie music scene. Could it be again?
‘The disquieting air of a David Lynch film’
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Give it a Gardeners Rest!: The thorny history of our only community-run pub
‘Some of the things that were said and some of the things that happened were probably insurmountable’
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Why does this city have so few Jews?
‘Sheffield is probably one of the safest places I have felt being Jewish’
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Rising from the Graves: digging into the history of Sheffield’s biggest park
‘I always felt it was something rather special and unusual’
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The legendary garage in the 'lesbian capital of the north'
“It's quite frightening really, that all of that knowledge is held overwhelmingly in men's heads.”
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What did the World Student Games ever do for us?
‘It was beginning of Sheffield turning a corner and reinventing itself’
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The other 9/11
‘We never got to know our grandparents — that was taken away from us’
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The steelworks were disappearing, the city was in flux — Berris Conolly captured it all
‘Where the sound of heavy industry could be heard day and night, there was now near silence’
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Peach and the giant history: how a Sheffield boy helped a generation fall in love with the past
The story behind the ‘Adventure from history’ Ladybird books
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Tonight we’re going to party (and fight) like it’s 1359
It’s an alcohol-fuelled tradition going back half a millennium — but does the Haxey Hood have links to the history of ritual human sacrifice? We went to find out.
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