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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