“It's quite frightening really, that all of that knowledge is held overwhelmingly in men's heads.”
‘It was beginning of Sheffield turning a corner and reinventing itself’
‘We never got to know our grandparents — that was taken away from us’
‘Where the sound of heavy industry could be heard day and night, there was now near silence’
The story behind the ‘Adventure from history’ Ladybird books
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.